In Cock, John is caught between two loves: his long-term boyfriend, with whom he shares an apartment and a family life, and a recent female lover, with whom he shares a few nights of passion and compatible values. Figuring out what he wants is hard enough—especially for a guy who can barely decide what to eat for breakfast—but the situation becomes even more complicated when characters around him disregard his feelings as a “blip” of “confusion,” and demand that he sexually, politically, and philosophically “work out what you are.” Everyone asks him, “Who are you really?” John can only respond, “Why are you telling me that what I sleep with is more important than who I sleep with? Why are you telling me I have to know what I am?”