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I&#8217;d deliberately stayed late, pushing through an extra set of shoulders just so I could linger in the locker room. The air was thick with that familiar mix of sweat, metal, and steam. I was stripping off my tank when he walked in.</p><p>He was probably forty-seven, maybe a little older. Tall, broad, and thick in that powerf&#8230;</p>
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Known for roles in <em>Stranger Things</em> (Suzie&#8217;s Dad), <em>Yellowstone</em>, <em>Ray Donovan</em>, and the cult gay comedy <em>Where the Bears Are</em>.</p><p>Mid-50s, strong build, salt-and-pepper energy, and the kind of quiet confidence that stops the scroll. Equal parts rugged and refined &#8212; pure follow-worthy  daddy material.</p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/markorowe/">@markoro</a>uure</p><p>He was feteruad in Camp fire. </p><p></p><div id="vimeo-789581767" class="vimeo-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;789581767&quot;,&quot;videoKey&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="VimeoToDOM"><div class="vimeo-inner"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/789581767?autoplay=0" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" loading="lazy"></iframe></div></div><p>Watch A married dairy farmer travels to a gay campground in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania to find his long lost love -- and discovers the past isn&#8217;t done with him yet.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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Mark Rowe does the opposite. He walks in quietly, settles into the frame, and before you realize it, he&#8217;s become the emotional center of the story.</p><p>In <em>Campfire</em> (2023), Rowe delivers the kind of performance that feels lived rather than performed. Playing a married farmer who returns to a gay campground to reconnect with a man from his past, he conveys longing, regret, tenderness, and restraint with remarkably few words. The film trusts silence, and Rowe understands exactly how to fill it.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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It&#8217;s how completely believable he is. His expressions carry decades of unspoken history. A hesitant smile, a lingering glance across the campfire, or the subtle tension in his posture tells us as much as any line of dialogue could.</p><p><em>Campfire</em> itself explores themes of memory, missed opportunities, and the complicated paths queer lives sometimes take. Rather than leaning into melodrama, the short </p><p>embraces emotional honesty. Rowe anchors that approach with a grounded, understated performance that invites viewers to reflect on their own &#8220;what if&#8221; moments instead of dictating how they should feel. The film premiered on the festival circuit and became Oscar-qualified, earning praise for its intimate storytelling and emotional maturity.</p><p>As a &#8220;bear&#8221; leading man, Mark Rowe also helps broaden representation. LGBTQ+ films have often centered youthful, conventionally sculpted protagonists. Rowe reminds us that desire, romance, and vulnerability belong equally to mature, rugged men. There&#8217;s something refreshing about seeing a character whose appeal comes from confidence, kindness, and lived experience rather than youthful idealization.</p><p>If <em>Campfire</em> is any indication, Mark Rowe is exactly the sort of performer independent queer cinema needs more of: understated, emotionally generous, and effortlessly charismatic. He proves that sometimes the most memorable performances don&#8217;t shout for attention&#8212;they simply stay with you long after the credits roll.</p><p><strong>Rating:</strong> &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734; (4.5/5)</p><p><strong>Why Watch?</strong></p><ul><li><p>A beautifully restrained performance from Mark Rowe.</p></li><li><p>Authentic mature LGBTQ+ storytelling.</p></li><li><p>Gorgeous natural cinematography and intimate atmosphere.</p></li><li><p>A refreshing leading man whose rugged bear appeal feels genuine rather than performative.</p></li></ul><p>Writer/Director: Austin Bunn<br>Starring: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/markorowe">Mark Rowe </a></p><p>Follow Mark on Instagram </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.instagram.com/markorowe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Follow Mark on Instagram&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.instagram.com/markorowe"><span>Follow Mark on Instagram</span></a></p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/daddywanted/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;daddywanted&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:7484780,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Daddy Wanted&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Daddy Wanted&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!srC7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2d9715c-66c1-4ea2-b559-31421d59671e_1536x1536.png&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Daddy Wanted&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/daddywanted.