Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:55:48 -0500
From: M N <vngam@hotmail.com>
Subject: Not A Matter of Choice: Part 2- "But you can't be gay"

Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to write to me and
encourage me to continue with my trip down memory lane.  Again, some of the
names have been changed, but the situations are all true.  I have
appreciated the feedback and hearing how your lives were the same
as/different than mine.  For those who don't want to read about M/M teen
incest, then skip this chapter, or at least the first part.  There's not
much sex in this installment, but I promise I'll get to it in the next
chapter.  I'll also get to some adult relationships next time as the story
carries me into my adult years.


Not a Matter of Choice

Part 2: "But you can't be gay!"

"Mom, Dad, I'm gay."  That was a pretty momentous statement for a twelve
year old to make.  But I knew it to be the truth.

My parents looked at me for a while, not knowing how to respond to my
bombshell.  Or maybe they've always known.  What they said though was, "But
you can't be gay!"  They then proceeded to tell me how it was against God
and nature.  No one in the family was gay (actually, my cousin on my
father's side of the family is, I found out much later).  Blah, blah, blah.
I honestly can't say any more what the specifics of the conversation were,
but that was the gist.  We spoke for a long time, but I think I blocked it
out of my memory.  I just know that I knew in my heart that I was attracted
to guys, and there was nothing my parents could do to change that.  After
our long surreal conversation, my parents told me to go to bed because it
was getting quite late, and we would discuss this another time.

I don't think we brought up the topic again.  I'm sure they hoped it was
just a phase I was going through.  I wish I had kept a journal of that
turning point in my life when I came to terms with my sexuality and outted
myself to my parents.  But alas, all I have are my spotty memories.  What I
do know is that just because my parents told me I couldn't be gay did not
change the fact that I enjoyed looking at men.  So, my teen years were just
like that of other teens—discovering and figuring out all this sex stuff.
I graduated from masturbation when I started to mess around with my cousin.

My cousin Johnny was my maternal aunt's son, only ten days younger than I
was.  We did not live close to each other, but we did get to hang out
together not infrequently.  He was closer in age to me than my brother, so
we did more things together, which I'm sure made my brother jealous.  I was
selfish at the time, so I didn't care what my brother thought.  One day
when I was 13 or so, when Johnny was at my house with only my brother there
with us, I asked him to come into the master bed room to show him
something.

Earlier in the week, I had discovered that my parents kept adult magazines,
a torpedo-shaped dildo, and videos in a locked brief case.  I was at home,
and I happened into my parents' room.  My mother was squatting on the floor
in the closet, going through some things in the brief case.  When she saw
me coming by, she hastily shuffled things around and tried to close the
lid.  Now, a mother should know you should never try to hide something from
a teenager.  If she had not acted so suspiciously, I would not have thought
about it, but since she did, my curiosity took over, and I glanced inside
the brief case.  I caught a quick glimpse of skin on the magazine cover
before she was able to close the lid.  I didn't make an issue of it right
then, but I knew I wanted into that brief case.  When my parents left for
an errand, I snuck into their closet to take a look at the brief case.  It
was a three digit combination lock.  I memorized the number that it started
with, then I turned all the numbers to 000.  I then methodically went
through every number starting at 001 until I found the right number to open
the brief case (530—the prefix of our phone number).  I looted the brief
case, enjoying all the magazines.  They were straight magazines, but at
least there were guys in the pictures.  I stayed away from the dildo
though, not wanting to think too hard about where it had been in the past.
I furiously flogged my cock, coming strongly, cleaned myself up, replaced
all the paraphernalia back into the brief case exactly the way they were
before, and closed the lid, turning the numbers back to their original
position.  I realized that it was likely just a random number that my
parents turned the dials to, but I didn't want to leave any evidence of my
intrusion.

