The door opens. A faint yet pleasant fragrance wafts through, and a woman(?) steps inside. She has long blonde hair in a loose braid, and is wearing a sarong and some kind of wrapped tube top, as well as a stud in each earlobe and three cartilege piercings in her right ear.
"This," Jayithasi says thoughtfully, "is not my studio."
"Most people are attracted to most other people. A lot of people are attracted to only a subset of genders, but I don't keep track of statistics."
"There's a minority of doms who like doms and subs who like subs and it's kinda awkward. Mostly doms and subs mirror and switches do both things."
"In practice people mostly date sadists if they're masochists and masochists if they're sadists. People who are both can date anyone and people who are neither try to find other neithers or compromise with a masochist."
"There's some small fraction of people who also have a gender preference, my world, but it's rare."
"I actually think it would make slightly more sense to have more opposite-sex monosexuality for evolutionary reasons but we don't. Maybe it's weirdly polygenic or something."
"It's complicating for people who feel strongly about wanting kids. We used to have cultural institutions expecting women to be subs and men to be doms strongly enough to skew most of the switches and a lot of insecure minority-role people, but those are breaking down."
"Yes, I suppose that would be. That's one of the advantages of our system, I think; even if you're only attracted to a subset of people it's still likely to include people you're interfertile with."
"To be mostly those, even. Like, the problem I'm envisioning isn't 'same-sex monosexual', that's pretty uncommon - regular people who want kids and prefer monogamy have to decide between being standoffish with same-sex people lest they get entangled, or risking having to make an awful compromise."
"On a population level it shakes out reasonably well because there is the skew each way. We're not about to die out."
"It was not, and I can't really do anything with the information either."
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