Comment:

I've always had a soft spot for cheerful, enthusiastic, energetically sexual characters. Call me crazy, but I'm a big fan of fictional characters who live large, who enjoy themselves, who want others to do likewise - and if that happens to involve a sexual dimension, hey, that's a heck of a bonus. (Ideally, these characters play well off of other characters who are not thus, because that's how stories work, but who are amused and aroused and consenting, because that's how stories that are nice work.)

Zoa's not quite the same as those other characters, though. There's somewhat of a different vibe when one says "hey, I like you, I like blowjobs, sucking your dick would be great, hooray, let's do the thing (oh, and by the way, I'm not doing it unless you transfer me thirty credits first)".

But, of course, whether we acknowledge it or not, there's always something implicitly transactional in any sexual interaction, isn't there? Even if there were such a thing as a perfectly equitable interaction with absolutely no power dynamic or emotional codependence, there is usually at least an "I'll do this for you if you also do this for me" aspect. I mean, in theory, Zoa could just say "hey, this is a normal oral sex scenario, I'll go down on you if you go down on me. Oops, I totally forgot I don't have genitals, oh well, I guess giving me thirty credits is kinda like licking the alphabet on a clitoris, right?"

I guess that's why I've never had any real problem with sex work (other than, of course, trafficking and exploitation and whatnot). I mean, if you've ever endorsed the idea of sexual reciprocation, what you're really pushing, in a sense, is prostitution that happens to use the barter system.