Not many people can say that they have interacted with Charli XCX. Even fewer people can say that the British pop powerhouse may have seen their genitalia. I moved to London as a twenty year-old wide-eyed queer boy who dreamed of taking the city by storm. New and friendless in the Big Smoke, I downloaded Tinder and got to work.

Over two thousand years ago, ancient Greek philosopher Plato theorized that there were four possible activities of the mind. The first two, which consisted of contemplative thought and discursive reasoning are considered good by Plato. The second two, which consisted of art and using your imagination were rendered worthless by him. They are simply mimesis (an imitation of reality); they don’t involve the truth.