When Johnny accepted my invitation into the room, I closed the door and
locked it.  I then opened the brief case, got out the magazines, and we
enjoyed looking at them.  My parents weren't going to be home in a while,
so I got bolder.  I took one of the videos and popped it into the VCR.  It
was my first look at hard core pornography, and to this day, I have a vivid
memory of the scene.  A 30-something guy wearing a bathrobe was in a
wheelchair with a leg in a cast.  He was lamenting the fact that he was
stuck in the wheelchair and couldn't get out to have sex.  At that point, a
very pretty buxom woman came onto the scene and came up to him.  He opened
up the bottom of his bathrobe and his dick was hard and jutting out.  It
was average length, just a bit over six inches, but it was pretty thick and
cut.  She then knelt between his legs and started to give him a blow job,
going up and down and his dick.  He moaned and encouraged her on with,
"Come on, suck my big dick.  You like sucking my dick don't you?"  Finally,
he said he was going to come, so she pulled away and started to jack him
off until he came, covering her face with his thick white sperm.  Well,
obviously, Johnny and I were both pretty turned on with the scene, and we
decided to try what they had done.  So, we each took turns giving the other
a blow job, trying to emulate what we had seen her do.  I about died when
his warm, wet mouth engulfed my 5 ½ inch dick and started going up and down
on it.  We were turned on and both came quickly.  That was my first time to
have a real blow job.  Now, a few months earlier, Johnny and I had actually
tried giving each other oral sex, but we didn't know how to do it.  We had
both heard about blow jobs, and we knew it had to do with putting your
mouth on a person's dick, but that's it.  So, the one time we had tried it,
I put Johnny's five inch uncircumcised penis in my mouth and _blew_ on it
like I would a balloon.  Then he tried it.  Neither one of us found it very
pleasurable.  But, watching this expert at work, we realized that we had no
idea how to go about it before.  So, when we got the technique down, oral
sex was so much better!

Over the next several months, Johnny and I would find opportunities to
engage in what I now consider as relatively innocent sexual exploration.
We mostly gave each other hand jobs, and we traded blow jobs, but neither
one of us wanted the other to come in his mouth.  Once, Johnny wanted to
stick his dick in my butt, but the aim wasn't good, and I wasn't very
enthusiastic about it either.  It would be my last year in medical school
before I received anal sex.

My brother Tuong knew we were up to some hanky panky, but didn't know how
much.  The three of us had a group jack off session together once or twice,
but I wasn't at all interested in thinking about my brother in any sexual
way.  Johnny's parents were suspicious of our goings on, but they weren't
able to prove it until I slept over their house.  I should have been wary
when his parents suggest that we all sleep in the same room, but I was
naïve.  Plus, I was always horny back then and took every chance I got to
get off.  So, in the middle of the night, when I thought Johnny's parents
were asleep, I coerced Johnny to engage in some sexual fun.  We were quiet
about it, but not quiet enough.  The next morning, I woke up later than
they did, and when I walked out of the room, Johnny's father was chasing
him down the hall, beating him with a belt and yelling at him.  In my
cluelessness, I didn't equate our sexual exploration the night before with
Johnny's beating.  But after that beating, Johnny was not at all interested
in having fun with me anymore.  And then he started hanging out with my
brother almost exclusively, which made me really lonely and jealous.  I
know now that Johnny was trying to distance himself from me because of the
conflict I caused and the fear his father put into him.  All I knew then
was that I lost a good friend, cousin, and sexual playmate.

For Johnny, our sexual exploration was a part of what almost every teen
goes through I think, just blind groping and the releasing of hormones and
pent-up sexual energy.  He grew out of it, started dating women, and that
was the end of the story between me and him.  He's now a physician himself,
and we haven't brought up that episode in our lives in years.  I've kept
those memories of mostly fond times trying to figure out my place in the
world and my sexual attractions.

