I sat down on one of those long benches that they have in locker rooms
and fiddled with the nearest lock,
grimacing as if I had forgotten the combination,
_____while all around me men undressed."

Shelly had just taken a sip of beer,
and she was laughing so hard that it went down the wrong way.
"A serious sociological project," I continued.
"I am writing a term paper on how men feel about their bodies,
and there are things I need to know.
Do they get erections in the locker room?
Is it a phenomena that they discuss among themselves?
How do they express their feelings?"

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