The Comfy Chair

*g* I, too, leaned toward the promiscuous side of the force, pre-marriage, and so can enjoy PWPs and polyamory (in stories, heh) with abandon. Part of the reason I see more need for bond than curiousity or experimentation can explain is the very strangeness of their situation--they're not two potentially gay guys who suddenly discover the other is gay, too--there are lots of those stories out there--but two straight guys who get zapped into female bodies. Argh! Freaky and upsetting situation! Not conducive to easy, casual sex for the average straight guy, I'd think. The associated freak-out would be deep and wide enough to motivate them to be more secretive, rather than more sharing, unless they are with someone with whom they feel a great deal of trust and share an emotional bond. The very weirdness of the situation, for them, dictates the need for more of a bond, for me. I don't think you and I are very good guages, in that respect, being more open to experience to begin with than we appear to be supposed to believe these guys to be--they identify as straight, not bi. Were it you and I, there might be very little problem. ;) For these two, who they are and what's happened to them dictate the presence of the bond, the need for it for them to even be able to consider sex.