VIII: Deliah

But oh, those dangling secrets can be enfolded by shrewd science. I've seen hermaphrodites before, but the camera stood away from them at a sexless, embarrassed distance and the bodies seemed crude paste-ups, both stiff and slack and in all the wrong places, but this Deliah with her delicately Semitic nose and her limbs sprawled for pleasure has a cock prouder and thicker than my own and instead of balls a cunt. I suspect that icons of Deliah are casually displayed in some culture I know nothing of. I know what pleasures she could give me, but what would her sexuality teach mine to say?