"Indeed, it's a sex act I've been specifically conditioned into liking!"

"...I'm not going to like my inevitable fate."

"That's a lie. You're going to love it."

"That's true."

Leah stood up and stretched. "I think the kind of sex I would like right now is you grooming my wings, giving me a back massage, and rubbing my feet. After that, we can have sex by watching TV together while I play with your hair with my tail. I'm also contemplating whether it counts as sex if I make you clean my bathroom. I think so as long as you're wearing a cute little houseboy outfit while you do it."

"What if I don't want to clean your bathroom?"

"You can turn down sex, because you don't have Free Use. That said, the thought of you having Free Use is pretty arousing and is making me consider whether I instead want to have sex in a more conventional sense. I think I want my wings to be groomed first."

Caiden pulls up a chair and begins to straighten her feathers.

"Ah. You're really good at this for someone who hasn't interacted with a winged person before."

"I try my best."

"People fetishize a truly astonishing number of different activities. I'm starting to suspect that, if I'm sufficiently expansive in my porn consumption, I'll discover that literally every two-person activity can be conceptualized as sex. Oh, keep doing that. That's delightful. Honestly, I could probably get by just with conceptualizing not having sex with people as a form of sex, but that feels like a waste of humanity's vast collective sexual creativity. Your hands are very good. I do think I have to not have sex with people in a particularly sexy fashion for it to count. I can't just deny a man a blowjob. I have to make a point of how he could get a blowjob from me, but I have chosen to deny it to him. I don't think I can turn down sex in a way that's particularly professional or appropriate for meetings. I guess I have Professionally Beautiful helping me out there."

"Yeah, probably the guy telling you to suck him off at work is the one behaving unprofessionally. This good?"

"It's lovely." And she doesn't talk for a while, her thoughts lost in Caiden's deft hands. 

"I do worry that you'll get so good at reconceptualizing sex that you won't need a Sex Babysitter."

"I guess I'll just have to keep you around because you're cute."

A year later--

Leah pushes away from the desk, pulls Caiden to his feet by his hair, and kisses him. "I got the last bit. We now understand the function and workings of every part of the human brain. It's convenient that we have all of this ridiculous mind control running around. Some of these puzzle pieces would have been very hard to fill in without being able to brain-scan a bunch of very specific bimbos."

"I'm glad there's some benefit to ridiculous mind control."

"All things considered, ridiculous mind control has worked out well for me! --Remind me what my schedule is for tonight."

"Asher's coming over, I'm going barhopping."

"I feel disappointed that I'm only going to get one bizarrely oversized cock inside me, and I feel stupid and entitled about feeling disappointed because I get to have sex with you a lot."

"Aww!" He kisses her cheek. "You're still my favorite."

"I feel annoyed that it's an improvement on my relationships to be magically forced to voice all my insecurities. I would feel much better about hating Speaking Your Mind if it also made my relationships worse. I also feel annoyed that all along relationship self-help advice book writers were correct that the secret is communication."

"Love you too."

"I feel annoyed that bars are on the verboten list, even though I'd probably still find them dark and loud and sensorially unpleasant and I still hate being drunk. I want to share in your favorite activities and not inevitably wind up shared around like a party favor. In general, I hate how much Free Use limits my life, even though I rarely left the house to begin with. I wish I had the option to leave my house even if I definitely didn't want to be gangbanged. At least I have a tail." She boops him with a tail.