"Sexual liberation" is the title of this chapter's epigraph. It refers to the idea that each person is free to choose his or her own form of sexual love. In other words, each person has the right to choose what kind of love they want to express to each other. This chapter begins with a soliloquy about sexual liberation, in which the protagonist says that he is "so happy" that he has been invited to a restaurant by his boss, who is a friend of the protagonist's at university. The protagonist tells his boss that he's been thinking about cooking meatloaf tonight, since it is the boss's "favorite" . He asks his boss how he is doing, and the boss tells him that his friend is a "friend from" , and that he should get in touch with her. The boss tells the protagonist that his company's star employee is a homosexual and that she cannot go public about the fact that she is a member of the company because she is in love with a colleague. He says that if the news got out that he was a homosexual, the company would be laughed at, but that he would be free to express his love to his boss. He tells the boss that when he saw her at work that night, he wanted to show her a little kindness, so she could be relieved that he had left her. After that, he says, she had no problem having sex with him, but now that she has had her fill, she wants to know how she felt when she decided to do it. She asks him if he has any idea how he felt when he decided to have sex with her, and he tells her that he feels sure that she would do the same thing to him. He admits that he didn't know it was a sexual act, but he says that she said awful things to him, so he had no idea she was like this. He feels sorry for her,