![]() ![]() On the very next page, “balking” at the sex details he has just described, Monette paraphrases a friend living with AIDS and asks, “Is this more than you want to know?” The answer comes from the same friend: “Rub their faces in it, Paulie. I recount these descriptions for a reason, and so does Monette. In the scene, Monette writes frankly about the man’s “horse dick poised … in the clench of my virgin pucker,” and realistically about the accompanying pain - “ sitting on a fireplug” - as well as the next day’s cramps. When I read their sex scene, I was shocked by what I had read - not because of its content, but because I couldn’t believe it was published in 1992, and had won a national literary award. ![]() Standing at the railing overlooking Trafalgar Square, Monette is cruised by a man several years older, an ex-sailor who hadn’t returned to the U.S. It happens in London, during the summer before his senior year at Yale. Halfway through his National Book Award-winning memoir “Becoming a Man,” Paul Monette ’67 writes about his first time bottoming during sex. ![]()
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