The Things We Do When We Are Young

During my college days I was a photography buff with a dark room. I had a friend, Jim, who enjoyed participating with his friendly friends and record it on camera. He had cameras behind closet doors, a plant in his room, and one from above. These cameras were rigged to take a picture every so many seconds. And I exposed the film.

In our college days gay sex was really taboo. These were what today we take for granted, but unknowing participants in gay and recorded wasn't an everyday thing. I took one, which didn't identify the participants and showed it to a man who sold gay sex pictures in mail order envelopes. I found myself in the middle of a huge underground business, and these secret photographs sold for big money,

I never told Jim of his notoriety in the underground sex industry. I destroyed all the negatives before the turn of the century, but that does not erase the memories.