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Sex.
    The great obsession.
    These are the stories of my lives.  
    Its permutations of cocks and cunts, holes and moans and slick
fluids.
    The Internet affords me an opportunity to cater to a virtual
exhibitionism.  I am able to fuck and get fucked in public.  There is
no kinky activity I have to hide away for fear that my "normal"
friends would consider me a deviant reprobate.  All of us voyeurs can
watch as I relive Strangesex and expose all of the perverse things
that I have done and that have been done to me - things that I have
never told anybody.     All of the stories written here are true. 
They have been eroticized to appeal to a wide audience, but the the
actual "scenarios" happened.
    This is the continuing adventure that I have already chronicled in
"My Sex Life" #1 thru #26 or #27 or so - under the authorship of
im_sub@hotmail.com
    I no longer have any copies of these escapades, but they can be
found at Google Groups by doing a power search for the author
IM_Sub@hotmail.com  Except for the chapters that can't be found and
are lost in cyberspace.   If anyone has these missing chapters, feel
free to email them to me at Strangesub@yahoo.com
   Otherwise, don't ask, because I don't have.
   If you would like to comment on these stories, criticize them, or
whatever, send inquiries to strangesub@yahoo.com
 
                                StrangeSex#2
   I hitchhiked back to school Sunday afternoon thoroughly fucked out
and feeling really good about myself.  I obviously wasn't just gay or
just a pervert or just anything.  I was a highly sexed guy with
multiple partners, mutiple girlfriends, and multiple orgasms!!!  Hot
Damn!!!
   After several rides, I was picked up by a businessman - probably in
his late thirties.  Nice car, sharp dresser, suit, tie and cashmere
overcoat, except that he also had two other hitchhikers that were
dozing in the back seat.  It was sort of incongruous because both of
them had the "on the road" look about them.  One had a big, black
beard, long shaggy hair and lumberjack type clothes.   He was a large,
burly fellow.  The other was well built with brown hair, clean shaven
and, from what I could see, pretty good looking.   His clothes were
from the road too, but more "LL Bean."
        Anyway, the guy picked me up and as the other two were
sleeping,he wanted to talk with me to keep him alert and awake, a
desire that I am very familiar with.  His name was Jerry.  It turned
out that the two other
guys had been traveling with him for a day or so and would end up
getting off at the same North South interstate interchange that I was
hoping to get to.  They were going to go South, while I would be
heading  North.  We talked about this and that and then he asked me
about my ring.
        I had bought Pamela and I two identical rings awhile ago. 
They were silver with a naked man and woman intertwined in an erotic
embrace circling the ring.  To most people, it just looked like a
abstract
design unless they looked at it closely.  He noticed it from the
driver's seat and asked to look at it.  I had no problem with that and
handed it to him to see up close.  After examining the ring (while
driving), he gave it back and the conversation turned to art, erotica
and human sensuality.
      Because I was so full of myself, I was easily drawn out into
graphic descriptions of my weekend shaving and fucking Pamela and
Alice.  After I described how we all had our genitalia shaved (I
didn't mention that mine had been done by an old married guy who
enjoyed pissng on me), he got real interested.
        "Let me show you something, Greg" he said.
        As i watched, Jerry opened his coat, unbuttoned and unzipped
his pants and pulled out a hard, fat cock.
        "Uh, Jerry," I whispered, still watching as he slipped his
pants and underwear down, exposing what was a massively thick, five or
six inch long cock and totally hairless pubes - "What about them?"
        I indicated the still dozing hitchhikers with a toss of my
head.
        "They're queer," he said with a small smile.  "What do you
think?
        He took one hand and pulled his proportionately huge naked
balls up from between his legs and squeezed his oversized member.  God
it was thick. It wasn't that long, but man, it was probably as fat as
any cock I had ever seen.
        "N-nice," I stuttered.
        "Let's see yours," he said.
        Of course.
  Why not, I thought... 
  That's what I do...
  Unfucking believable....
  And I opened up my pants, exposing my, now hard, six inch naked
meat.
