Log 002 | Butt why? | audio un: NINES

[idealog]

[ He's done his reading. He's lurked around the Red Light district for answers. 9S has seen a lot recently, but he still doesn't know. It's an itch in his mind waiting for a good scratch, but observation and research hasn't quite done the trick. He's got the basics down, he thinks, but it still seems a little too personal to test the waters himself. Being physical with someone like that? He may as well give a stranger his personal decryption codes. He's made friends here and most people aren't so bad, but the vulnerability still bothers him.

9S is more than a little exasperated with wondering. The world, especially a new one like this, is full of so much else yet there's so much focus on that one activity. ]

Why are humans so obsessed with sex? Aren't there more interesting things to do?

[ Phrasing it like that might ease the "why are you so weird?" "i'm an android" part of a conversation, he thinks, but 9S realizes it's strange enough that people will be confused regardless. This was a terrible idea. Where's the delete function on this thing, anyway?

Sigh.]

At least it's not war, I guess.

[ Always a positive. ]

Comments

[idealog]

Troy... the Trojan Horse? That was about sex too? [ He recognizes the term, but his knowledge of human history is fuzzy that many millennia ago. ]

There's an emotional piece too.

[ Maybe. ]

[immeasurably]

You've never heard of Helen of Troy?

Sure but the way you phrased your question suggested you were less concerned with the emotional aspect than you were the physical draw.

[ And now you know. Aren't you glad? ]

[idealog]

She was way before my time. I've used Trojan Horses before, but I've never really thought about where the term came from.

That's a good point. The emotional aspect makes a little more sense to me than the physical I guess.

[ Maybe a little concerned. There's parts he doesn't want to go into. ]

[immeasurably]

I assume you're talking about the computer viruses and not actual wooden horses.

Funny. I think most people tend to understand biology before they come close to scratching the surface on things like emotional intimacy. Intimacy doesn't really need sex, though; it's more to do with trust. Feeling like you can be yourself with someone and they won't judge, even if they don't always understand.

[idealog]

Yeah! Though if we'd found a reason to use a wooden one, that'd be pretty neat.

I can't reproduce, so the biological piece of it wasn't something I thought much about. It didn't seem all that important until I got here. Sex is such a big deal. Intimacy is something I have a better understanding of.

[immeasurably]

Difficult to cram down a cable, though.

You're overthinking.