Although Johnny and I explored some sex together, I wasn't attracted to
Asian men.  I really was attracted to Caucasians, particularly those with
lighter complexions.  I used to wish I could have blond hair and blue eyes.
The middle school crushes I had were all white boys.  One of my first that
I admitted to myself was a guy named Kevin Galloway.  Kevin and I were in
the orchestra together.  He was shorter than I was, around 4'8" when I met
him, and 5'4" to my 5'6" when we finished our growth spurts in eighth
grade.  Kevin had brown, slightly wavy hair, a bit of a pug nose, and
freckles underneath startlingly green eyes.  His crooked smile and
mischievous grin, cocky attitude, and ready comeback completed a package I
found hard to resist.  Unfortunately, he was as straight as an arrow.  I
tried to figure out once if he had any gay tendencies at all by folding up
a gay picture I had ripped out of a magazine and hiding it in a corner in
the orchestra room.  I called him over and pretended that I had just found
it and wanted to show him.  When he saw it, he scoffed at it and walked
off.  I was supremely disappointed.  I asked him once in seventh grade how
big his dick was, and he replied, "Big enough."

"How big?"  I asked him.

"Well, average, I guess."

"Well, what do you think is average?"

"Six inches," he replied.

"Oh, ok."  So now I knew he was about as big as I was.  I didn't ever
actually get to see it though.  Kevin and I didn't go to the same high
school after middle school, so we lost touch with each other.

Although Kevin was one of my first crushes, it wasn't the one that got me
into the most trouble.  That prize would have to go to Nathan Thomson.  I
met Nate in seventh grade at a church my aunt had invited me to.  It was a
very small church that met in a day care center that was set up for church
every Sunday morning and taken down at the end of service.  The first guys
my age I met at the church were fraternal twins, Ryan and Jason Mooney.
Ryan and Jason stood about the same height at 5'8" to my 5'6" with lean cut
builds I equate with Navy seals.  They both wore their hair short, Ryan's a
dark brown and Jason with a good deal of red cut through.  I really enjoyed
talking to them at church, and their father took all of us to lunch
afterwards and then to a church member's house for dessert.  It was there
that I first laid eyes on Nate.

Nathan was the pastor's middle child, Nate was the tallest and most well
built out of the three, standing at 5'11", with short sandy blonde hair,
hazel eyes that squinted when he smiled, and a booming laugh.  He also had
shoulders a mile wide and big `ole guns due to his many years in
competitive swimming.  I confess when I saw him, I was smitten.  They were
all three very sexy, but Nate took the cake.

It was evident that Nate, Ryan, and Jason had been friends for a while, as
they cut up and joked around constantly.  The four of us spent hours that
afternoon discussing various aspects of Christianity, and it seemed I was
readily accepted into the group.  We all lived pretty close to one another,
so we started hanging out more.

New Year's Eve, a couple from the church invited all of us to their country
home to sleep over and bring in the new year.  The four of us went along
with my brother; my cousin Johnny joined us later in the day.  We roamed
the countryside on some bikes and horsed around.  I won't bore you with the
details.  We played with sparklers, had hot cocoa and eventually went to
bed.  The house was not that big, so we all piled into a room, spread out
our sleeping bags, and fell asleep.

I was the first one in the room to wake up in the early morning hours.  I
listened to the quiet breathing in the room, and I realized that I was
sleeping right next to Nathan.  I as always was horny, and I had morning
wood.  I decided to attempt a risky venture.  Very slowly, I reached my
hand out of the sleeping bed and gently laid my hand by Nate's crotch,
barely touching the sleeping bag.  I was getting really turned on at this
point and was leaking copious amounts of precum.  So, I went one step
further.  I found the opening to Nate's sleeping bag and carefully slipped
my hand inside.  I landed somewhere near his stomach, and I worked my hand
downwards to his crotch, my touch light as a feather.  I made it to the
Spot, and Nate definitely had a bulge there, a sizable one at that.  I
wanted to cup his dick and balls in my hands, but Nate started to stir
slightly.  I decided not to push my luck, so I withdrew my hand, got it
back into my sleeping bag, beat off furiously, and came all over my hand.
I cleaned myself off as best I could and dozed off for a while longer.
Nathan never found out about my illicit activity then, but he did find out
when I tried it a few years later, and that's when then shit hit the fan.
I'll tell that story later.

