You have a choice to make, right now.
One choice is: Great love. The greatest, heart filling, soul enriching, warm and fulfilling love that anyone has ever known. The downside, unfortunately, is that you will only have pleasant sex. Nothing kinky, earth shattering or special. Just…nice.
The other choice is: Great sex. Mind blowing, decadent, explosive, delicious sex, no matter who you have it with or how many times. Every sexual encounter will be epic. The downside to this is that you will never have love. No one will love you, and you will not love them. It won’t be unpleasant. No hate. Just no love.
No hedging. No tricks. No loopholes. Choose this prompt and you choose one or the other. Could you?
Now there's a question I never wanted to hear. Really, come on. Two of the loves of my life, and you're asking me which one I'd choose? Not an easy choice, I'll say.
Love's one of those finicky things. You do one thing wrong, and it's pretty much gone. And sometimes, you have to work
damn hard to get it. To be honest, real infatuation? It's one of the biggest pains in the ass. No joke. Infatuation always leads to making a stupid decision, at the earliest, five minutes down the line.
You have no idea how hard
that habit was to break.
But, I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the feeling love brings. When it's there, it's like nothing in the world can compare. So what if the sex isn't much more than mediocre? You just have to look into the other person's eyes and you
know. It's pretty hard to describe, especially after being stuck in the 21st century as long as I have.
I never really did get the point in monogamy.
But nothing hurts worse when that's gone...
I've had my fair share of sexual encounters. You could say my bedpost doesn't even exist anymore, and plenty of others have notch in them, just for me. And I've had some pretty mind blowing sexual encounters. Talk about your breath catching in your throat, huh? Good sex is good, but great sex is off the wall amazing.
It'd be really easy to just say, "Give me the sex!" But, I've grown up since the Blitz. Living a couple hundred years will do that to you.
Oh man, but mediocre sex...
No, no, I'm not taking my answer back. I'd take the love over the sex. But maybe that's because it's been a few days since Ianto broke out the stopwatch.