The Boyfriend App
This plants the seeds of a half-formed, completely irrational fantasy in Kate’s mind about how the State and premier university is like one big frat.
The first thing Kate ever learned about the University of the Philippines was its famous statue, The Oblation. It depicts a stark naked man with face upturned to the sky and his arms outstretched and palms up. Apparently, it symbolizes academic freedom, selfless devotion or some-such sacrifice. But for Kate who doesn’t watch a lot of porn and whose fleeting glimpses of eroticism in movies are all just steamy or fade-to-black (if the scene ever got too explicit, Mrs. Lapuz would tell her to cover her eyes), the statue’s nakedness with the except