A tradies battered old ute carries the tone of work — a space that’s both practical and intimate. Its surfaces — metal, dust, fabric, and heat — become. The tray suggests exposure: open air, the sound of gravel underfoot, a view of sky and distance. It can host moments of rough playfulness, sitting side by side, or watching someone move against the light. In the tray characters can try different positions like doggy style with hands on the cabin, straddling cowboy, 69. Characters can also rest and lie down in the tray. The cabin, by contrast, is confined and close — heavy air, faint oil scent, the sound of breath and seat creak. It heightens proximity; shoulders brush, hands rest too long, a silence fills the space where words won’t. Here sex positions are more difficult to manoeuvre in, oral can only be given or taken one by one, hand jobs and mutual jacking. Outside the Ute characters can lean on the hood as the bend over to take it from behind, the cabin doors can be used to hide from surrounds, someone can sit on the bonnet facing thier lover as they get fucked. In daylight, the ute feels public, risky, connected to labour and heat. At night, it becomes private — headlights cutting through dust, bodies lit by dashboard glow, the hum of the engine soft beneath conversation. The ute embodies the erotic energy of practical masculinity.