Healthy Friction Maine.

Bate in the Woods.

Healthy Friction Maine.

05-08 September 2025.

Weekend of Masturbation at the Twin Ponds Lodge. .




Twin Ponds Lodge
9 York Town Road
Albion, Maine

https://www.twinpondslodge.com/

• Get out of the heat this summer, fly up north to Bate in the Woods,
  stay in a cabin or FEMA Trailer in Maine.
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• 87 miles: Portland, ME (PWM / KPWM) Portland International Jetport
• 188 miles: Boston, MA (BOS / KBOS) Boston Logan International Airport

Healthy Friction is a Bate-Reunion.
3 night Masturbation Vacation in the woods.

What is Healthy Friction?

Celebrate your penis and reunite with your bate brothers.

• Mutual Consent is Key.

• Solo Masturbation.

• Mutual Jack-Off..

• Erotic and Sexy Touch..

• Showing Off your Penis.

• Enjoying the Show of Men Showing their Masturbation and Penis.

• Frottage, Cock to Cock.

• Circle Jerk around the fire, (fire season depending).

• Nipple Play.

• Male Fellowship

• Phallic Photography but in another Area away from the Main Room and Play Areas.

• Bring a towel to set on in your Bate travels.

Eventbrite Tickets

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maine-september-2025-healthy-friction-tickets-1339154811089?aff=oddtdtcreator

Current capacity: 88

Twin Ponds membership fee $40 USD annually, then $40 credit towards lodging or tent.

This is different from other Healthy Friction.
Long-term residents will be here.
I'll make it easy for them to join us.

Twin Ponds Lodge.
There is a room block.
7 cabins.
5 permanent tents.
8 RV spaces.
20 electric tent sites.
30 basic tent sites.
8 FEMA trailers with A/C.


If you have a Canine, check with Twin Ponds Lodge on availability in Cabin or FEMA Trailer space. .
207-437-2200

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• Weekend Of Masturbation, Masturbation Vacation. 2025. Palm Springs 10-14 April Pacific NW 08-11 August Maine 05-08 September Palm Springs 25-28 September

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Healthy Friction Pacific Northwest

Healthy Friction Pacific NW

Bate in the Woods.
Healthy Friction Pacific Northwest.

08-11 August 2025.

Weekend of Masturbation at the Paca Pride Guest Ranch.
(Private Party).

Healthy Friction is a Bate-Reunion.
3 night Masturbation Vacation in the woods.

Stay in a Yurt or Tent Platform.
Drive your own RV or stay in your own Tent camping.

What is Healthy Friction?

Celebrate your penis and reunite with your bate brothers.

• Mutual Consent is Key.

• Solo Masturbation.

• Mutual Jack-Off..

• Erotic and Sexy Touch..

• Showing Off your Penis.

• Enjoying the Show of Men Showing their Masturbation and Penis.

• Frottage, Cock to Cock.

• Circle Jerk around the fire, (fire season depending).

• Nipple Play.

• Male Fellowship

• Phallic Photography but in another Area away from the Main Room and Play Areas.

• Bring a towel to set on in your Bate travels.

Eventbrite Tickets

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healthy-friction-pnw-tickets-1250950790489?aff=oddtdtcreator

Current capacity: 45
Potential capacity: 100

Paca Pride Guest Ranch.

28311 Mountain Loop Hwy, Granite Falls, WA 98252

Care to come day early, make arrangements with Paca Pride.
Late check out, make arrangements with Paca Pride.

https://pacaprideguestranch.com/

Get out of the heat this summer, fly up north to Bate in the Woods.
stay in a Yurt in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest. 

50 miles north of Seattle.
30 miles east of Everett's Paine Field.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wRQ9c2DCM7xxn2PW8

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• Weekend Of Masturbation, Masturbation Vacation. 2025. Palm Springs 10-14 April Pacific NW 08-11 August
  Maine 05-08 September Palm Springs 25-28 September

Healthy Friction Palm Springs 25-29 September 2025

 

Healthy Friction in Palm Springs.

Palm Springs Resort Weekend of Masturbation.

25-29 September 2025.
4 day event. Private party.
Host Hotel is Vista Grande Resort.
3 night minimum stay.

$175 person, register VistaGrandeResort to get code to reserve a room.
The Room block is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Room rates are not available online,
Call Vista Grande for actual rates and availability. Phone: (760) 322-2404.

Locals and Other Hotels $220 per person, THU-SUN

THU Meet N Greet 25 SEP 4:30-6pm
Dinner break on our own. 6-8pm
THU Night JO party at Men's Oasis in Cathedral City: 8-10pm
FRI-SAT-SUN Weekend of Masturbation at Vista Grande Resort.

All 30 rooms blocked for this private party.

Eventbrite Tickets

Registration and Introduction:

Stay in the Hotel Hotel: Vista Grande Resort 25-29 September 2025.
The Room block is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Host Hotel Registration $175 per person. plus eventbrite fees.
Vista Grande Resort FRI-SAT-SUN, check out MON

Locals and Other Hotels $220 per person, THU-SUN
 

25 September THU Meet N Greet 4:30-6pm
25 September THU Dinner break on our own. 6-8pm
25 September THU Night party at Men's Oasis in Cathedral City: 8-10pm
26-29 September FRI-SAT-SUN Weekend of play at Vista Grande Resort.


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/palm-springs-september-2025-healthy-friction-tickets-1286886625539?aff=oddtdtcreator

Registration Rates subject to change until registered. No refunds.

Registration required for you to get a booking code,
then call the Vista Grande Resort to reserve your room.

