Drew Nellins Smith

“It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.”

“Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didn’t know the difference between the two, but this was more conveniently located, and anyway love wasn’t his addiction.”

“It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.”

“I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.”

“Real men don’t need porn.”

“They were looking at videos, and the woman was giggling quietly, as they often do in porn stores, unable to believe what they’re seeing, the monuments men have built to vaginas and to the very notion of sex.”

“I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.”

“People appeared to have no clue how truly horrible they were.”