Damn it. There was the request, made as directly as any offer Schuldig himself had ever made and demanding a final decision on his part. His aesthetic sense was considerably turned off by ZEX's mental images of how he was supposed to look, regardless of what he actually looked like at the moment...but his ego and libido, by contrast, were thoroughly interested, and the war they were waging on his better sense was a heated one with no clear victor.

It had been so much easier to declare to himself that ZEX was off-limits back when ZEX wasn't actually offering himself as an option. Temptation was a lot easier to resist when it wasn't there, and Schuldig had never had a good track record for holding out against it. Not to mention the interesting prospect of being in a position to mess with the captain indirectly...no man who complicated something as simple and enjoyable as sex that much deserved to have any, anyway.

"How much do you actually know about how humans mate, anyway?" he asked, if only to buy himself some time. "Particularly two men?"