#but it'll cost that three-dollar loonie

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IDK why you would leave all this in the notes, @petralemaitre... #due south #benton fraser #meta #i am fascinated by op's brain #i am so used to the universes where fraser is rampantly bi #that an analysis of his love life that takes into account neither ray is truly bizarre to me #i swing both rays #i love the awful doomed limerence of the victoria arc #i am happy to read fraser as demisexual #cis plus in the modern parlance #and just plain queer as a three-dollar loonie

i like the fact that benton fraser is patently disturbed by sexy stuff aimed in his direction, but doesn't mind if it's just about professional work or not about him. stitching on a leather corset? worth admiring (and useful for the case). strippers? just doing their jobs in his vicinity, carry on. i think even with the bdsm club, while i don't think he initially knew where he was, he clearly was chill about the get-ups on the whole, even after he gained an awareness (still unsure if police-mountie was dick out at the event which caused one moment of fraser-distress, i choose to believe)

also the things he deems as sexual or non-sexual. crossdressing is a respectable pastime, and not inherently a sexual thing (the fact that the focus of that episode is an only-girls school as well... oh the woke left are at it agai- this was 1995 you say?) bdsm/kink, not inherently sexual, unless someone is directly/indirectly propositioning him for sex

there's a certain set of criteria that affect him specifically that make him anxious/uncomfortable, which, just shockingly accurate asexual writing actually, it really makes it seem more like it's about him than about a prudish outdated sensibility/ideology about what "socially correct behaviours" are meant to be (although he does have those too but in a mostly charming way... when ray opens the car door for ms fraser..... wonderful genderplay, 10/10 points) (also very noticeable because ray can be quite judgemental about these things, bdsm/kink/stripping/crossdressing are things he's spoken disparagingly/ignorantly about and been corrected on by fraser's much more enlightened understanding)

(i'm also curious about how i'd read this with him as a very subby guy who is drawn canonically to two very dommy women, the first of whom definitely does have sex with him. i mean, he's giving that "asexual will have sex in the context of submission" vibe, but also analysis/headcanon of how he'd feel about that, considering all the other reactions to sexual Stuff in general)