The main thing I’ve learned from watching Masters of Sex has been a better understanding of the fact that allosexuals care waaay more about sex than any reasonable human being should.
I mean, every time Bill Masters talks about how he wants to cure sexual dysfunction to “save marriages”, I’m like “???”. It honestly seems really strange to me that someone would end a relationship because their partner isn’t able to have sex with them. It parses to me like “I’m sorry, honey, but I married you for your singing voice, and this sore throat bullshit has gone on long enough.” Like, sure, you do you - but I’m kinda sorta judgin y’all.
Also, like, people keep cheating on their spouses??? Why??? I can’t imagine promising to only sleep with one person and then breaking that promise, because I can’t imagine wanting sex more than I want to follow through with an “Um, sure, whatever” - much less faithfulness-including marriage vows. (I’m poly because I can’t stop falling in love with people; not because I can’t stop fucking them.)
All in all, Masters of Sex is a fascinating look into a world where people care about how frequently they stick organs in orifices. I recommend to anyone who’s as confused about that as I am.
Optimization thinks strongly-reactive-gray-asexuality-ish-ish-ness is the Objectively Optimal™ type of sexuality (to which The One Which Watches The Watchers responds: “subjectively, you one-example-generalizing fool!”) because it results in really low amounts of time spent on sex-related things (I kind of get where people’s interest in such stuff comes from because pre-HRT I was more allo-ish, but it felt like an unpleasant compulsion which is hijacking my brain to waste time on pointless things instead of the meaning of life or something like that) but allows great quantities of diversity of experience and positive novelty when someone who fits the criteria is like “hey, want to do X?” and I’m able to respond “okay sure” for a wide variety of activities ranging from hugging to things-that-accidentally-break-ribs.
So yes, very definitely confused. Unfortunately Masters of Sex is like 36+ hours and Optimization is screaming “you could use those hours writing your way to world domination instead of trying to comprehend the arcane customs of a weird species” so I’m going to do that thing instead.
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