On and on went the strange and varied perversions, on and on as the confused Brad wandered deeper into the labyrinth, naked and unseen, ashamed and yet wildly, guiltily aroused. Eventually the dark walls opened out upon a broad, dimly lit chamber somewhere far below ground, where throngs of naked men milled about mysteriously, nearly shoulder to shoulder, unspeaking and yet somehow washed over with the muted murmurs of some great whispering multitude. Like the poor cuckolded husband, these other men sported enormous purple-headed erections sticking straight out, and yet all of them except himself were masked with close-fitting leather helmets that revealed only a narrow horizontal slit for the anonymous eyes, a vertical opening through which the nose projected, and a tiny open square behin