Over the next few years, I got to know the Thomson and Mooney families very
well, along with the other members at the church.  Shortly after going to
the church, I decided to switch my religion from Buddhism to Christianity.
When I was eleven, my uncle was tending his convenient store late at night
when two teenagers came in with a sawed off shotgun, shot him in the
stomach, left him there to die, and escaped with $44 from the cash
register.  That tragedy caused me to start asking all the tough questions
in life.  Is there a God?  Is there any justice in this world?  What is the
meaning of life?  I started looking for answers in the Buddhist religion,
but the more I looked, the fewer answers I got.  When I started going to
church and looked at Christian doctrine, overall it seemed to ring true in
my heart.  There was one thing that the church taught that I had a big
problem with though: homosexuality was an abomination to God.  The church
taught strict sexual purity, and even masturbation was wrong because you
had fantasies and lusted in your heart when you masturbated.

So, to be a good Christian, I tried with all my heart to keep from
fantasizing or masturbating.  It would never work though, and eventually, I
would give in to my carnal desires and masturbate again, feeling guilty
afterwards.  Still, as I got to know Nate more, I became more and more
attracted to him emotionally and sexually.  We were all pretty comfortable
with hugging one another and putting our arms around each other, but they
were all brotherly hugs, and I wanted more.  One time, my brother walked
into my room and caught me and Nate lying in my twin bed, spooned into each
other.  We had our clothes on, and it was not sexual, but it flustered my
brother and he walked out quickly.

Because Nate and I spent more and more time together, I started seeing him
in various states of undress.  He was extremely athletic and even had a
shot at being in the Olympics, but he lost his chance when he developed
mono right before the national tryouts and didn't place high enough.  By
the time he was in high school, Nate was 6'1", and if he was good looking
in middle school, he became just short of godly in high school.  I
absolutely loved seeing Nate with only his skin-tight skimpy speedos on, or
better yet, naked.  Breast stroke and butterfly were his two favorite
strokes, so he had lats that looked more like wings, they were so well
developed.  And his six-pack abs... you could wash clothes on that
washboard!  And the icing on the cake was his sizable cock.  It was about
five inches and thick, hanging down from a blond bush with nice hefty
balls.  He was cut, with a slightly tapered head.  I would sneak peeks at
his body when he was getting out of the shower or any chance I got.  What I
wouldn't have given to suck on that piece of meat!  Once, when we were
talking smack, we decided to compare erections.  I'm about 6 ½" hard, which
is average for a white guy but a bit above average for an Asian.  Nate's
however was around 8 1/2", and my fingers just barely made it around the
shaft.  His cock head flared outward just a bit and tapered towards the
end.  He was a bit reluctant to let me touch it to measure it, as he knew
at that time I was gay, but he let me hold the ruler up to his hard on to
get a good measurement.  That was the only time I saw it hard, and I didn't
even get to see him come.

In tenth grade, I joined the high school diving team.  I started out as a
terrible diver, but I had a good work ethic, so I worked my butt off to get
better at the sport.  One definitely positive thing was that all the
swimmers and divers spent hours in nothing but speedos, so no one had any
self consciousness.  We'd shower together and horse around, and every day,
I would have dozens of boys walking around naked, all of them incredibly
well toned from hours in the pool.  I don't know how many times I lusted
over those hot bodies, but I never got a chance to do anything with them.
I was incredibly in the closet through my high school and college years, so
I couldn't share my attractions with anyone.  When Nate would come in for
his afternoon practice, I would jump off the diving board, talk to him for
a bit, and we'd go to our separate practices.  The other divers noticed
this of course, but they didn't say anything.  Once, when I was a senior, I
started developing an interest in a diver named Matt a few years younger
than me.  He was short, very funny, and a trouble maker.  I would hang out
with him at his house and sort of go out of my way to develop a friendship.
Once, when we were in his room, he asked me, "Minh, are you gay?"

"No!" I immediately replied and looked down.  I really wanted to say yes,
but I was too afraid word would get out in school, and too ashamed of
myself that I had those secret desires.

