"No, nothing like that." God, was he acting that badly? He frowns as he reluctantly stands to follow his LSP. The worse he's been exposed to are his brother and father's disparaging words to anyone that didn't fit their preferred mold and comments into his (lack-of) love life. Nothing traumatic though now he wonders how much of that's been internalized over the years.

"I can't just start jerking off," he finally says as he sits on the edge of the bed behind the partition. He can't believe he's even about to ask this. "Do you... have anything that might help get things, ah, started?"