It’s year two of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, and we’ve reached the part in the tragicomedy where an intimate description of the leader of the free world’s genitalia looms on the dark horizon. In a 60 Minutes segment that aired Sunday, Anderson Cooper questioned Stormy Daniels, the porn performer born Stephanie Clifford, about her alleged affair with Trump and the subsequent cover-up (President Trump denies the affair, but his attorney Michael Cohen has admitted to paying $130,000 for her silence).

In the interview, Daniels told Cooper the details of the alleged Trump mating ritual, including a prospective appearance on Celebrity Apprentice, his comparison of Daniels to his daughter Ivanka, and the president’s spanking preferences. That’s a lot of ground! Arguably too much ground for a primetime news magazine with an Elite Eight lead-in! And yet there was, evidently, more ground.

According to Daniels’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, who sat for a follow-up interview Monday morning on Today with Savannah Guthrie, 60 Minutes chose not to air a “number of details and facts” from the two-hour interview, which was whittled down significantly. “She was prepared to discuss intimate details relating to Mr. Trump,” he told Guthrie. “She can describe his genitalia.”

Even before this admission from Avenatti, it seemed unavoidable that some sort of prurient media would enter into our collective conscious over the course of litigation. Days prior to the segment’s air date, he tweeted a photo of a CD, saying, “If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ how many words is this worth?????” He left what “this” was up to the imagination, and both he and Daniels declined to discuss what sort of “proof” she had saved on both 60 Minutes and the Today show, or to confirm if she’d saved any at all.

Oh boy. Bill Clinton had the decency to wait until his second term to invite a detailed accounting of his bathing-suit area; Lyndon Johnson had the sense of historical scope to leave such details to the posthumous biographies. But as with all things Trump, this development is arriving well ahead of precedent. At this point, in the 14th month of the administration, this feels like the B-movie plot development we saw as soon as the title card dropped. Shhh, we say to anyone who will listen, this is the part where an adult-film actress describes the president’s penis in gruesome detail.