Gary Shteyngart

I'm not taking TRT, bro.

We want to live because we want to enjoy.

We want to be hot because we want love and children.

And this severing of all of these urges from the things the urges are supposed to do, this severing of the pursuit of desire from the thing the desire is supposed to... It's incredible.

Taking testosterone to look good, to attract a mate, but at the same time, you know, taking all this testosterone causes shrunken testicles, right?

which probably will not allow you to propagate.

So, you know, these things are completely at odds, and at the same time, it's almost like a perversion of whatever strange biological instinct we had.

Clavicular is one of my favorites when it comes to this, because he's just really funny, unintentionally so.

You know, he'll talk about how knowing that he can have sex with a woman, a given woman, is way more important for him than actually having sex with the woman.

Oh, it's the ranking, the mogging.

The mogging, the ranking.

But, you know, and so it's like...

But wasn't sex supposed to be enjoyable, especially when you're 21?

I remember, you know, it took me a while until I started having sex.

But when I did, I was like, this is the most incredible thing that's ever happened to me.

I don't care if I die tomorrow.

If I keep having this, you know, for the next 24 hours, this is this is kind of it.

You know, I'll give you another example, which is a little strange.

But so I've been teaching creative writing at Columbia for about 20 years now.

And I've noticed the way and my students are wonderful.