GERALD WORKING BEHIND THE BAR. PATRICK SITTING ON A STOOL IN FRONT OF IT, DRINKING A CIDER.

GERALD: The first thing you've got to realise is that they want it as much as you.

PATRICK: You think so?

GERALD: I know so. I mean you hear all that stuff about girls not liking it as much and girls being harder to arouse but listen, I know - they want and they need it. Just like you and me.

PATRICK: I don't know.

GERALD: You've got to stop thinking it's all your fault - it's not. I mean sometimes you're doing everything right and the girl's the one with problems. Like I slept with this girl once and we did it for hours - and I mean hours - and she still didn't come. Now that's not my fault is it? It's hers. I wake up later and she's having a wank. She starts screaming: "Gerald!