>>By
>>the end of "SoS2:7:Ceremony & Celebration", Kate and Juri have
>>apparently consummated their relationship. That just creeps me out.
>>Honestly. Couldn't they do it *between* stories? And for
>>balance, yes, the first encounters in UF1 creeped me out too.
>
>The fuck, man? Are you that easily squicked? I mean, it's not like the
>entire sequence of events was described in minute detail, in
>either situation.

Yeah, now that you mention it, this did strike me as pretty funny. I mean, I've always considered myself some what timid about depicting the sex lives of my characters. When I wrote Exodus 2:4: The Day the Universe Changed, I hesitated for some time wondering whether to release it as it came out, but finally decided that I had to - the dialogue that ran through it was too important to leave out, and revamping the sequence to tame it down would have - if you'll pardon the expression - emasculated it. So I left it, and fretted about it.

As it happens, I've got a couple of bits planned for later parts of the Symphony that tread similar terrain. It comes with the territory, I think - as I've already said (or tried to say, anyway), love and sex, both connected and exclusive of each other, are critical themes here, and there's no escaping them. Not for me, and (if you keep reading) not for you. I'm a little uncomfortable with the notion - I was raised in New England and there's part of my soul that will always be Puritan no matter how the rest of me rails against it - but I'm pressing on anyway because I think it's important, not because I'm going for cheap thrills.

So consider this fair warning: it won't end here. It's not a story about sex, and I promise never to use the word "cum", but I'm not going to shuffle these matters off screen, because

a) that's narratively dumb - what am I supposed to do if I move it to "between stories" as suggested, open the next part with "While we weren't looking, something naughty happened"?

b) Well, I've already covered b above, so I suppose I don't need to go into it again, except to reiterate one more time: it's important.

--G.
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