Stag-nation

Damian Johnson, a full-time security guard, part- time smut aficionado and drunk, tells us in his own 95,000 word opus “STAG-NATION”, or “why you should not date a stripper”.
Aside from Damian’s size, XXLT (or in his mind “tall and fat”), his only exceptional assets are the ability to manipulate people or the “business acumen” his father taught him. Damian is blessed with the house his father gave him and the use of a yacht he maintains for his father. Damian hates his father, especially the less honourable way that his father does business. Damian does his best to avoid using this inherited talent, preferring instead to be a slacker with dreams of taking strippers sailing. The reality is that he spends most of his time getting f****d up while playing video game hockey with his deviant, co-dependant best buddy Trevor.
STAG-NATION follows Damian as he falls in love with Janette, a lap dancer that looks like Betty Page. Damian pays for a lap dance with Neyt (Janette’s stage name) while going sailing and for drinks with Janette, unable to figure out if he is really going out with Janette or just paying for Neyt. During the courtship, Damian struggles to keep up with the false reality constructed by GQ and Maxim when he is a fat man with a Honda and reads Hustler.
Damian becomes entangled in all the trite but true realities associated with the sex industry as the relationship deepens – addiction, abuse, self hated, co-dependence - baggage Damian already carries from years of his father calling him “tons of fun” and “fatty”. Meanwhile, Damian attempts to maintain his day- to- day life working as a security guard. The closer Damian gets to Janette, the more alcohol and Trevor get in the way. Damian enters into a downward spiral, catapulting between two conflicting worlds which become increasingly difficult to separate. It ends badly. A “romance noir” as Damian likes to think of it.