This is the last scene before the climax of the play. It is a scene in which the audience is introduced to the character of the "stud man" , who is in love with his "body but wants it" . He tells his lover that he does not want to have sex with another man, but that he wants to make love to someone else. The scene is interrupted by the sound of someone's voice, and the audience realizes that this is the voice of the narrator. The narrator tells the audience that he was once a "plain an man" and that the man whom he loves is now "always loved" by his friends and family. He explains that he is going to "scar" his "bright and shining body" with the "boring and uninteresting self" so that he can "be continued"