I remember the time I used to work in Turkish bathhouses in the thirties as a load-wiper. Watching men wrestle each other to the ground in the saunas, make a grunt or two, then disengage and continue their baths without ever looking the other in the eye again, was truly a fascinating reflection of society's attitudes towards homosexuals in those days. That of course was lost on me, considering my tender age of thirteen, and my sheer workload; in those times there was no such thing HIV, and so no one used condoms - work was very busy.
One day around noon, as I was cleaning up my twelfth set of loads for the day, I caught one of the bathhouses' patrons gazing at me. He was a rather plain looking gentleman in his forties, with a few hints of greying hair, but nonetheless still well built. He beckoned for me to come. Thinking that he needed a towel, I was surprised when he instead asked if I was willing to help him wash his back.
Very soon I found myself engaged in a strange dance with the gentleman, his body writhing as he repeatedly kissed me on my neck as we washed each others backs, chests, arms, bellies and legs. At one point, he even tried to kiss me on the lips, this did not work out as I simply froze at that point and didn't kiss back. At this point, the patrons in the bath room were intently watching us; perhaps too intently if you get what I mean. Entranced by this strange new experience of mine, though I had actually witnessed it before, I allowed the gentleman to lie on top of me as he began to repeatedly rock his body against mine.
Not too long after the rocking began did it stop, as the gentleman stood up and turned towards the sauna walls to relieve himself. As I lay on the bathhouse floor still processing what had happened, I could sense the eyes of the patrons shifting away. My strange experience had suddenly come to an end, and I was back to being the load-wiper boy.
Later that day at the end of my shift, I reported back to the bathhouse reception and was pleasantly surprised to have been given a generous tip from that gentleman.