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Yesterday (Easter Sunday) everything is mostly shut - so figured the Luton Greenhouse Sauna would be good since it is one of the few options available. It was Bear's Sunday (last sunday of the month) and I got there about 3pm. The crowd was on the older side and skewing more to hippo than bear, but as afternoon turned to early evening things improved a lot. Upstairs, drinking a beer watching the porn, I noticed someone was eyeing me up. This guy had what I would describe as a rugby player type build. Not lean muscle but heavy muscle under a layer of insulation. Enough to make his frame look impressive but with a softer contour - without the hard knobbly bits. So the chase is on. He leaves the room with a glance back to follow, but by the time I wend my way around the occupants to exit I can't see where he went... so I wander a bit and can't see him anywhere. I guess he's in a private room with someone else. A bit later he's back in the porn room making eyes again so this time I'm more ready - it's me who leaves and signals him to follow. Only this time all the private rooms are taken... so we end up in one of the rooms with a big viewing window for guys to watch. He's clearly not bothered either and we quickly get lost in each other and forget about everyone else. Now, I'm a little reticent as I'm just back from Berlin and still a bit bruised from past shenanigans at Lab. and The Bull. Fortunately he's endowed long and not too girthy but it's hard as steel. And he knows how to use it... After several switches in position and technique he tells me he's gonna shoot, so I ask him to shoot deep inside... After a few final violent thrusts he's done and we break to see a crowd of faces peering through the window. We agree on a shower and a beer in the bar. We chat over a beer and swap anecdotes about the sauna and some of the guys. I'm ready to relax in the jacuzzi so I head there and get settled. After a few minutes he comes and joins me - and it's obvious he is up for round two. Here's where I am glad I use vaseline as it stays in place in the jacuzzi and doesn't wash off. We fucked in there for a bit, but the other occupants didn't seem too happy, so we headed to the darkroom behind the jacuzzi and continued the fun there. Much like before he just had an insatiable appetite and kept going - position after position. Some of the other guys in the darkroom wanted to join in and I am sure one did at some point as it felt very different for a while - both the shape and the technique. In the end I was quite sore and asked if he was close. He grinned and said he'd plant it deep again. And he did. Now I was really done - there wasn't going to be a round three for sure! Today everything is quite sore and bruised - and a constant reminder of a fun Easter Sunday.

Sounds totally plausible, but then you Tweeted all those pics of yourself at SOP... so gotcha! (I'll stop now, I promise)

Because of the 70 who signed up on BBRT: 20 Have a sick pet that needs to be taken to the vet urgently 12 Have an elderly relative that needs help 15 Have a sudden cold / food poisoning/ tummy bug / other illness 10 Had a flat battery on their phone and left their charger at home 7 Had a water leak or other domestic emergency 3 Partied too much and now can't get hard 2 Turned up but fancy the guy in the room up the corridor more. 1 Guy who's only up for proving he's more of a bottom than you are. (Maybe I'm just too jaded and cynical for this anymore 😜)

There's fourkinds of Skinheads in my mind: Men who are losing the battle with a receeding hairline or thinning out on top who embrace shaving their head to get back on top of their masculinity again. They might also embrace other parts of the Skinhead style to justify/compliment it. Gay men who fetishise the skinhead look and strut their stuff in 30 hole Rangers and Bleacher at the fetish clubs and parties. (True skins laugh at them...) Then there are those who embrace the community, culture and lifestyle proper. They know that being a skinhead involves more than shaving your head and wearing bleachers bought at Mr B.. Now those guys I have time for. Back a few years there were several national gay skinhead groups. A Belgian group organised regular events in Antwerp - which included a long week end of events organised around the Oink Bar and the Boots. They were great and a 30 Euro ticket got you into all the events, breakfast buffet at The Oink every day and a BBQ in the evening. And the events played proper Skinhead music - no pop or techno. They guys were great. I made so many friends there and always had a great time. Different groups organise similar things, but none were a patch those. Today I'm no longer a mohawk sporting skinhead - but I'm still friends with those that are and am still accepted as a part of the community. The fourth kind are the right wing ones. They might look hot with their hyper masculine looks but they're toxic in a bad way. Best avoided.

My kryptonite is trampling. Sneakers. Boots. Cleats (football and baseball). Running spikes. When a top/dom/sadist knows how to bring you right to the edge of what you can tolerate and then gradually push you by mixing pleasure and pain it's amazing. A good session has you begging and hungry for more. It's a real skill and not many have it. That tightly controlled situation involves the top reading the sub and constantly adjusting. Both parties really need to be sober for it to work, otherwise you have to leave a large safety margin and the dynamic only works properly when you're right on the very edge.

