"There's a cruelty to how you treat women, Keltham, and not the fun kind of cruelty either.  Telling women that - they have to feel a certain exact way, about you, that they have to do everything for exactly the right reasons, or you don't want them."

"I apologize to the women of Golarion.  For whatever it's worth, if we were in dath ilan, I would be expecting you to be the same way about men, and deciding that they needed to feel certain ways about you or you wouldn't let them offer sex to you."

"Keltham, what am I to do?  How can I be one of the girls who gets to lay with you in bed at night and have interesting conversations with you, and someday go with you when you leave Golarion?"

"I would understand how to navigate this conversation so much better if you were just asexual.  I would understand how my own gendertrope feels about hearing that if you were just asexual..."

"Are you?"

"You're, you're not doing the thing where, I have to say the exact probability I believe, because that gets the most reward, or loses the least.  All I would have to do right now is lie and say I'm asexual.  That would get the most reward.  Or lie and say that I just wanted to serve you and that was a sex thing for me."

"Truthspells would continue to be a thing."

"I could tell you I wasn't into truthspells, sorry, no."

"I might actually have been too suspicious, then, to the point where it interfered with my libido.  Too scared you would turn out to be lying.  I'm having enough trouble believing that everything is real, you faking that would really really really not have been good for me."

"I wouldn't actually, Keltham."

"Yes, among other things, Carissa would figure it out and then kill you."

"I wouldn't.  Okay?  I wouldn't.  I didn't know you'd even think it was a sex thing, I would've said so, you would've asked, it didn't actually almost happen."

"What sort of person are you attracted to, then, if you're not asexual?"

"I don't really know, I've been living up until this point surrounded by Asmodeans who I thought would hate me for the Nethys thing."

"But you don't think you're asexual?  There's allowed to be two people like that on the Project, if our lives aren't being run by tropes.  Asmodia may not even be taking up the item-slot, to the extent that there is one, which there hopefully isn't."

"I've felt lust a few times, just not really - towards anybody around me in particular that I'd have dared to sleep with."

"...I was also studying, which, you know, slack off on that, get eaten by demons later."

"But you don't think you can be attracted to me?"

"I don't seem to be.  I don't, in fact, want to have sex with you.  It seems not fair if that means I don't get to be with you.  I'd do it, happily, but that's not good enough for you!"

"You're also allowed to be, like, hey Keltham, how about if we spend some time clothed in a bed together, and have some long conversations, and see if both of us start liking each other, rather than that happening to you right away."

"Is that - a thing?"

"There was this one girl in my fiction-writing circle, who I'm not going to name, because I'm not going to have the only thing known about her on another planet being that, who believed that we should all just drop the table of gendertropes.  Who believed that gendertropes were dumb, and holding us back, and we should all just describe ourselves at length using the underlying ideas, instead of having standard libraries of ways to describe one another."

"I always thought that girl was wrong, but I never realized HOW WRONG until today."

"YES.  IT'S A THING.  IT'S A COMPLETELY STANDARD FEMININE GENDERTROPE."

"I was not in fact aware of this," Ione Sala says in complete and utter honesty.

Though, after a moment's reflection, she can see how it would literally never end up working like that between any two Asmodeans.  Asmodeans getting more exposure to other Asmodeans are not going to like each other, more, as a result of that.

"I shall duly permit you a moment to consider your new options in the light of this new information."

"...is there a way to tell in advance if that's going to work or not?"

"Not reliably, but it's conventionally considered a positive sign if you already want to follow around the boy forever for the rest of his life."