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Daddy Wanted</span></a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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I listened for the sound of the stranger&#8217;s bare feet slapping down the iron steps to the rocky shore.</p><p>I would sit there thinking about his feet and the pricker bushes that grew up through the steps. His feet and the rocks that lined the shore. His feet in my hands.</p><p>I would look up slowly from my fishing, and there he would be &#8212; standing in the shadows, splashing himself with cold water and looking like some kind of lake god.</p><p>The stranger would swim across the lake and back. I used to watch him look across the water as he stood there with his hand shading his eyes. I memorized the things I loved about him: the hollows of his armpits, the converging lines of his belly, the long ropy muscles of his thighs.</p><p>He wore a swimsuit the other men around here wouldn&#8217;t and couldn&#8217;t wear &#8212; small and tight, showing every inch of his legs and just barely covering the fleshy globes of his ass. It was a professional-looking suit, a swatch of shiny black designed to cover only what would have slowed him down in the water.</p><p>I could plainly see the satiny mound of his stuff riding high over his thighs. I could see the jutting profile of his wonderful, bothersome rudder.</p><p>On the other side of the lake, not so far away, was a dark green smear: Constantia. There were other towns, of course, across the lake. There were other lake cabins and live-bait shops.</p><p>When we got to talking once, I asked him, &#8220;Why do you swim to Constantia?&#8221;</p><p>He just shrugged his heavy shoulders and gave me a half-smile. &#8220;Why not?&#8221; he said, and he dived in.</p><p>As he floated in at the end of his swim one day, I called out, &#8220;Did you have a good time?&#8221;</p><p>He nodded. I searched for something else to say, but he was already up onshore, toweling off as his ass cheeks wagged and his dripping back gleamed at me.</p><p>After glancing up the bank and then at me, he turned, pulled down the top of his suit, and pissed into the lake. I looked away, out over the water, but I could hear the splash he made, and I had to look again.</p><p>I saw him shake out the furls of his crotch, scattering drops of piss that glittered in the morning sun. &#8220;It&#8217;s for good luck,&#8221; he said, just loudly enough for me to hear. &#8220;So the lake knows who&#8217;s boss.&#8221;</p><p>He tucked himself away. I felt magnificent being privy to the sight of his private parts. Then he stepped out onto my dad&#8217;s dock and joined me at its end.</p><p>&#8220;Ever catch anything out here?&#8221; he asked.</p><p>He was smaller than my dad, but still he towered over me. He was all shoulders, arms, and legs &#8212; miles of bare skin &#8212; with a narrow, muscle-bound middle. His face was long, with a heavy, square chin and a wide, full-lipped mouth that looked as if it had been kissed a million times that day.</p><p>His hands rested on his bare hipbones, and his suit slipped down, showing his smooth, white skin and the beginnings of a thick black bush. He was looking at me, waiting for an answer to his question.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry?&#8221; I said.</p><p>&#8220;Catch anything?&#8221; he asked again.</p><p>&#8220;Not yet,&#8221; I told him.</p><p>He smiled or maybe just screwed up his face, squinting. He looked out over the lake again. &#8220;How old are you?&#8221; he asked me.</p><p>I hated this question, even from him. My dad said I was always going to look eighteen.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be twenty-two next month,&#8221; I said. I met his level gaze.</p><p>&#8220;Just wondering,&#8221; he said, touching his chin. He stood for a moment. &#8220;Well,&#8221; he said after a time. He turned around and started walking.</p><p>&#8220;See you,&#8221; I said, dropping my fishing pole and getting to my feet.</p><p>He lifted a hand without looking back. I watched him climb the steep steps, loving the line of his back, the deep crease between his shoulder blades, and the dark patch of hair above his butt.</p><p>That night I tossed and turned with the thought of him. In my mind I slipped between his tanned, black-haired legs, passed over his meaty buttocks, and wrapped myself around his waist. I watched the ceiling and saw his face there.</p><p>What&#8217;s your name? I wondered. I thought of names that might fit: Scott. Chris. Tom. Keith.</p><p>I was thinking that I should have touched the pouch of his bathing suit when he stood so close. I could have unfurled his dick into my mouth. I could have sucked his balls and eased the tightness from the cold lake water, warming them with my hot tongue.