Growing up, I was always in terrible conflict about my sexuality.  I knew
that I had lustful thoughts about guys.  But the church taught that
homosexuality was a sin and that if I wanted to be right with God, I needed
to change.  If I just read the Bible enough, pray enough, and ask God to
change me, He would do that and I could have sexual attractions to women,
marry someone, and have a family.  And I also saw how my classmates would
use the word "gay" as a derogatory term, and I didn't want that.  Things
came to a head when Nate caught me groping him one night when he slept
over.

I had a very small room, enough for only a twin bed, small book case, and a
desk.  So, the few times Nate spent the night, he would often just sleep in
the twin bed with me.  We would turn on our sides and fall asleep after
staying up until the wee hours talking about nothing the way teenagers do.
One night, I was sleeping against the wall and Nate was spooned up against
me.  I casually reached over, put my hand on his crotch, left it there for
a minute, and then took it off.  I don't even think I got to feel anything.
When I woke up in the morning, Nate was sleeping on the floor.  I didn't
think that much of it, since it was a twin bed, and he was a big guy.  But
over the next several weeks, he was pretty distant towards me.  I didn't
really know what was up, but I didn't push it.

One Sunday before church, Nate and Ryan asked to meet me out on a country
road.  When I got there and met them, Nate asked me if I had touched him
inappropriately that night in my room.  Instead of trying to deny it, I
told him the truth.  That's when Nate and Ryan pushed me down, called me a
faggot, stripped off all my clothes, and beat the crap out of me.  No, I'm
just kidding, they didn't do that.  Nathan did something far worse: he told
his father, my pastor, about the incident.

Nate and Ryan said that they were still my friends, and they wanted to help
me change and turn away from my sin.  They not only told Pastor Thomson
about my situation, they mentioned it to our high school Sunday School
teacher Tom Sanders, with whose family I had enjoyed a wonderfully close
relationship for years.  Tom and Nancy after that never trusted me to be
alone with any of their six children, and when I went to visit the family
once while in medical school, Tom told me straight out to stay away from
his boys.  I haven't spoken to the Sanders since.

Shortly after Nathan told his father, I got a summons into the pastor's
room.  He then set up a series of counseling sessions with me to help me
beat this demon of homosexuality.  We went through all the Bible passages
regarding homosexuality and how it was abhorrent to God.  We read how
homosexuals would not enter into God's kingdom.  Pastor Thomson explained
to me that through his extensive reading of Scripture and his counseling of
others in my situation, he came to the understanding that my homosexuality
stemmed from an unloving attitude towards a significant female member in my
life, most likely my mother.  Because of my deeply unforgiving spirit
towards my mother, I unconsciously X'd out all women in my life.  When I
started puberty and my hormones started to flow, I could not connect with
women because I had blocked off that channel, so the only place I could
turn to were men.  So if I could learn to have a more loving attitude and
forgiving spirit, especially to my mother, that blockage would be cleared,
and I would suddenly have the natural sexual urges towards women as my
homosexual urges faded away.

Well, I really tried to do that.  The pastor was a person I deeply admired
and respected, and I knew that he had helped many others with their sin
issues.  I was sure he was right about me, and it was my fault somehow that
I was having these unnatural urges.  If I could just do the right thing,
allow God to work more fully in my life, I would start having sexual
feelings towards women, and I would not fantasize about men.  But, no
matter how much I tried, I couldn't do it.  I _never_ had sexual thoughts
about women.  I knew then that I was a failure in God's eyes, and He must
not love me or care about me as much as other people since I had fasted and
prayed and begged God to take this burden away from me, all to no avail.
So, on the outside, I was a very studious high school student with
phenomenal grades and a model Christian young man, but inside, I was
tortured and depressed.  I came close to committing suicide several times.
I thought that it would be easier to end the pain I felt rather than
continue to live this life of lies.

When I graduated high school, I went Rice University, one of the nation's
top schools right in Houston.  It was in Rice that my conflict just got
worse as I immersed myself in my Christian faith and at the same time had
numerous anonymous sexual encounters.