I think I read somewhere that Becker and Fagen did intend this to be a song promoting condom use (and actually stated as much).... But I still like to interpret it as a song about someone with a weird fetish and the need to roleplay a certain way to get off ("I wanna be your holy man")--makes it a funny song to me, and more in keeping with the band's general wry sense of humor which I've come to love about them. Somehow public service announcements (even subtle ones) seem out of character for them.
I think I read somewhere that Becker and Fagen did intend this to be a song promoting condom use (and actually stated as much).... But I still like to interpret it as a song about someone with a weird fetish and the need to roleplay a certain way to get off ("I wanna be your holy man")--makes it a funny song to me, and more in keeping with the band's general wry sense of humor which I've come to love about them. Somehow public service announcements (even subtle ones) seem out of character for them.
@Ulkesh Maybe at that line we come back with the idea of him being a Shriner who refuses to do anything without the Fez, even sex.
@Ulkesh Maybe at that line we come back with the idea of him being a Shriner who refuses to do anything without the Fez, even sex.