</p><div><hr></div><p>I sat the next morning in a cold rain. I didn&#8217;t hear him climb down the stairs and step into the water. He glided past me, his chest cutting through the dark water, his nipples hard dots. He passed without a word, intent on the other side. I watched the rippling muscles of his back until he slipped under.</p><p>I put my hand under my slicker to touch myself. My prick was livid, feverish, its split head leaking. I licked my fingertip, pretending it was his.</p><p>He swam back breathless an hour later. I could see his gritted white teeth as he lifted his arms out of the water and punched them back in. He swam straight for the dock, straight for me.</p><p>He pulled himself up onto the dock, panting. The muscles along his shoulders jumped, and his lats fanned like clipped wings. His stomach was brown and covered with short hairs. His little suit dipped low, revealing even more of his luxuriant pubes.</p><p>He sat beside me, breathing hard and scraping water off himself with his hands. As he watched me watching him, his mouth was set in something like a smirk. He picked up the fishing pole I had dropped as soon as he swam away and cast the line a few times.</p><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not looking to catch a fish, are you?&#8221; he said. &#8220;No bait, no lure.&#8221;</p><p>His wide mouth lost its mocking expression. He began to smile. &#8220;Sitting here in the rain pretending to fish,&#8221; he said, grinning hard now and looking up at the gray sky.</p><p>I wanted to step into the lake and sink to the bottom. He had found me out for what I was &#8212; queer for him &#8212; and he was all but laughing. I wished he&#8217;d snapped my neck and tossed me in to drown. I watched his chest fill with air. The rain fell harder, running over him in little winding rivulets.</p><p>&#8220;You out here watching me every day?&#8221; he said. He kept his eyes averted. I had a coward&#8217;s license to stare. A patch of red rushed to his cheek. He shook it away and gave me a glance that was nearly bashful. Suddenly he looked fidgety &#8212; a big, overgrown, hairy kid.</p><p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he said, rising quickly. His hands made a screen over his crotch, which was also fidgety. &#8220;Name&#8217;s Drew,&#8221; he said.</p><p>I held up my hand to shake his and to get at least a glimpse of what he was trying to hide.</p><p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he said again. The rain was coming down harder still. It ran over the ridges and ravines of his muscles. He cupped his hands over his writhing mound. &#8220;Gotta go,&#8221; he said suddenly.</p><p>He nearly ran off the dock, but not before I got a good look at the perfect impression of his long, jutting dick hardening against the front of his bathing suit.</p><div><hr></div><p>The next day I left the fishing pole at home and brought a book down to the lake with me. I waited and waited, wondering what might have happened to him. Had he died in his sleep, been murdered?</p><p>I walked to the dark little cabin on Ontario Avenue where I thought he might live. It was secluded, surrounded by towering pines. I saw his little black bathing suit hanging in the crotch of a tree. The cabin door was open. I could see through the screened porch.</p><p>I moved closer and saw the sole of a foot hanging off the edge of a bed. Closer still, I saw an ankle, a calf, a thigh, and then the smooth round cheek of Drew&#8217;s bare ass. He humped his mattress twice in his sleep. He moaned loudly and twisted in bed, lifting his head. His eyes were almost open beneath his unruly black hair. He cocked one leg, spreading the globes of his butt, exposing his hairy crack and the silky bag of balls hanging from it. Then he picked a clock up and held it near his face.</p><p>He bounded out of bed. &#8220;Shit,&#8221; he said, getting closer to me. I ducked and hid under the porch. I heard the screen door fly open. From my hiding place I saw him hopping naked over the pine needles, running as if on hot sand. As he grabbed the suit from the crotch of the tree and ran back to the house, I saw his half-hard dick completely uncovered for the first time &#8212; a long, swinging pole that slapped one thigh and then the other.</p><p>I heard him back on the porch and peeked up to see him struggling with the bathing suit, hopping from foot to foot. &#8220;Damn, damn, damn,&#8221; he yelled. The waistband snapped hard on his belly. There was the whine of the screen door again, then the sound of his feet on the pine needles.</p><p>I lay flat on the ground, afraid to look this time. I closed my eyes instead and saw him on his bed, the pale butt split with the hair-dark rift. Let me in there, I was thinking. Let me at that butt.</p><p>&#8220;You pervy little fuck!