"Subjective. Uh, if we show up and they ask nothing at all and we explain everything we're okay but they'll almost certainly demand to know our business and the difference between 'demand to know our business, we explain everything' and 'demand to know our business, we explain a little bit and they ask clarifying questions' is pretty small."

"Damn. Do enough people know how to read that you could fling a pamphlet at them and flee?"

"It'd be stupid to read it, if someone did that."

"Riiight. I'll get a sense for this eventually. Uh, what kinds of things will tend to be on offer for the introduction?"

"Some places might have books, or stories, or musicians, or information about who else might have a human we can buy off them. I do not really understand what was communicated to me of your objections to sex but if I'm travelling with you I can accept sexual favors for payment if that's not objectionable. Courts'd want to negotiate this before they let us give the explanation, they're in a vulnerable position if they're in our debt and we haven't got a plan to fix that."

"I do not have an objection to sex in general and can try to explain it and then we can try to figure out whether this objection is tripped by the scenario you describe."

"We go to a court! We say that we have valuable information and goods to trade and sincerely expect that they'll be glad of arranging to trade with us. We ask what they have. They do not have books or stories we don't already have, they do not have humans, they ask if we'll pick out someone from a set of people, I talk with the people, I find someone, he or she pays us for the information and goods, we give them the information and goods."

"How is the set of people determined?"

"Mostly by expertise at getting the numbers to come out right, typically."

"How does one typically come by that expertise?"

"A lot of practice?"

"Which one has for what reason?"

" - usually because they like it? People tend to specialize in stuff they enjoy, and it's in particular hard to be good at sex if you aren't all that into it."

"Usually?"

"I mean you could imagine someone who got sort of stuck in that career path because they never found anything they liked better despite not liking it all that much?"

"This is not a central case of the thing I object to, then, although it's still not, like, delightful."

"I'm still not very clear on - the bits of the thing you object to that aren't encompassed by 'people having lousy choices' or 'people being misinformed about their choices'."

"Humans may have psychological architecture about sex in particular that faeries just don't - I'm not sure whether it's that or culture or a mix."

"I've never actually talked to any humans beyond the tests today so I couldn't guess."

"I'm not sure where you'd reasonably get uncontaminated information even if you talked to humans all the time."

"Some people raise human babies in faery courts."

"That sounds like a terrible idea!"

"It's accordingly rare! But not unheard of."

"It probably hasn't happened often enough to generate very good statistics even if everyone were scrupulously taking data, anyway. Anyway - there are humans who will even in conditions of general abundance and freedom take up a profession of distributing sexual services, though this group is smaller than the group who'll fall into it if they'll otherwise starve. This set of humans isn't identical with the population of humans who just like sex in general - those more likely either find plenty of it as a nontransactional hobby, or can't because they lack in one or more attractive traits and have to buy it since no one would buy it from them. Motives humans might have for unpressuredly choosing to go into the line of work might include directly kinking on it, picking up a variant on the career where they spend many occupational hours attending parties and doing other high status things with their clients before getting around to the sex, or being generous of spirit toward the sort of person who is not attractive enough to find non-transactional partners... I'm probably missing some since I haven't specifically studied this. Humans without any of these unusual motives - well, the parties thing isn't an unusual motive really but it's usually not decisive - humans without these motives often prefer to have sex with only people they're in ongoing romantic relationships with, frequently expressly preferring that they and their partner not be having sex with anyone else. Plenty of humans do like non-relationship-oriented sex but even those ones tend to be turned off by the idea that any of the value they're providing in the encounter is not located in the sex or their company itself."

"Huh. Uh, people will assert that sex is better when you love someone but in the same spirit as conversation is better, or watching theatre is better, or doing chores is better. I don't think I know anyone who tries to only have sex with one person though some people are really picky about what they like and prefer a very small number of partners for that reason."