Understandable and I’m glad you already talk to a therapist about this. Can’t really control how others behave so sometimes avoidance is the best option. Hope you figure your way through this and get to enjoy going out with your friends soon!

Yes, strap-on tails were common back then. Funnily enough, the original ones were developed by hunters to help them blend in with other animals. As time went on they were adopted by women as a symbol of counter-culture like “women can also hunt” kinda thing. They would often bejewel them as a sign of wealth.

Do you feel a disconnect between how you look and how you want to look? I don’t have agoraphobia but I do have some social anxiety that has caused me to skip out on a lot of events and I would recommend getting it under control or at least understanding how to manage it sooner rather than later before it spirals. There’s also a mantra I like to keep in mind when I feel overly self concious “those that mind don’t matter, those that matter don’t mind”

They found some kind of hip harness with a phallic looking tail attached so I think they were simply ancient cosplayers and this is one big confusion. Gay people only started turning up when big pharma made us inject nanobots disguised as “covid vaselines” or whatever, I unno, I’m not a diseasologist but I’ve learned a lot from facebook.

Plot twist: Francis doesn’t have a therapist