&#8221; I heard Drew say, and I thought my heart would burst. I couldn&#8217;t speak. My mouth was dry and useless. I looked up to see him standing over me, covering the sky. I was trapped, and I feared for my life. I didn&#8217;t think Drew would actually hurt me, but then I wasn&#8217;t sure he wouldn&#8217;t.</p><p>&#8220;Get up,&#8221; he said, his voice low and even.</p><p>I tried to look at his face, but it was obscured by the growing front of his bathing suit. He peered over it, his eyes cold.</p><p>&#8220;C&#8217;mon,&#8221; he said. When I tried to rise, he pushed his knee into my chest and knocked me over. Then he grabbed my shoulder, hauled me to my feet, and escorted me into the cabin. It was a single room with a big fireplace on one wall and a kitchenette on the other. There was a bed and a chair and a big table between them piled high with books, papers, magazines, and a tube of something I thought at first was toothpaste.</p><p>&#8220;Sit your ass down,&#8221; he said. I did as I was told. &#8220;So,&#8221; he said, pacing and rubbing the worrisome bother of his crotch. I was too scared to be hard myself. I kept my hands on the arms of the chair.</p><p>Was he going to rape and kill me? Would I end up in the lake as food for the fish or in some big pot of cannibal soup? Or &#8212; worse yet &#8212; would he tell my dad?</p><p>Drew sat down on his unmade bed. His face was unreadable. He looked at me the way he looked across the lake at Constantia. He stared forever, it seemed.</p><p>I tried to speak and sputtered instead: &#8220;I, uh&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Just shut the fuck up,&#8221; he said quietly. And then something seemed to cross his mind. It showed up on his face as clearly as a storm cloud on the horizon. He smiled then, a wicked smile. &#8220;So you like to watch.&#8221;</p><p>He lay back on the bed and put his hands on his black nylon mound, his eyes fixed on me. I swallowed hard as he groped himself and ran his fingers lightly over the downward curve of his fat shaft. As he got hard I could see the outline of his prick head nestling under his balls &#8212; just above the hairy knot of his ass, I figured. &#8220;This is the sort of thing you like?&#8221; he said.</p><p>I had lost my fear and was painfully aware of my own erection pressing against my shorts. I tried to dislodge it but couldn&#8217;t. I rasped myself against the zippered fly.</p><p>Drew said sharply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you even think about touching yourself.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;But my&#8212;&#8221; I started.</p><p>&#8220;Touch it and it&#8217;s over,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No shit.&#8221;</p><p>I gripped the arms of the chair again, and Drew dug his hands into his suit, pushing hard on his curved cock, pressing its head lower and lower. I was sure it was pressing on his asshole. He groaned, and I felt invisible or even gone. He seemed rapt. A hand strayed up his belly. The other hand stayed hidden but busy. He worked on a nipple and spread his muscled thighs wide.</p><p>&#8220;Now come here,&#8221; Drew said hoarsely, &#8220;and get this thing off me.&#8221;</p><p>He closed his legs, and his dick jutted up higher than ever. My fingertips brushed his stomach. It was as hard as wood, a rippled expanse of skin. I gripped his waistband and pulled, and Drew&#8217;s fat cock sprang up and slapped over onto his belly. I peeled the suit down his thick brown thighs while Drew played with his nipples. His dick twitched like a fish on a stringer.</p><p>&#8220;Come here,&#8221; he said. He pulled me down over him. He slammed his mouth into mine, cushioning the blow with his full lips, overpowering my tongue with his own. It was like a smaller, flatter version of his dick as it fucked its way in and out of my mouth. His hips bucked, and he knotted his ankles behind my back, digging in with his heels.</p><p>He rolled me over onto my back and hovered over me on the bed, looking at me. He slipped a hand between us to unzip my shorts. He held my cock as if he intended to tear it out by its root and jacked its taut shaft with short tugs that made my tip smear with jizz. &#8220;Oh, man,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to do next.&#8221;</p><p>The possibilities seemed endless, and my heart leaped at the realization that I had this opportunity. I wanted to do everything &#8212; right away.</p><p>He lifted my T-shirt and tongued my nipples and the light-brown hairs that grew around them in wiry whorls. His mouth slipped down the chestnut trail that began between my pecs and led straight to my thick springy bush. He slicked down all the hairs with a sticky spit that would rival any lube and nosed around my balls, sniffing at the base of my stiff, straight cock.</p><p>The first touch of his lips on my pointy tip made me roll my eyes and curl my toes. I felt my prick strain upward for the heat of his mouth and the lash of his tongue. He worked tentatively, with chokes and gags, and it occurred to me he might be as inexperienced as I.