Someone once asked Bobby whether, all joking aside, he would actually have sex with a man up here. “Of course,” Bobby said. “It would be gay not to.” “Gay not to?” O’Byrne demanded. “What the fuck does that mean?” Bobby launched into a theory that “real” men need sex no matter what, so choosing abstinence can only mean you’re not a real man. Who you have sex with is of far lesser importance. The men knew it made no sense—Bobby’s weird brilliance—but no one could quite formulate a rebuttal. The less fighting there was, the weirder things got until men literally moved around in pairs in case
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