Denis O'Hare plays a closeted con artist with a 13-inch penis on American Horror Story: Freak Show. But the out actor reveals that the endowment is "actually a burden," one that symbolizes an underlying issue.

"It marks Stanley as abnormal," O'Hare told Out. "Being a gay in the 1950s is abnormal. It's an exploration of what is normal."

And it's exactly that kind of layered storytelling that keeps O'Hare coming back to the AHS franchise, he explains. "What I love about American Horror Story is it's never just a gag (pardon the pun), there's more to it." "The writing is fresh, exciting, irreverent, and shocking. And what we're asked to do is really a challenge."

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While we have yet to see what ultimately becomes of Stanley and his prodigious unit, O'Hare offered a tease to tide us over: “There’s a funny element to it that pops up—again, pardon the pun—in Episode 9."

Until then, we have all the sexy we needed this season packed into last week's erotic homage to American Psycho.