</p><p>He sputtered and looked up at me with watery eyes. Shrugging his shoulders, he returned to the job at hand. Slowly he worked his way down to the base, making an unhurried meal of me. Once he started it was hard to stop him. His mouth and hand worked in unison, bringing me a little too close to popping.</p><p>I pushed him off my prick. It hopped, ready to shoot. Drool hung in loopy strings from Drew&#8217;s red lips. His cock was butting my shin, smearing it with goo. &#8220;Man,&#8221; Drew said, talking to my pecker. &#8220;You are some piece of work.&#8221; He licked a snaking vein. &#8220;I finger-fucked myself all week thinking about getting you in me.&#8221;</p><p>I let out a groan and pressed my hips into the air, slamming my dick against the pillows of his lips. That hole, I was thinking. The one that winked at me before.</p><p>I pulled him up and got his mouth on mine, pawing his butt with my horny fingers and spreading his cheeks wide. With a finger I probed his pursed ass lips, dipping into their hot center. Drew ate my mouth and fucked my stomach, his steely dick working up a foamy slime.</p><p>Soon I was straddling him, and he was taking three fingers without so much as a blink. He spat on his palm and reached for my pecker. He slicked me up and pointed me in the right direction, and I slid right in.</p><p>&#8220;There you go,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got the right kind of dick for fucking. Anybody ever tell you that?&#8221; His eyes were closed, and he was smiling. His hole was hot and unlike anything I had ever imagined. His tight sphincter threatened both to make me shoot a sadly premature load and to shut off my circulation. I humped his ass slowly, gripping him with a newfound strength. I fought against his tight ring, teasing him, fucking him with just the head of my cock. Then, like a pile driver, I drew back and slammed his crazy butt with long, harsh strokes that had him wailing.</p><p>Drew&#8217;s club was purple-headed and slapping his belly, but he left it alone, using both hands on my tits instead. My nipples swelled under his rough touch. He pulled and twisted, causing shooting pains that took my mind off the feel of my prong up inside his ass.</p><p>Suddenly Drew let out a scary holler that must&#8217;ve been heard all around the lake. He spewed like a fire hose while I loaded him up with my own brand of cream, pumping it up into a mess of froth that oozed from his gash with each of his spasms.</p><p>I ate the goo he shot onto my face, and he moved to let me clean up his crotch as well. I licked his hole, loving the taste of him.</p><div><hr></div><p>We had plenty of fun the rest of the summer. He seemed unable to get enough of my cock. I took to slipping out at night to fuck him. I would wake up the next day, sore and smelling like his butt hole, long past time for his swim across the lake. I hung around his cabin, reading books and taking long naps on his bed. I tried to get him to talk about himself, but he would always change the subject. &#8220;I&#8217;m just having a little vacation&#8221; was all he&#8217;d say. Vacation from what? I wondered.</p><p>One night I came to his cabin and found it dark. I opened the screen door and walked in, sure of my way in the darkness. I tripped over something unexpected and heard two yells along with my own. The lights came on, and there was Drew with some hairy, naked man.</p><p>&#8220;Are you all right?&#8221; Drew asked, coming away from the man&#8217;s dick, which I glimpsed as a big white flash. He knelt beside me on the floor.</p><p>&#8220;Are you?&#8221; I asked, clutching my banged-up leg.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m OK,&#8221; Drew said, putting his hands on my leg gently. I noticed the other man, Drew&#8217;s friend, wrapping a sheet around his waist. I also noticed the man&#8217;s massive shoulders, powerful arms, and beautiful eyes &#8212; and the shape of his big dick poking the sheet.</p><p>&#8220;My leg really hurts,&#8221; I said.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not broken,&#8221; Drew said. &#8220;I think you&#8217;re all right.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be so sure,&#8221; I said petulantly. &#8220;How about him? Is he all right?&#8221;</p><p>Drew looked over his shoulder. The man was standing by the window, looking out as if there were more to see than darkness.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s all right,&#8221; Drew replied, smiling now. &#8220;Ask him.&#8221; I shook my head and looked away.</p><p>&#8220;Hey, Tom, my friend here wants to know if you&#8217;re all right.&#8221; I pinched the head of Drew&#8217;s dick, and he howled.</p><p>&#8220;He wants to meet you,&#8221; Drew said, nursing his cock. It was beginning to recover, swinging low, filling with blood. When he stood his dick hung perpendicular to his body.