It was sensual and passionate, without being pure porn. Don't get me wrong, I love porn but I don't always need to see it, and anyone who has had sex knows it rarely plays out the way it does in porn. Going further than Russell T Davies' Queer as Folk or Banana – previously the most daringly gay-sex-positive shows on TV – American Gods even showed an actual erect penis, albeit belonging to a CGI-rendered dream version of the Omani salesman (Omid Abtahi).
"We wanted to tell a very graphic story with the sex and sexuality," Fuller said. "And also tell a tale where a man comes from a country where homosexuality is punishable by death. For him most sexual experiences [would be] back-alley blowjobs, so the djinn is making love to him probably for the first time in his life so he can experience sexual love.
"It's an amazing, beautiful experience for a human being to have particularly when you consider how many men, women and genders in-between, don't, or can't, because of where they come from."
"It might be a little graphic for some people but it's natural," said Abtahi. "There's no hate. We're not trying to offend anybody. It's love."
Not loving enough for Fuller, who, it's claimed, ordered a reshoot because the scene wasn't real enough. "I was like, 'Okay, unless he has a 12-inch, candy-cane cock and can f**k around corners, his dick's not getting in him. So you guys need to go back and figure out where holes are,'" he said.