   "Nice," he echoed and grasped my shaft, rubbing some of the already
oozing pre-cum on my pulsing head.
   "Ooooooooh," I sighed as I laid back and let him play with my
turgid flesh.
   He ran his hand over my shaved pubic area, grasping my balls and
shoving his fingers down between my thighs and pushing on the sentive
area between my balls and asshole.   I wondered if the hitchhikers
were
really homos and if not, what were they going to say or do....
   "Have you ever been fucked by a guy," asked Jerry, as he stroked my
hot meat.
   "No,"  I lied, remembering the pain involved.  And it had only been
that one time...  And Darcie and Kara didn't really count....  " I
think it would hurt too much."
   "How about this," he asked, moving his hand up to my head, stroking
my long red hair, and pulling me down gently, but firmly to the
engorged beef sticking up from his lap.
        "Mmmmmm," I murmurred, stretching my lips around his massive
fuck tool and drawing him into my mouth.
        "You know," he said conversationally, as he pushed his cock
into my face, guiding my head with his hand, " I'm not gay, but I've
always wanted to fuck another straight guy in the ass.
   I trembled as I thought of him fucking me with the fat log that was
being forced into my comparatively small mouth.  My dick was pulsing
with lust.
       "Are you really shaved all over?" asked Jerry
        "Yeah,"  I mumbled around the thick dick blocking my face.
        Easing the pressure on the back of my neck, Jerry lifted my
face off of his fat schlong.
        "Why don't you take off your clothes and let me see? I'd like
that." he said with a touch of command in his voice.
        Now, I still couldn't really believe that our two sleepers
were gay, but the words "take off your clothes" were sweet music to an
exhibitionist pervert such as myself.   I was hot.   I was studly.   I
had
multiple shaved naked girlfriends.   And everybody else wanted to see
my hot, smooth naked bod. I would have laughed at the fact that this
was the exact same request as the last guy who wanted to do me, but it
just seemed like that was the thing to do....  take off my clothes....
 Fuck yes!
        I slid my pants the rest of the way off, removing my sneakers
and socks with them.  Then I pulled off my shirt,ending up buck naked,
hard and hairless.
  Jerry ran his hand over my smooth chest and nipples, stroking my
belly and grasping my stiff rod again.
        "Damn, that's nice," he complimented me as he tapped my boner
with his fingers, caressing my silky flesh.
        "C'mon down here again," he said, once more putting his hand
on my neck and guiding me to his obese cock.
        He scooted his pants farther down as I took his fat flesh into
my mouth again.  My naked body squirmed on the front seat, my
shuddering meat rubbing against the vinyl.  I was so turned on.  I was
lying there ass naked tasting another man's bald penis while driving
down the interstate.  My pulsating cock sent thrills of degraded
raunch through me.  The thought occurred that I had to get Pamela to
do this, or maybe Janie.  God, I bet Darcie would love it.  While
Jerry was pumping my oral cavity, stretching my lips with his thick
manflesh, I imagined  Darcie, her short black body naked on the front
seat while  giving a blow job to the driver and getting fucked from
the other side. Forbidden erotic images of my brothers came to mind. 
I panted and drooled on Jerry's genitals as I put my ass up in the air
and swayed, pretending old Mr. Sanders was finally fucking me with his
big meat.  I was loving this - Greggy Moran, cock slut to the world.
        When I felt another hand on my naked ass, caressing my flesh,
I knew that the passengers were awake and either they were gay or they
were just
enjoying our little dance.
        "How do you do this, Jerry?" one of them asked as a hand
snaked down my ass crack to fondle my hanging balls.  "You have some
kind of queer radar?"
        "I want to know where we are going," said another voice, "this
is sure as hell not the interstate."
        "We're going to find a place to stop - woods or something,"
said Jerry, his heavy hand still on my neck, still driving his hard
meat into my mouth..
        It was all I could do to accomodate his fat sausage.  If it
would have been longer, it would have been choking me totally, the way
he was pushing my face to its hairless root.