</p><p>Tom came over. As he squatted beside me, he accidentally stepped on his sheet. Suddenly he was naked. Hanging between his thighs was a thick, swollen prick that looked like a zucchini left too long on the vine &#8212; almost too big to eat, nearly too big to do anything else with, either.</p><p>&#8220;Is this the one?&#8221; Tom asked, looking me over. It was hard for me to look at anything but his thick slab of cock. &#8220;Is he a souvenir?&#8221; I heard him ask Drew.</p><p>&#8220;Now, that&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t think of,&#8221; Drew said.</p><p>&#8220;Baby, you&#8217;ve obviously been too busy to think,&#8221; Tom retorted, grinning. &#8220;Glad to know you,&#8221; he said, holding out a hand to me. &#8220;And thanks for taking care of my pal here.&#8221; I took the hand he offered, feeling left out and uncertain.</p><p>&#8220;Now,&#8221; Drew said, his hands on his thighs. I knew that look. He was ready to get busy.</p><p>Tom sat on the edge of the chair, his cock sticking straight up. It looked as thick as a forearm, impossible to work with. Drew shook his head. Squeezing the end of his lube tube, he coated that cock all the way to the tip. He was going to need all the help he could get.</p><p>Drew positioned himself over the chair as if to sit down, and Tom arched his hips up to touch Drew&#8217;s pinched hole with the dewy tip of his fat boner. I sat behind the chair to watch, positive that this was a feat they could not achieve. Then I saw Drew take a slow squat. His hole lost its pinch, spreading wide and going pale. And Tom&#8217;s cock head slipped inside.</p><p>&#8220;No way,&#8221; I said, going spiky, rubbing myself against the back of the chair. I ran my fingers through Tom&#8217;s dark hair, down over his face, and into the fur of his chest. I worked his nipples as if I were looking for my favorite song on the radio. He made a low growl that I felt more than heard, and I saw more of his prick slip up into Drew&#8217;s nearly white-lipped ass.</p><p>&#8220;Fuck, that&#8217;s big,&#8221; Drew said over his shoulder, giving me a look and trying to smile. &#8220;What&#8217;s it look like, kiddo?&#8221; he asked.</p><p>&#8220;Painful,&#8221; I said.</p><p>Tom said, &#8220;It looks good, baby, real good.&#8221; And he pushed a little more of himself up into Drew.</p><p>I felt a bit left out, so I got up and moved around to settle in between Drew&#8217;s legs, sucking on his stiff prick. &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s sweet, man,&#8221; he said, playing with my hair with one hand as he gripped the arm of the chair with the other. I swallowed him up, feeling his cock responding, feeling each gentle stroke Tom made. I put my hands on Drew&#8217;s hard thighs and stroked the quivering muscles. I reached in between his legs and touched Tom&#8217;s butt-slick shaft, then reached down under Tom&#8217;s tight balls to wiggle a finger up his knotted hole.</p><p>&#8220;Oh, man,&#8221; one of them said. I couldn&#8217;t tell who, because Drew had his fingers in my ears. He filled my mouth with cock and then took it all out, butting my swollen lips with it. He jabbed it back in with a grunt.</p><p>&#8220;Give me that cock, buddy,&#8221; he said, hopping up and down, taking all of Tom&#8217;s cock and wanting more. &#8220;Come on, buddy, give it to me, buddy,&#8221; he was saying over and over, fucking my mouth. I could taste what was already seeping out, a warning of what was to come. Drew jabbered madly and pushed me backward. I fell to the floor and slammed my cock with my fist as Drew showered me with a thick gush of jizz. My load mixed with Drew&#8217;s all over my chest and stomach. Tom staggered to his feet, holding Drew and pumping his ass ferociously. He let go like a wild man, cursing and praising Drew&#8217;s hot hole as it took every drop that spilled from his giant dick.</p><div><hr></div><p>And then it was all over. One day Drew swam across the lake and never swam back. There was a letter for me in his empty cabin. I took it to the lake and sat at the end of the dock to read it.</p><p>&#8220;The time has come for me to go home,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I had a great time with you this summer. Maybe we can do it again next year, but I don&#8217;t think Tom will let me go off by myself again. You&#8217;re always welcome over here. Every time I look across the lake I&#8217;ll think of you. Come visit us. Often.&#8221;</p><p>At the bottom of the page was his address: Park Street, Constantia.</p><p>So, I thought, the fucker lives over there and took some weird vacation over here. I felt like the butt of a private joke, as if I&#8217;d been tricked, though I couldn&#8217;t have said how. All I knew was that summer was over. I&#8217;d lost the best ass I could ever hope for.</p><p>I ripped Drew&#8217;s letter into big pieces and dropped them into the water, hoping some of them would drift across the lake and wash up on the shore of his hometown.