Those who have not experienced sexy community might be surprised to learn that there are a lot of nonsexual moments that occur within erotic spaces. If the image of the Hole that you have taken from these pages is one of a sleazy orgy, people having sex everywhere, then you might have emphasized the wrong aspects of the text in your mind, perhaps because of the difference the spaces have from heterosexual and homonormative community spaces. There is a lot more talking than sex. Naked intimacy isn’t exclusively sexual, and the erotic isn’t exclusive to the sexual act.
