I don't see either them as being the 'recreational sex type' either.
I just wanted to say that I bought the sex-buddy concept without reservations. I can’t really see Lois as Clark as "no sex before marriage kind of people" as they were portrayed in the latter part of the series, to me, it cheapens their passion.
In my world what really stops them from casual sex (and dating in general)are that they are both control freaks. Lois is afraid of getting hurt. Clark is afraid of hurting others.
In the first season we see that Clark is ready to have casual sex if sufficiently motivated (Pheromone), clearly he would want something more but he could settle for less with the right woman. Lois, despite her tough act, is burned in the relationship area and tries to get her amorous feelings under control by separating love and sex. That is how I interpret her teasing and the way she uses her sex appeal to get stories. And it’s apparent to me it’s a sore spot for her to be percieved as the working girl without a love life by Cat and her sister. I could easily see her having a fling just to prove them wrong.
But I couldn’t see Lois having casual sex with someone she didn’t think she could control. But Clark is that guy she has confided in repeatedly and he has kept those confidences, in FB most especially the sex before the end of days thing. She has takes advantage of him in many different ways without him blowing a gasket.
To Lois, if anyone should be safe to experiment with it is Clark. And really, she is offering Clark free no holds barred sex, every guys supposed dream. Plus if you have had sex with someone it gets enormously less embarrassing to ask for more.
This idea is not new in the fandom either, see Meredith’s “honeymoon feeling” or Wendys “happy new tears”. Clark is discrete, a nice guy, uncommitted and wrapped around her finger, if Lois was low on confidence and high on libido I have no trouble seeing her go for it. Here Clark rebuffs her not because of some higher morality, but because he is afraid it would destroy their relationship. It feels like a fairly accurate reading to of Lois if she thought Clark wanted her just for sex and that she had difficulty controlling her feelings for him that she would try to distance herself.
A very strong narrative which lost none of its power in the conversion to pgfic. Well done.
Tank (who doesn't read nfic because he gets no thrill out of reading, or watching someone else having sex)
Hmm, if you don't read Nfic, how do you know it didn't lose anything in the conversion ?