</p><p>Then I thought about the end of summer and the coming of winter &#8212; how the lake would freeze over, and how I could just walk across the frozen water to see the man who loved to get fucked.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Tearoom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian Tearoom]]></description><link>https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/russian-tearoom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/russian-tearoom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daddy Wanted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:02:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-video.s3.amazonaws.com/video_upload/post/202015604/4715cbc0-e626-4236-8bbf-4299af6e3280/transcoded-1781470738.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Russian Tearoom</strong><br><em>by Erik von S</em></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ1u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9debe43c-e1c2-4238-9459-6d274843675e_1000x1379.jpeg" 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steps away. It was like walking into a cheap black-and-white B-movie from the &#8216;40s. You know the kind &#8212; slinky dames dangling cigarettes from big red lips, getting roughed up by gun-toting boyfriends.</p><p>The only difference? The dames had been replaced by lonely, drunken sailors looking to rough each other up instead.</p><p>I came here out of necessity&#8230; to empty a piss-filled cock. In reality, I was looking for a cheap fucking thrill. And this broken-down excuse for a men&#8217;s room seemed like the perfect place to find one.</p><p>The unbearable stench in the air excited me even more. I had always loved the smell of a spent man &#8212; especially a room full of them. I wondered how many of Mother Russia&#8217;s finest had wiped their cocks against the graffiti-covered walls&#8230; or dumped gallons of piss into the urinals&#8230; or, better yet, directly onto the filthy floor with a mouth or two in between.</p><p>I took a long, deep breath&#8230; and stripped off my rain-soaked shirt, showing off my hairy chest and stiff pink nipples. Stripping in front of other men always gave me a hard-on. And the thought of doing it in a place like this made me even hotter.</p><p>Slowly, I made my way through the smoky haze &#8212; the kind you get from too many Gauloises and Cuban cigars. It was hard to tell how many sailor sluts loomed in the semidarkness, waiting to swing on a cock at the drop of a pair of pants. I wasn&#8217;t interested in all of them&#8230; just the ones who were willing and able.</p><p>As my eyes adjusted to the faint light, I got a good look at them. Some half-dressed, others completely naked. They stroked their cocks slowly with large, rough hands. Their eyes &#8212; and their vile thoughts &#8212; were fixed on me.</p><p>I was fresh meat. And they could smell it&#8230; just like lean, mean Siberian wolves.</p><p>I knew it was gonna hurt. I just didn&#8217;t know how much.</p><p>As the naked men clapped in a slow rhythm, Ivan, Boris, and I fell to the floor. Ivan quickly propped me on my knees, my ass wide open for all to see.</p><p>I closed my eyes and clenched my teeth. Little did I know that Boris&#8217;s dick was already waiting to enter my cock-stretched mouth.</p><p>Excited by the cock-jerking onlookers, the two studs rammed their twin eleven-inch fuckers into me&#8230; assaulting both holes at once.</p>
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Hadn&#8217;t expected to make it through Atlanta as early as I did. But as I passed through Chattanooga, the rain started. And it was already 2 hours dark. If I hadn&#8217;t put 500 miles on the Buick today already, I could have probably plugged on. Instead, the dyke with big hair at the Gas n&#8217; Git f&#8230;</p>
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I'm sorry, Daddy, sorry."]]></description><link>https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/2-fathers-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/2-fathers-day</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daddy Wanted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:43:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t1rN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13c16967-1404-45f6-994a-81038065c19a_1782x2400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t1rN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F13c16967-1404-45f6-994a-81038065c19a_1782x2400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>FATHER&#8217;S DAY</p><p>By Spike &#8226; Illustration by Domino</p><p>I needed a break. I&#8217;d finally graduated from school and was a full-fledged architect, but I wasn&#8217;t ready to settle into the routine of an office job yet. My last year of school had been rough and it seemed that I&#8217;d spent all of my life cooped up indoors behind a desk. My father was unhappy about the whole ide&#8230;</p>
