Idk, reading through that it felt like the french dude probably had an inkling but was in denial about it. He had slept with men up until that point and was probably just glad he found someone who, at least from the outside, fit the gender he thought/was told he should be attracted to.
Either that or the dude was just really, really clueless about female genitalia (which, also not impossible if he had only been with men prior). Men today will still say women only have two holes down there so really that not that shocking in a time when sex ed was probably even worse than it is now.
Editing to add that this triggered a memory of reading a story about a hetero couple who had explicitly only had sex in the woman’s urethra for like 30 years or something??? People are fuckin whack man idk.
Editimg again because I was curious. It was 52 years and I cannot believe I remembered a random post from fucking r/wtf from 14 years ago. Anyway, in my search I found that apparently urethral coitus is a (super rare) thing and usually because of a medical condition so I apologize for calling those people weird.
At least at my work there was pretty genuinely no workaround. The service desk group chat was mostly just sharing memes and making jokes about it cause wtf else you gonna do.
As a general rule though, if it’s something legitimately out of your control, don’t stress. The bosses don’t gaf about you, so you have to gaf about you.