She met a man who for years of his life had had sex with a different partner almost every day, whoever he chanced to meet. Sex in bathrooms, sex in elevators, sex with men, women, couples, sex with toys or without, very Oliver Stone. Now he has a wife and a new baby and he lives in an expensive part of town and goes to meetings like AA meetings, except instead of alcohol they talk about lust. I've been clean almost seven years, he told Sara.

What was the cure? she asked.

Gravity, he said.