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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CwVj!, /__u/daddywanted.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/daddywanted.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/daddywanted.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/daddywanted.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/daddywanted.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa25bb743-3d29-4613-b512-f93c8d21b171_2512x1258.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>The Unknown Man</em> is one of those quiet, tense little stories where everything feels sunlit on the outside&#8230; but complicated underneath. A Flemish writer named Louis escapes to the C&#244;te d&#8217;Azur looking for inspiration, but what he finds instead is fascination &#8212; the kind that starts with watching and slowly turns into obsession.</p><div id="youtube2-G-pKD-8xf0M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;G-pKD-8xf0M&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;545s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/G-pKD-8xf0M?start=545s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>And honestly? That is exactly why this felt like the right first pick for <strong>Daddy Wanted: Movies &amp; TV</strong>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This is not just about a man on vacation.<br>It is about the gaze. The silence. The fantasy. The danger of wanting something &#8212; or someone &#8212; who may never really belong to you.</p><p>There is something very &#8220;Daddy Wanted&#8221; about Louis as a character: older, observant, emotionally hungry, stuck between control and surrender. He is not loud. He is not chasing in an obvious way. But the tension is there, simmering under every look.</p><p>The film gives us that delicious mix of summer heat, loneliness, masculine desire, and uncomfortable longing. It is sensual without needing to scream. It lets the viewer feel the awkwardness, the fantasy, and the ache of wanting to be seen.</p><p>So for the first official watchlist entry, this one earns its place.</p><p>Because sometimes the sexiest stories are not about what happens.<br>Sometimes they are about what almost happens.</p><p><strong>Watch here:</strong><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pKD-8xf0M&amp;t=545s&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Watch here&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pKD-8xf0M&amp;t=545s"><span>Watch here</span></a></p><p><strong>Daddy Wanted rating:</strong><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-pKD-8xf0M&amp;t=545s">Watch here:</a>&#128293;&#128293;&#128293;&#128293; / 5 for atmosphere, tension, and grown-man longing</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Watch here:</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><br></p><div id="youtube2-G-pKD-8xf0M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;G-pKD-8xf0M&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;545s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/G-pKD-8xf0M?start=545s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://daddywanted.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. 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GRUNT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Erotic Fiction from Issue 60 of BEAR Magazine]]></description><link>https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/1-grunt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://daddywanted.substack.com/p/1-grunt</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daddy Wanted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:30:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-video.s3.amazonaws.com/video_upload/post/189510023/2aae1d0f-a50f-4b8e-94ae-d4f7e147b7ea/transcoded-1772327677.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dy6o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d054cb8-3578-4dfa-8a39-7ac5c274383f_1426x1874.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Yeah? You getting off on this? You just keep watching me, Grunt... My dick is aching in my pants, my swollen nuts roll back and forth with each step my boots make in the gravel. I&#8217;m looking him dead-on as I approach, but he&#8217;s still too scared to look directly back. He knows I&#8217;m the Boss, he instinctively bends with his shovel when I pass. He dutifully scoops up a load of construction debris and chucks it in the wheel-harrow. That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s paid to do. I liked the way he bent for that scoop. With that movement, it was like he&#8217;d bowed before me. Yup, you know who&#8217;s the pack-leader around here, doncha Pup?</p><p>I didn&#8217;t shut the door completely; I deliberately left it ajar. I know he hasn&#8217;t got the guts to step up and inside with me. But I know he wants to. It&#8217;s hot today, I can smell the sharp animal scent of other men when I step into the portable toilet. And I smell my own dick too when I skin it back. 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