Someone finally tries to handle Imi's pron!trauma...

[justanimitator]

[Soooo, this one time, Imitator!Len actually did make it to the library [though he doesn't know who the 'librarian' is yet...] ...mostly because it was a combination of rainy and snowy out, and he didn't like what it did to his clothing or running back to the bus to change (again).

As he is standing by the shelves, trying to figure out how everything is sorted and what to look for, he notices a familiar face...]

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[defender]

[Oh. Oh. And suddenly, complete understanding]

Pornography may be the depiction of sex, but sometimes it has little to no connection to sex between real people.

[justanimitator]

Aaaah, that's what Aku-san and Len-san said too. I mean...

....

Aaaaaah! It's all horrible, and gross, and wrong!

W-- why do people even want anything to do with it? It's bad.

[defender]

Well, if someone else has said it all already...

Perhaps you should try forgetting everything you already know about it.

[justanimitator]

I... I want to. I want to forget all of it it's bad, and s-- sex shouldn't be real.

A... a lot of other things weren't, so...

[defender]

Sex in itself is not inherently - [Stops.]

Perhaps you should consider therapy.

[justanimitator]

[sounding more than a little confused]

Um... what?

[defender]

I wouldn't put your emotional reaction to this situation anywhere near healthy.

[justanimitator]

[opens his mouth to say something along the lines of 'robots are healthy always', before parsing the first part]

...How... how was I supposed to react?

[defender]

[Calmly.]

Less scandalized.

[justanimitator]

......

But... but all the screaming, and crying, and begging, then someone dying or exploding...

the... the thing with the cup...

[defender]

[Ignoring the memories that description brings up.] That sounds less like sex and more like torture.

Not that I'm any sort of expert, but I'm quite confident the two should not be related at all.

There's that 'ashamed' feeling again....

[justanimitator]

They... they were in 'Erotic Dungeon Master 1 - 5', and um, 'Caged Sluts vs The Tentacle Beast', and 'The Beast That Fucks and Kills', and um...

[he could probably list these all day]

[defender]

Stop. Please.

There goes my appetite for the day.

[justanimitator]

..............

[defender]

[And while this is most definitely not the sort of thing she wants to be discussing before lunchtime, she'd be doing a great disservice to the rest of the world if he goes on talking about this, so --]

Len... you and I need to have a very, very long talk about this.

[justanimitator]

[...he made someone upset again, didn't he?

Len fidgets]


We-- we do?

[defender]

[Brushes her bangs back.]

Yes. Yes, we do. [oh god how does she even start with this.]

You see, sex... and whatever pornography you saw... are only related to each other in that sex was depicted in -- whatever you saw. Brutalized and taken to a level I hope I never have to see in my life, but depicted nonetheless.

[for emphasis] You cannot... assume that one equates to the other.

[justanimitator]

Y... you said that earlier. And Aku-san and Len-san did too...

I still don't understand, though. What it... 'it' is really supposed to be.

[a long pause]

I... I don't think I want to understand. I don't want to know anything about it! [a strange statement coming from this Len, probably?]

[defender]

I'm not capable of forcing you to learn anything you don't wish to know.

As long as we're clear on the matter of the two not being the same thing.

1/2

[justanimitator]

I... I understand.

[justanimitator]

......

[defender]

...I don't wish to press the issue, but you don't seem satisfied.

[justanimitator]

Just... just...

Why? I don't understand why anyone would... do those horrible things...

[defender]

...a question I have often asked myself to no avail.

Some people do terrible things. Motivated by necessity, greed, revenge... thankfully, here in the dressing room, justice tends to overpower corruption.

[A hint of a blush, suddenly talking much more quickly.] As for normal sex I'm - told it's quite pleasurable - the practical purpose is for reproduction within the human race.

[justanimitator]

I'm glad.

I mean... I... it's good to be alive. And in the 'world', so I don't... um, understand hurting each other. Aren't they happy too?

.....

Sometimes, it didn't look like they were having f-- fun. But, I guess that's because it... wasn't like real, um, sex, right?

[blinkblinkblinks]

...Reproduction?