My business partner and our clerk are heterosexual. Recently I bought and we’ve been selling a bunch of Colt Studios stuff: nude photos of big, muscular gay porn stars. The guys I work with don’t blink, make stupid jokes. They just accept it as they do the books of poetry and the rock CDs. The penises bother them not a particle.

But there are always the types who are kind of skittish about other guys’ equipment, and it makes me laugh. “AAAAAAAA IT’S A PENIS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!” I think it’s partially due to the expectation by society that men be manly-man lumberjack types; they’re probably afraid of being seen as less manly, less attractive, if they in some way acknowledge someone else’s hardware.

I was recently told about an exhibition in the UK of models of rock stars penis’(what is the plural?). The viewer of them was struck by how similar they all were too his own. Indicating to me both his relief and lack of previous exposure to other men.