"Sounds good. Maybe we should check out a bookstore? And-- I don't know, what else do you think will change-- there's weirdly little outdoors fucking--"

"Bookstore for sure. And probably that's because all the comfy beds are indoors. Or is there some appeal of outdoor sex I'm not recognizing?"

"Exhibitionism? I don't know, I kind of thought a sextopia would have lots of public sex. Maybe not yours though."

Bookstore on the way to the train!

The bookstore has prominent displays about THE SCIENCE OF SEXUALITY and EVIDENCE-BASED TIPS FOR HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE: OUR EMPLOYEES RECOMMEND. 

The science section has also tripled in size and devoured the entire metaphysics section.

"Apparently my sextopia gives everyone good taste! Or deprives the people with bad taste of books so I don't have to look at any more guides on balancing my moon energies or whatever." He picks up the evidence-based tips on improving his sex life and checks out the table of contents.

1. Anatomy
2. The Dual Control Model
3. Context
4. Emotional Context
5. Cultural Context
6. Arousal and Arousal Nonconcordance
7. Desire
8. Orgasm
9. Meta-Emotions

Yeah alright he's nerd-sniped what's the dual control model?

Sexual arousal is based on the interaction between sexual inhibition and sexual excitation! Sometimes people run into trouble when they are turned off because of their sexual inhibitions (bodily insecurity, stress, messy floor) and then they try to increase their sexual excitation and it is like pressing the gas and the brakes pedal at the same time. You do not go anywhere. 

That seems to check out to the extent he can introspect on it! What's arousal nonconcordance?

Arousal nonconcordance is when you're hard or wet and you don't want sex. It is very common. There is about a 50% correlation between people with penises' genital sexual arousal and their subjective sexual arousal, and no correlation between people with vaginas' genital sexual arousal and their subjective sexual arousal.

What, no correlation? Vaginas just . . . get wet at random? He's rolling to disbelieve but if it's even close to true that has to be extremely annoying. 

Speaking of being annoying, he's reading this book without buying it and also ignoring Leia, who is right there, unless she's found another book to look at.

Leia is looking through the newly created section about men being forcibly turned into slutty women who have to have lots of sex with different men. She is blushing a very bright red but this does not actually stop her from looking through books.

It's good that her preferences are getting factored into whatever is happening with the world (probably it would be better if everyone's were but also that's kind of a scary prospect). Hopefully she doesn't actually want him to force her to do anything because that sounds like a great way to have a terrible time and also he's too awkward to ask about it in the first place.

"...Bruce, you're not just changing the sex parts."

"Uhh??" Oh shit, what's he done now. 

"Look at the books for kids. You, uh, seem to have gotten rid of all the flashcards and workbooks aimed at people under the age of about eight and replaced them with books about One Hundred Easy Science Experiments To Do With Your Children."

"Wow, I totally did. I guess if it's just workbooks and I haven't screwed the humanities-fan kids over on their leisure reading that sounds pretty good. . . . Possibly I need to seduce the Texas textbook committee for the greater good."

"I think probably more books about evolution than there were last time, also."

"Well, it goes so nicely with the theme, don't ya know." He holds up a copy of Doctor Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex.

"...oh, hey, look, sex education books for the teenagers. And"-- he looks across the bookshelves-- "Bruce, did you accidentally wind up banning Twilight?"

"I didn't mean to? I mean, if I had to ban a series I've never read. . . . But presumably it's not banned banned, just kicked out to make space."

"Seems at a glance like it's been replaced with a bunch of someone called Meg Cabot."

He checks out some jacket blurbs. "Huh. There's a chick who dates a ghost. I wonder what it would be like to date a ghost." He's aware that that might be tempting fate but fate doesn't seem to come in un-tempted anymore.

"Is there a perk for that?"

"Yes, but it was very ambiguous about whether it lets me date pre-existing ghosts or creates dateable ghosts out of nowhere and generally did not give enough information to determine whether it was a terrible idea or not."