Magnus weaved through the drunken crowds on the subway platform. He skipped the escalator, preferring to take the steps two at a time before emerging into the long blue twilight typical of Stockholm summer nights. The air was eerily still for the windy city and already saturated with the smell of beer and cigarettes. He continued his steady, determined pace past a group of laughing young women with long hair and short skirts. They eyed him up and down and smiled with approval. A tall brunette reached out and grabbed a corner of Magnus’s leather jacket. He turned around, slightly irritated.
“Hey” she purred pulling him to her. She caressed the lapels of his jacket between her thumbs and forefingers admiring the contrast of her long red nails against the soft black leather. He grasped her wrists firmly but gently and pulled her hands away from his broad chest. He smiled kindly in an attempt to mask his irritation before giving her a quick peck on the cheek and striding away. The brunette sighed and enjoyed the sight of his tight ass in even tighter denim until he turned up Wollmar Yxkullsgatan. There was only one club up that street and it was men only.
Magnus approached the wide industrial door; the SLM logo etched into the metal. It had been years since his last visit to the Scandinavian Leather Men Club and he’d never been on a Sunday. He paused for a moment, scanning the door trying to remember how to get in. A skinny ginger in athletic gear, a gym bag slung over his shoulder, strode up and pressed the small silver buzzer to the left of the door. The latch clicked and the ginger pulled opened the door. Magnus followed him in. It took a moment for his eyes to adjust to the sudden darkness.
He found himself once again at the top of the concrete stairwell with wide, wooden stairs leading down to the dungeon. Five years of monogamy had passed since he last walked down those steps. He grinned and headed down. Each step felt like a breath of newfound freedom. The worn wooden check-in counter was exactly as he remembered as was the chubby, naked man behind it who checked his membership card.
“You’ll find gloves, lube and Crisco in and to the left,” the man directed.
That’s new, thought Magnus. But then again, he’d never been to the SLM on the third Sunday of the month. He pulled a red bandana from his jacket pocket and stuffed it halfway into the back left pocket of his stone-washed jeans. He then handed the jacket over the counter with a wink and walked into the dimly lit dungeon wearing a tight black t-shirt. The red bandana wasn’t necessary. It was more of a nod to the old school hanky codes. But the SLM was like that—all old school gay from the strict fetish-oriented dress-code to the Tom of Finland posters behind the coat-check counter and the rough cut glory holes in the bathroom. A small laminated poster to the right of the dark room provided a hanky code color key for the uninitiated—red for fisting, left side for active. Magnus liked that. It cut down on unnecessary chit chat.
The deep vibes of electronic trance music pulsed through the dungeon. In and to the left was a small metal table covered in little plastic cups of Crisco, clear condiment bottles half-filled with lube and a couple open boxes of latex gloves. Magnus helped himself to a pair of medium-sized black gloves. After further consideration, he helped himself to a second set. He shoved both pairs into the back pocket next to the bandana and headed over to the bar. At one end of the bar stood three thirty-somethings, including the ginger from outside who now leaned against an oversize chain suspended between the ceiling and the floor. Ginger had stripped down to a neon pink jockstrap and the other two wore Spandex wrestling kits—with the asses cut out.
At the small round tables in the shadows sat solitary men pushing 50, dressed in leather or the basic denim and black, slowly sipping their beers. One had a silver crewcut and matching stubble. He locked eyes with Magnus. Magnus held his gaze long enough to indicate more than indifference, but less than an invitation: a possibility. He’d order a beer first and then make a round.
A screen mounted near the ceiling behind the bar played silent porn. Magnus’s eyes settled on the screen as a grizzly bartender in a black leather vest poured him a lager from the tap. On the screen a power bottom wearing nothing but cowboy boots bent over a wool blanket draped on a straw bale. A naked cowboy with a black Stetson hat and farmer’s tan kneeled on the bale straddling the power bottom; both smooth, toned asses faced the camera. Black Stetson grabbed a handful of his mount’s sweaty blond mane in one hand and reached back to slide his other hand between his mount’s slicked up ass. Stetson’s hand slid gently up to the top of his ass, paused, then pressed in harder and slid slowly down. Fingers together and straight—the tips firmly circled the ring of the bottom’s tight asshole. The bottom’s dick was pressed down against the wool blanket, the red head peeking out from under two heavy, hairless balls. Magnus felt his own cock stiffen against his jeans. The cowboy’s glistening thumb disappeared into the bottom’s ass and immediately a bead of pre-cum pushed out the tip of his cock. The bottom let out a low guttural moan and the chains clinked.
Wait…chains? Magnus blinked and heard the clinking of chains again. A second moan escaped the adjoining room. The three jocks stopped chatting amongst themselves and looked over with interes as well. It sounded like the evening’s activities were getting off to a solid start. Magnus leaned back on the barstool and peered around the corner. Two bare legs covered in a thick carpet of light grey curls stuck up in the air forming an eager V; each heel hooked over a black leather loop hanging from the ceiling. The legs lead down to a man in his mid-fifties swaying back and forth in a worn leather sling suspended on four metal chains. A younger, darker partner stood between his legs with his right hand already buried in curly-haired ass up to his wrist. His left hand rested on the older man’s chest gently squeezing and rolling one of his pale pink nipples between his dark thumb and fingers. The man in the sling reminded Magnus of his boss. The thought brought a sly smile to his lips. If only old, married milquetoast Jakob really did visit gay sex clubs to be fist-fucked by a younger, presumably African, lover. He grabbed his beer and headed in for a closer look.
Jakob was an incredibly dull professor of veterinary medicine who ended up as the head of the large animal hospital in Uppsala on account of no one else willing to commit to that level of paperwork and bureaucratic headaches. Magnus often wondered how it was possible for a man to be so entirely devoid of passion, Jakob was even boring in the coffee room and a lunch. As far as Magnus could tell his only hobby was birdwatching and he ate the same sad meatballs, boiled potatoes and peas every day. He circled around the young fist-fucker until got a good look at the other man’s face and then quickly retreated into the shadows behind the sling. There was no doubt about it. Magnus wasn’t the only one who had traveled to Stockholm from Uppsala tonight. He took a long sip of his beer and leaned back against the grey cement wall in disbelief.
The thought that he might run into a student or the owner of one of his canine or feline patients had briefly crossed his mind on the train to Stockholm that night. But it was a Sunday and a very particular fetish night at a very particular club; what were the chances? Now he wondered for a moment if he should look somewhere else or move-on to another room. But he couldn’t tear his eyes away the top of his boss’ shiny bald head reflecting the dungeon’s red lighting as the sling swung toward him with every slow, deliberate thrust.
Jakob’s moans slid out with increasing intensity. Magnus found his cock responding despite the butterflies fluttering in his stomach. He watched as sweat beaded on the young black man’s forehead and dripped down onto Jakob’s pale, hairy chest. Magnus felt a pang of horniness, longing to slide his own fingers into a tight warm hole and feel that familiar throbbing clench around his wrist. It had been so long since the last time. The closest he got to his ex’s ass was the occasional rim job. For years he thought he would never again feel the incredible power of a man’s orgasm gripping his cock, or even better, his entire fist. What would it be like to trade places with this guy and feel his boss’s body tremble as he sank his hand deep inside him?