        Another hand started fondling my back and ass.    It felt
great and I guessed that these guys were queer.  Damn,  I figured that
I must have the queer radar - go figure...
        "Aren't you going to introduce us," questioned one of the
fellows.
        "Make your own introductions.  This is Greg and he's straight,
more or less," he said, releasing my neck and pulling me off of his
swollen fuckmeat.
  "We're experimenting.  Right Greg?"
  "Uh... yeah." I moaned, my stiff prick wet with precum fluid.
  "I'm Andrew," said the good looking guy, as he put his face next to
mine, took my chin in his hand and tilted my head back.
   Then he thrust his tongue into my mouth, past my unresisting lips.
  "I'm Steve," said the burly fellow.
  He reached around my naked chest with both hands and grabbed a
nipple between each thumb and forefinger and squeezed.
  My whole body shook and I groaned, trying to raise my bare ass off
of the car seat to lean back as Steven pulled on my sensitive tit
flesh, but Jerry had a hand on my hard cock, bending it back down
towards the seat.
  "Ahhhh, Uhaahhhhh, uh, uh, uh," I moaned into Andrew's mouth as I
became immersed in total sex overdrive - my defenseless form being
attacked by three men.
  Andrew's hot tongue probing my mouth; my nipple flesh being tortured
by Steven's hot hands; Jerry holding onto my throbbing meat, squeezing
and pulling had me squirming on the seat with ecstasy.
  "Hey, he's got to keep me awake," said Jerry to the other two.  "Let
him come back down here.
  Andrew reluctantly let his tongue slide back from my throat, licking
my teeth and lips and face as Jerry pulled me back down to his
pulsating thick tool.
  "See if his ass tastes as good as his mouth" said Steven, sliding
his hands down to my waist and pulling me to me knees, hauling up my
ass to the level of the back seat.
  Andrew immediately began licking my funky asshole, wetting it with
his saliva, probing my anus with his tongue as Jerry passionately
shoved my head down hard on his cock, stretching my lips, jamming it
to the back to my throat.
  I was losing my mind with this new assault on my rear, straining up
to accomodate Andrew's wild tongue. I felt totally out of control,
shuddering and bucking in hedonistic pleasure.
  My asshole was wet with saliva and I could feel Andrew's fingers on
my anus, stretching it open as Jerry continued to ram his cock in and
out of my mouth.   Steven was reaching around again and stroking my
own raging hard on, sliding his fingers over my dripping cockhead,
lubricating my man meat with my own juices. I could feel Andrew
painfully open up my assbud with his thumbs, trying to get his tongue
inside of me.
  "We're gonna stop here," said Jerry, taking his hand off of my head
and pulling over to a wooded section of the deserted road.
  I practically collapsed onto the seat as he turned off the car and
opened the door.
  "Let's get out of the car and into the woods where we have a little
more privacy and space," smiled Jerry as he beckoned me to come out of
the car on the driver's side.
   I woozily crawled across the seat as he gave me a hand and I stood
up outside the car.  Shit.  I was stark naked, still trembling in
sexual passion, my eyes glazed, my breath coming in ragged pants, as
the two other men exited the car and the all surrounded me.  Keeping
their bodies around me in the event of a stray car, we walked into the
woods, me gingerly stepping in my naked feet, until we were screened
from the view of the road.
   Steven opened up his pants and presented me with a half hard
bulbous cock.
   "Let's see you help me a little bit now," as he drew my mouth down
to his organ.
   I encased his rod in my hands and drew him into my mouth, sucking
on his member feeling the fat flesh well and grow.  As I was bent
over, Jerry put his hands on my naked ass and began to open my
asscheeks, working a wet finger into my saliva coated asshole.
  I want to explain that I didn'tt want him to fuck me in the ass, but
Andrew was now playing with my balls and cock and I couldn't even
think of refusal.  Damn.
  Then Jerry removed his finger and I felt the fat head of his cock
pushing at my anus.  He pressed into me, stretching my shithole with
the huge head of his cock.
