"In my younger days, I was in 42 straight weddings, a few times as best man, but mostly as a groomsman. That came with lots of bachelor parties, which seemed to always end blurrily in a strip club, where I witnessed my fair share of lewd behavior. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter."
"In defense of my friends - well, most of them - they weren't so bad; however, there were some guys who were downright pigs, and when female-obsessed males find each other, we safely say that there's a lot of "locker room talk", as Donald Trump might say. It's inevitable, particularly if there's alcohol involved - although, for some guys, there doesn't need to be -"
Forty-two consecutive weddings were attended, mostly as a groomsman, accompanied by numerous bachelor parties that often ended in strip clubs where lewd behavior was observed. Some friends behaved respectfully, but others acted like 'downright pigs', and gatherings of female-obsessed men produced extensive locker-room talk. Alcohol frequently intensified such conduct but was not always required. Repeated observation of caddish men forming groups suggested a competitive escalation of misogynistic lewdness. The interaction between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein — whispering, laughing, and leering — was interpreted as mutual one-upmanship in perversion and as evidence of a shared, obsessive tendency to objectify women. A denial that Trump authored an obscene birthday letter was characterized as a grotesque lie consistent with longstanding language and behavior.
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