It's cold outside, so the narrator goes to his apartment to wait for his friend. He tells the narrator that he went to see an adult movie and that the sex scenes were just as intense as those in "pink movies." The narrator explains that pink movies don't allow the actors to show their genitals on the screen, so they have to cover them up with makeup. He also explains that there was a time when customers demanded "more extreme sexual scenes" in pink movies, too, but "pink did not have to compete with adult movies, which had "the real deal" . The narrator says he'll never talk about work again if his friend won't let him.