   Ohhhhhh Fuuuuucknnnn  I moaned around the shaft of the hard man
meat that I was sucking on.
  The erotic pain of his huge fat meat forcing its way 
into my small, barely used asshole was intense! He pushed his bulbous
cock head into my ass, shoving through my anal sphincter with one
thrust, plunging his huge cockmeat into my bowels.
  NO, FUCK, NO.  I could feel the massive pain as he forced his way
in, his thick monster stretching my shitter unbearably.
  "Nooo, please," I cried, taking my face off of Steven's hard
pole,"It's too big..I can't...Uhhhhhhhh."
  I squealed again as he shoved his meat into me, harder, burning a
painful fire in my ass.
  "Ohhhuh, ohhuh pleas, no, uuhh, noo, uhhhhhhhhhhh..." I groan
sliding down Steven's legs my face near the ground with my hands
supporting me.
  I couldn't feel Jerry moving, just his flaming fuck meat lodged in
my ass. I didn't know what to do and I whimpered in abused pain.  I
felt like his cock was expanding in my asshole, scorching it with its
heat, smashing through my intenstines into my stomach. If I hadn't had
that one fuck session with Darcie and her dildo,  I would probably be
screaming even louder.
  "OOOOhhh, UUHOOhhh,  I lurched forward and groaned again as he
thrust and forced my ass to accommodate his thick pole.
  The rim of my asshole was stretched in a torrid burning that
intensified as he began hammering his hard sausage into my sodomized
ass canal.
  He thrust every inch of his fat fuckpole into my asshole until his
hips pressed against my ass cheeks.  My seldom used asshole began to
get a first class reaming as he drew back and started fucking me in
and out.
  I was drowning in erotic fire and then Steven lifted me back up.
While I grunted in mesmerized pain, he again put his hard manhood to
my lips.  I opened and let his veined flesh slide into my oral cavity.
 He immedidiately began plunging in and out of my mouth and I greedily
gobbled him up, the carnal pleasure of sucking his fuckmeat deep into
my throat distracting me from being ripped in two by Jerry.
   I was being battered from two directions and I began to become
delirious with erotic pleasure and pain.  One cock jammed down my
throat; another cock slammed into my bowels; faster and faster they
attacked my naked form, using me for their savage enjoyment.
   "Oh, uh,oh,uh,oh,oh," I barely grunted as they smashed their hard
cocks in and out of my anal and oral holes.
  The world  was only hard cock; sensual fucking; burning desire.  My
own raging hard on felt like it was going to explode on its own.
Andrew had let go and I saw him stand behind Steven as everything was
reduced to cocks fucking me and fucking me and fucking me.
   "Oh yeah, mother fucker," moaned Andrew as he spread his friends
ass and pushed his own cock into Steven, driving him even deeper into
my throat.
    Jerry grabbed my hips to pull my tortured asshole  to him, burying
his pulsing meat in my backside.  I felt his titanic member sliding in
and out of my flaming asshole, still only lubricated by his copious
saliva.
  "Uuuuooohhhhhhhh  NO, nooouuu," I moaned in impasioned lust as I
felt the incredible heat of the ass fucking.
  I clenched my anal ring around his pounding manhood as my ass sent
wild lewd signals to my own steel hard cock.
  "Uh! ... Uh! .. Uh!...UH.....UH......UHhhh," I grunted as he
continued to hammer  me with his massive, rock hard dick, his hairy
balls smacking against my whorish ass.
  The lewd sensuality had my whole body quivering, moaning and
groaning with inflamed desire.  Nothing else mattered except hard
cocks slamming into me, using my overheated nude figure as a fuck
playtool.
  Then I heard Andrew begin to groan, speeding up his frensied fucking
in and out of his friend's asshole, driving Steven's hard cock harder
and faster in and out of my mouth.
   "FUCK, YEAH!!" he cried as they both froze and he deposited his hot
sperm into Steven's bowels.
  Jerry stopped moving also, his fat dick still lodged painfully in my
ass as Andrew jerked and quivered, cumming, his burning seed shooting
into Steven's ass.
