These are words of wisdom and trufax. Look at QaF...same damn dynamic. [ETA: I wonder if there isn't some generational/gender-specific stuff going on here too, at least with RTD's queer relationships. Russell comes from a generation (mine) that reached sexual maturity in the 70s: a time when casual sex was ballyhooed as the be-all-end-all of pleasure, and a time when gay men were first attempting to be out and couple-y at the same time. So there was this tug-of-war between the sexxin' and the couplin'. It seems to me that modern generations of queer folk have resolved that issue, to some extent. But Russell is still stuck in the old dilemma. So when he writes a queer relationship, it expresses that tension.] His m/f relationships are desexualized, so this particular little issue doesn't come up.

Or maybe I'm just talking out my ass. I dunno.

Russell? Get some therapy, get over it, and give us a new story, eh?