[ oh of course he knows these things, but is he really going to acknowledge them... is he really going to put in more than the base effort? this isn't your traditional place to court, date, and then bang. no. it's bang or don't bang. ]

Convince? [ snorts! ] It feels more like it's compulsory. And when the indulgin' is normalized, what does it become?

[ it means things escalate. the old extreme becomes ordinary. etc. ]

I'm just thinkin' we might be in a lil' bit of a trouble.