  I panted in delirium, my own hot dick jerking and quivering at this
frozen tableu of queer sex, slobbering over Steven's hard cock,
reveling over two dicks still throbbing inside me.
  I don't know how long we stopped there, my mind and body were too
far gone, but finally Andrew pulled his cock out of Steven and told
him to turn around.
   He pulled his still hard cock out of my mouth and turned around,
presenting his cock to his friend and his fresh fucked asshole to my
face.
  "Lick that pussy, boy," commanded Andrew. "Suck up some of my jizz."
  Still trembling from the tremendous cock in my ass, I tentatively
stuck my tongue out and touched it to Steven's ass.  Andrew slowly
pushed Steven back into my face, spreading his ass cheeks with his
hands, until my mouth was pressed to the slimy, puckered hole. His
juice was oozing out of his fuck hole against my lips and I tongued it
up as Andrew sucked his friend's cock.
  I was still delerious with cock fuck, licking up and down Steven's
ass crack, catching the cream dribbling out of his asshole.  My nose
pushed against his anus and I inhaled his musty ass smell.  I formed a
spear with my tongue and forced it into Steven's  asshole.  His
sphincter had been stretched enough by
Andrew's reaming that I was able to penetrate deep.  I was an insane,
quivering fuckdoll drinking cum out of a faggot's asshole.
  My head spun and I was panting like a dog.  My hands gripped
Steven's thighs just as firmly as Andrew gripped his asscheeks.  I was
both repelled and incredibly turned on by the rimming that I was
giving Steven. And he was just as happy.
  "OOOHHH, God Andy, this is just the fucking best," he cried out as
he shuddered and shook his hips violently, smothering my face with his
ass.
  I continued to tongue his asshole as he arched his whole body and
came, blasting his spunk into his lover's eager mouth.
   "OOOOOooooo, Fffuuuuckkkkk," he moaned jerking his body, forcing me
back into Jerry, driving his huge cock deeper into my abused ass.
  "Jerk yourself," demanded Jerry, driving his meat back against me. 
"I want you to cum."
  I seized my dripping organ and furiously began masturbating myself,
while Jerry began fucking me again, ripping my asshole apart with his
huge schlong, and I continued to suck Steven's asshole.
  I came almost immediately, shooting my wad into the dirt, falling
down and groaning.
  "AHHHAHH ahuhm uhm uhuhuh,"  I cried, as my ass convulsed around
Jerry's massive member and my head batted back and forth on Steven's
thighs.
  I felt Jerry's molten sperm flood my bowels.  He pumped and came, my
asshole clutching at him.  And he pumped and came, innudating me with
cum.
  I fell into the dirt as Jerry's cock slipped out of my numb asshole,
practically unconscious.
  "This kid is fucking incredible," I heard one of the men say as they
helped me back to the car, my asshole aflame and sore, dripping cum,
my feet stumbling, my eyes practically closed, my face smeared with
ass cum.
  They helped me into the back seat where I passed out, still naked.
  Some time later, Steven woke me up as we pulled into a gas
station/supermarket.  He helped me into my pants and took me to the
bathroom.  I was a bit leary that he was going to want to fuck me
again, but he started talking to me and put me at ease.  He wiped off
my face.  He told me to go ahead and take a shit. I was naked again in
the service station bathroom with him, but I really didn't worry to
much about it.  I forced a shit out as he watched and then, he very
gently told me about how to soothe my asshole (which hurt like hell). 
Although I was embarrassed at him watching me shit and wipe myself, he
gave me some vaseline and described how to wipe myself with it after I
had cleaned myself with tissue.  I was amazed at how good that felt.
He then went on to describe how I could slide my fingers into my
asshole and clean out all of the shit, so that anyone could eat me or
fuck me and not get dirty.  I tried it a little bit then (my asshole
really, really hurt), and later on in life, I got it down to
perfection.  This was also amazing.  Steven was very sweet to me.  He
told me how hot I was and how that was one of the best orgasms he had
ever had.  He told me a lot of stuff and by the time we got back to
the car, I was feeling as if he were my friend.
