The Interrogation

By Beverly Greene

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The woman held the glass up to my lips and I gladly gulped down the water, feeling its cooling, soothing effect on my throat almost immediately. She sat the empty glass on the table and began her eerie circling again.

"Have you told the woman that you are currently dating about your previous affairs with men?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I have."

"Did you tell her about the disgusting things that you did with them?"

"What disgusting things? I didn't go into details, no. I didn't think that it was necessary."

"Do you think that she would still wish to sleep with you if she knew the kinds of things that you have done with men? If she knew where your mouth has been? If she knew what had been inside of your body? If she knew what had been left there?"

"What? I....I don't know. I assume that she knows what heterosexual sex usually entails so I'm assuming that she knows those things already without me having to tell her!"

"But you were ashamed to give her the details, is that what you're saying?"

"No. Maybe. No. I just didn't think that it mattered. I didn't give her details about my previous female lovers either, so why would I tell her intimate details about my past male lovers?"

"You consider the men that you slept with 'lovers'?"

"Well, yea, I mean, that's what they were, right?"

"If you could go back right now, with all that you know, would you still have dated those men?"

"I don't know! I mean, if I could go back right now with all that I know, I wouldn't really be the me that I was at that time, would I? No, I'd be the me that I am now. The me that I am now does not date men. However, the me that I was then did because I was too afraid to think about the other possibility and what that might mean."

"So, would you or would you not date those men if you could go back?"

"I can't answer that. If I was the exact same age and at the exact same phase in my life, then yes, I guess I would. If I knew all that I have learned since then, then, no I probably wouldn't. But those are two completely different situations."

"Do you ever talk about your experiences with the men that you dated?"

"What do you mean 'experiences'? Do you mean relationship experiences or sexual experiences?"

"Both."

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