Military Rough Trade - A Proud Tradition

My first year out of the house was at a Catholic university in a medium sized Great Lakes city.  As a freshman, I was somehow placed on the ROTC floor of the only all-male dorm.  Trust me, I wasn't complaining too much.  My roommate was from a small town and was into fishing and hunting.  He was preparing to join the Navy after he graduated.  The rest of the floor was a varying assortment of mostly hot, all masculine, and very boisterous 18 and 19 year olds who were lucky enough to be going to school prior to entering the military life full time.  I can't say that I hooked up with any of them during those semesters (I was a bit geeky and had no game at that point in my life - in fact I was also dating a girl that year), but I did get plenty of JO fantasy material just by hanging out in the hallway.  

Introductory Post - All Things Rough Trade!

I learned exactly what Rough Trade was during my formative high school years.  As I was curious and wondering about my own sexuality (pre-Internet, of course), I read as many books as I could find in my small public library during my junior and senior years of high school.  The town I grew up in had two well known persons associated with it, and each in his own way heightened my own curiosity about men who have anonymous and/or non-romantic sexual liaisons with available hot straight guys.

James Dean


Yes, James Dean was a heart throb, but he was also rumored to be bisexual.  I wonder where those rumors came from?  To my knowledge not one rumor has been confirmed, but still I thought a lot about James Dean as a teen myself, with his imagery everywhere and growing up around people who actually knew him or his family.