Phone: (760) 322-2404

Palm Springs Airport (PSP) to Vista Grande Resort Directions:
https://goo.gl/maps/4atDzrUaAKiFc76V

Meet n Greet
Thursday 25 September 4:30-6pm
600 E Sunny Dunes Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92264

Dinner break on our own 6-8pm
THU night JO party at Men's Oasis in Cathedral City 8-10pm
FRI-SAT-SUN Weekend of Masturbation at Vista Grande Resort.

Stay informed, join the Healthy Friction google group:
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Healthy Friction Shirts and merchandise.
https://www.cafepress.com/shop/healthyfriction/

What is Healthy Friction?

Celebrate your penis and reunite with your bate brothers.

• Mutual Consent is Key.

• Solo Masturbation.

• Mutual Jack-Off..

• Erotic and Sexy Touch..

• Showing Off your Penis.

• Enjoying the Show of Men Showing their Masturbation and Penis.

• Frottage, Cock to Cock.

• Circle Jerk around the Pools and Hot-Tubs

• Nipple Play.

• Male Fellowship

• Phallic Photography but in another Area away from the Main Room and Play Areas.

• Bring a towel to set on in your Bate travels.
  
  
  

  
  

  We gather in small groups to go out to dinner or the gym.
  Please invite others along.

  
  
  

  

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The culture of Photography and Videos at Healthy Friction.

Every Photographer/Videographer agrees to always ask permission before taking a photo.
Burning Man does this, and it's easy.
Just communicate.

If Photos are going to be taken, you'll know, because the photographer will ask first,
No worries.
No One will take your photo without your permission.

It didn't happen at the original Bate-Off last APR 3-5, 2009.
It didn't happen at Healthy Friction in Vegas, at the Blue Moon Resort, 16-18 OCT, 2009.
Didn't happen from 2009 through today.
It won't happen this weekend.

If a photo/video gets taken of you and YOU don't agree to it, ask the photographer to delete it! Easy.

Perhaps I will make some signs that can designate the area we might be doing the photography,

easily it can be away from the Big House, so there should be no question or issue for anyone.

Button from Burning Man 2009 from the camp that educates this social custom and etiquette.

From the Bureau of Erotic Discourse, URL for this camp at Burning Man below.

http://www.bureauoferoticdiscourse.org/

http://www.burningman.com/press/photo_guide.html

Burning Man's number one rule of etiquette for photography is Ask First – you should get permission before taking somebody's photo. Does this mean you can't grab a shot of somebody cruising by on a really cool bike, or capture a compelling scene you happen to see through your telephoto lens? No, of course not – realistically, you should ask first whenever realistically possible. But the question you have to ask yourself before pressing the shutter is "Am I invading this person's privacy in any way?". If the person is fully or partially nude, in the middle of some obviously very private moment, or doing anything that perhaps they would not want the whole world to see, then yes, you definitely need to ask first – do not press the shutter. If somebody is doing henna body painting on a nude model in Center Camp, and there are a dozen people with cameras surrounding them snapping away, can you just jump in and take pictures as well? No you can't – instead, set an example for the others. Go up to the model and ask first. Some of the other photographers undoubtedly already did so, and the ones who did not perhaps will appreciate the reminder that they should have.

I'm not looking for any action photos in the house itself, that makes the guys nervous. 
I think the Burning Man rule of asking for permission to take a photo works. 
In fact, I set up areas away from the normal action to take stills of who ever wants photos, 
like beside the house under a tree, or even next door on a patio that doesn't get used.
So it's good for privacy.

We can even use my private room in the house. 

Let me make it clear, No One will have their photo taken without the expressed consent to do so. 
The Rules need discussion, it's FUN!
Like any other boundaries kind of action like Dominant/Sub, S&M, Role Play Game, Daddy-Son, etc.

If you see me with my Camera out, 
well then follow me where I'm leading if you want you photo taken.
 If you don't want your photo taken, Don't follow me! 

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The Original Healthy Friction JO Parties in LA

I just came upon the original invite to Healthy Friction, way back when,
It was a fund raiser for ActUp-LA, and the new (at the time) Queer Nation LA,
Here is the invite I handed out to cute guys in travels, either at my FAV Leather Bar at the time,
"The One Way", on Hoover in Silver Lake, or in the many (new to LA) protests, around the "Southland",
in these days ActUp was very sexy, and this was a way for me to promote JO as a Sexy Activity,
and the first one just in time for my Birthday in OCT 1989.

I left these invites on the table for the meetings of ActUp-LA
without telling anyone that was me on the Invite, oh it got talked about, oh so much...
ActUp culture required that we debate and converse whether this fundraiser would get the official endorsement during one of our usual TUE night meetings in West Hollywood Park, where there would be between 35-90 people in attendance. It was amusing to me, My getting to sell the idea of ActUp-LA promoting JO, which of course, is the original "Safe Sex", so of course, they did, but not without having to talk about masturbation for some 20 minutes, (sly grin), I was amused and aroused the entire time.

Later on, the photo I used of myself, from my Chad James film shoots, showed my curved dick, which got a lot of talk in the ActUp-LA gossip pages, also handed out on the table at our weekly meetings.
I loved the way it was argued about whether my dick curved up, down, or left!

Yes, I was the artist and creator of this invite, OCT 1989 edition, the very first Healthy Friction.

                                                                    For more info on Chad James:

                                                              http://chadjamesspeaks.blogspot.com/

                                                              https://groups.google.com/g/chadjames

Healthy Friction's google group:

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