Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

Yeah, no photographs.

Yeah.

a few, you know, hand-drawn illustrations.

Later, he did bring out Man Watching.

Man Watching, which was like a coffee table book with colour pictures and pictures of apes and all that.

And it was a huge international bestseller.

And that was the kind of thing everybody bought for their dad, you know, in 1985 for Christmas or something.

But anyway, we had The Naked Ape, which is like this dusty tome.

And so it went through everything about humans as if they were just describing animals.

All your various systems and your health and where we came from and how we evolved and, you know, how our gut works and whatever.

But it also had a chapter on human sexuality.

And within that chapter, it had a little bit about homosexuality.

And Desmond Morris described what a homosexual was in like the...

driest, crustiest anthropology language.

Describe what a homosexual was and what they did to each other, to an extent.

And it was the most exciting thing I'd ever read in my life.

It was like pornography.

It was written with electricity, you know.

And I kept going back and reading this dry, crusty old prose about it.

Because for the first time ever, it was actually...