After everything reopened post C19 a friend and I decided we'd visit every gay sauna (bathhouse) in the UK outside central London. Most were do-able in a day trip. Some required an overnight stay. Discovered some hidden gems like Touch in Swindon and Newport Greenhouse. Some that were not so good like CumUnion in Sheffield which was very un-Cumunion like. I did think about writing it all up as a guide - maybe that's still worth doing? I've also travelled to Birmingham for a weekend to go to Boltz and stayed in the city. A couple of weeks ago I went to Roadworks at Bunker in London and booked an overnight hotel close by as the trains were not running. I've done Antwerp for a long weekend to go to events at The Boots. And of course Berlin - although I avoid the big parties like BLF and Folsom as they're full of tourists looking to get fucked.

Vaseline first, usually when preparing beforehand as it doesn't get washed out so easily during clean out. Then a small amount again as a base-coat when I arrive at the sauna/club/darkroom. Love the idea that it is unfriendly to latex. Addition of water/silicon lube or spit as needed - seems to make it last longer and provide some lubrication when the waterbased stuff is absorbed or dries out. Have given up on Crisco as it just leaves an awful mess behind.

Have been thinking about this since reading the Tearoom Trade - except for Hampstead heath, I can't think of any UK places that are remotely as busy as described. Activity on squirt.org seemed to suggest the British Library in Euston was the most active spot, and worth a visit. I've been a few times and never encountered anything. I wonder if UK tearooms/cottages have been made extinct by online apps? Anyone know of anywhere (uk) that's busy? I also think that all the tearooms/cottages have succumbed to CCTV etc. There are a few spots around of cruisey woodlands but even these are falling foul of surveillance. Bottrell's lane near Amersham has a trailer parked up with a pole and an array of cameras, ANPR and motion detectors, which has been there for about six months now monitoring the comings and goings. (Takes me back to the 90's when local police would take down number plates of cars at the local gay pubs and clubs (The Greyhound in Colnbrook in particular) to match them up with cars found parked in cruising spots.)

[think before following links] https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/357/Tearoomtrade.pdf

I hope you were able to navigate this situation and help him out... Without breaking confidentiality, are you able to say how it turned out in the end ?

I tend to use Romeo when travelling to mainland Europe - typically for me FR/BE/NL/DE/CZ/PL where it seems to be the go-to app most people use. It's good enough that I don't mind paying for the subscription and the search tools are very good. Many profiles are written in non-english so it helps to know local terms and slang for what you're looking for. On my Mac/iPhone it is easy to online translate but no guarantee that someone will understand if you message them! In the UK it isn't so popular - its just about okay in very big cities.

I use NordVPN - just checked it and I it still works - I logged out, connected to VPN (UK Server #1918) and was able to log in and use BBRT without issue. I tried again with other servers and it worked fine. Probably logging out before connecting to the VPN might be a good idea. Likely also keeping in the same country helps too. I note that Microsoft locks me out of my online accounts and makes me re-verify them if my IP address changes country, which is a pain when travelling. Some VPN providers and servers are banned because they attract misuse. NordVPN seems to be fine for me.

Xmas Eve: just got back from the sauna. Was kinda quiet but sometimes that pays off... I had hopes for having fun with a guy who had a scorpion tattoo on his back just above his butt... but it wasn't to be. Instead I got cruised by a really nice rugby build guy - muscular but with soft edges. We started off upstairs in one sling and then the other, which was more comfortable for him as it was less high. We switched locations and fucked in the gym, the darkroom, and the jacuzzi-spa. I'm not quiet when getting railed, so we drew a small crowd each time. He had tons of stamina and I was glad of a short break each time we switched locations. Since it was getting close to closing time (7pm since it was xmas eve) we went upstairs to the sling again for a grand finale. After he finished (second load from him) I stayed in the sling for a while hoping others who hadn't dropped their loads already might want to do so before closing. Put the towel over my face so I couldn't see and stayed a while to see what happens. Not long before I felt probing fingers and then a cock. Decided not to peek and let things happen... it could have been any one of about five or six guys who were left. Whoever it was didn't last long, which I was grateful for as the previous guy had been unrelenting and I was a bit sore. Now I'm home and looking back it is very horny thought that I'll never know who that was. Anon can mean just not knowing who they are but not seeing them at all is a whole new level and one I plan to revisit.

Past few years I've done NYE in Berlin. I don't do the big parties - I just stuck around Motzstrasse and Fuggerstrasse. The bars with darkrooms don't really get going until after midnight, and some are still busy until lunchtime on new year's day. New years day a lot of stuff is closed, so Connection is usually very good - it's a good setup.

I went to Sheffield in early 2023 for CumUnion and it was not worth the journey - the sauna did nothing to promote it as a CumUnion event and it seemed like just a regular evening. They didn't make any effort to play bareback porn on the TVs and people I spoke to there didn't know about CumUnion. Similar experience in Northwich - the CumUnion event coincided with their naked event and they were pushing that and there was no mention of CumUnion at the venue. I've not been since as it's not worth the drive up anymore.