From the search for a married woman, a gay club and a threesome, Brandon reaches indiscriminate options for his sexual addiction. In one of the crucial scenes, he was having sex with a prostitute but the entire shot was a close-up of his facial expression. The painful, helpless and guilty and shameful look on his face implies the parasitism of monstrosity. There's no trace of pleasure on his face and yet he can't stop. He has to indulge in sex non-stop, even when his mind rejects sex. Halberstam explains it this way: “Parasitism, especially as it pertains to the vampire, represents a bad or pathological sexuality, a non-reproductive sexuality, a sexuality that exhausts, wastes, and exits before and outside of the marriage contract” (Halberstam 17). His tired face and craving for sex and at the same time resentful of the idea of marriage are the embodiment of parasitism. His sexual activity can be interpreted as a way to escape his complicated feelings with Sissy. Furthermore, he would not even want to have a relationship with any woman, because his intention is to lose himself in a world without limits. He carries his addiction like a conscious weight on his shoulders. One after another, his bond with the woman is based solely on sex and the search for sex. Furthermore, the Freudians suggest
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