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It doesn't matter, but it's still more amusing than his nonexistent show is at the moment.I've got one theory about how Nick could believe that Lester could have been "saved" by having sex with the 16 year girl.
The idea would be that if Ricky's father had seen Lester having sex with a 16 year old when he came to the house to kill Lester, he would realized that Lester was straight and would not have killed him.
I don't think that really works in terms of the film's plot, but I can see that as being something Nick would attach himself to.
I think its possible to make a more convincing libertine argument that what killed Lester was his refusal to embrace ultimate "freedom" and to have sex with a man.
None of this really matters. As has been said before, the film is an ink blot test where people can find any meaning they choose to find in it.
The thing about libertines (using depictions of them from de Sade's Justine as an example) is that they knowingly and willfully pursue their highly specific deviant desires without any regard for decency or what anyone else wants, so Lester deciding to fag out at the last minute wouldn't make sense from that perspective because that would be a loss of agency on his part. His reoccurring fantasy throughout the movie is an imagined version of an "ideal" teenage girl so being sucked into someone else's homosexuality out of left field like that wouldn't be an action that was true to himself. The whole gay subplot of the movie is probably the most oscar-baity aspect of it because it's transparent red meat for the lowest grade of arthouse fags in Hollywood.