Now, sex is too much or not enough. Phil can rarely form an opinion on whether the touch of another hand is pleasing. To most partners, he usually says, I’ve been having a hard time with sex lately. I had a weird-sort-of-non-consensual-encounter and have been getting in my head a lot. That’s OK, the other person would say, and they’d kiss him, but even the kissing would be too much, and kissing noises in films were too much too, and sex scenes were certainly too much, and a lover’s head on Phil’s shoulder felt like someone scaling the walls of a city to set it alight and Phil needed to pour
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