I would have called Mailer a latent homosexual based on his fascination with buggery but that would be to slander homosexuals who are not sexually stuck in adolescence. In spite of his own belief that his every utterance was golden, he was a purile hack who enjoyed the lionization of other middle aged narcissists and college kids (who at least come by their narcissism honestly as an ordinary phase of maturation).
RIP Mailer. You should have stuck with engineering. Perhaps you could hae expressed your “rebellion” by building falling bridges. Then people would have recognized your fakery and you would have died a penniless drunk, a fitting end.