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He first became aware of jack-off clubs in 1985 when he found a fictional article in a Honcho magazine describing an organized masturbation party. "The article turned me on in a big way," he says. Like any handsome gay man, Rosenberg had a ton of sex in the 70s and 80s. He also smoked a lot of weed and took acid on the regular, but in 1991, after a year of 12-step sobriety, he met his husband. They eventually migrated to Seattle for work. They had both been into the experience of the jack-off clubs in Chicago and were disappointed to find there was not one in Seattle, which put a damper on the open-relationship he and his husband had decided to embark on.
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"Bathhouses and hookups were easy to come by, but finding even one jack-off buddy, much less a club, was really difficult," he says.
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"It's a uniquely open and nonjudgmental space that straight guys feel free to explore and intersect with gay and bi men." -Paul Rosenberg "So I started one myself."Īlthough it's assumed that jack-off clubs rose to popularity in the wake of AIDS in the 80s when there was a heightened fear of infection through intercourse, Rosenberg says this sort of play had been going on since early history because of desire, not fear of STIs or contracting HIV. "We do this because we want to jack-off together, not because we're scared of getting sick," he assures me. "Jack-off clubs are a pretty small piece of what I would call gay male bonding," Rosenberg explains. #Gay men jacking off in seattle professional#.