  Andrew had bought three six packs of beer and we proceeded to down
them.  Although he drank one can, I think Jerry was a little annoyed
at us (we were all in the back seat now, getting drunk - they were
regaling me with fuck stories) and he was just as happy to see the
last of us when he finally dropped us all off at the interstate
interchange.
  It was late at night; I was pretty fucking drunk and I had no
interest in continuing to hitchhike that evening.  Andrew and Steven
had the same thought in mind and we all hiked to a nice, secluded
copse of woods near the highway.  They pulled out their sleeping bags
and we continued to drink beer.  When I got up to pee, Andrew stopped
me.
  "Hol' on, hold on," he said, "You're gonna really like this.  Take
off your clothes."
  Fuck, why not.  It was a warm spring evening, no mosquitoes and who
cared.  I stripped down, my piss engorged hard on jutting out from my
belly.
  "Damn," said Andrew, "Doesn't that look sweet?  Look at him.  Take
off your pants Stevie."
  Steven smiled and shook his head as he pulled off his pants and
underwear.
  "Okay, Okay now, c'mere."  Andrew bent Steve over and opened up his
asscheeks, lubing his asshole and pulled me by my hard prick, slicking
up my cock at the same time.
  "Put 'er in," he told me.
  I easily slid into Steve's asshole, its hot darkness sucking my
prick in.
  "Now.... pee."  said Andrew.
  "What?" I questioned. "You want me to piss in his ass?"
  "Absolutely."  said Andrew.
  "Go ahead," said Steven
  What the fuck again...   I stood there naked, trying to get my piss
out through my hard on...  I actually had to pause for a couple of
minutes.  It didn't help that Andrew started caressing my ass.
Finally, I let my stream flow into Steven's eager ass.
  "Ohhh, God, that's great," he moaned as my hot piss filled his ass.
  After I finished peeing and wiped off my dick, Andrew had us all
switch places.  He put his hard man meat into my mouth and Steven
gently eased his fuck pole into my sore asshole.  It still hurt, but I
was surprized at how good it felt to have him put his cock in.  He
prick certainly wasn't as fat as Jerry's had been and he used
vaseline, sliding his cockhead around my anal opening, slowly lodging
it into my deflowered butt hole.  Then both men stood still and I
waited.
  Suddenly I felt both of their hot streams of piss flooding into me.
Andrew blasted his pee into my mouth and directly down my throat,
forcing me to rapidly drink the bitter urine.  Steven blew a load of
never ending heat into my ass, causing my naked body to quiver and
shake.  I was again trapped by dicks, this time spurting what seemed
like gallons of fluid waste into me.  I could feel the hot piss
trickle out my ass and flow down my legs; Andrew's urine overfilling
my oral cavity and washing out onto my lips and chin, dripping onto
the ground.
  When they had finished pissing, I collapsed into the dirt again,
moaning, my ass and mouth leaking harsh fluids, my prick a hard
pulsing pole of raunchy lust.
  Steven took me into his mouth and sucked me to another mind blowing
orgasm as his hot fluids continued to drain out of my ass.
  We shared sleeping bags that night, all three of us naked and tight
together.  I conked out as we were still playing with each other's
cocks and assholes.
  Andrew pissed in my ass in the morning and then fucked me in his own
piss.  Although he lubed me up, it still hurt again and I tried to
protest, but I didn't want to be impolite (really, it was like this
hospitality friendship thing, they slept with me, got my rocks off,
introduced me to new perversions, so I should just go with the flow,
as it were, and not be "rude").  Steven declined to fuck me, but he
gave me good bye blow job after we all got dressed and were ready to
go. He sucked me like a virtuoso and I put another load of my cum into
his mouth, which he lapped up with exaggerated pleasure.   He seemed
like a really nice guy.
  I hitchhiked North; they hitched South, and I never saw them again.
But I can still imagine them pissing their hot loads inside of me. 
Nice guys.

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