I think your second-paragraph description of the sex and your later summary of the "vibes" of the story are excellent, and both of them expand what I said, or thought I said, or intended to say.:-) I am also somewhat in sympathy with those who find edgy, unpleasant aspects of the M/S relationship confusing and off-putting. For me it's the strange mixture of desire and contempt that simmers inside Scully, the sense of hopelessness that she will ever make fruitful contact with a man of so many tics and vulnerabilities. She doesn't want to be saddled with an immature and needy manchild, and she seems to fear that. I'm not sure how much of this attitude is obvious in EQS, but it does come through in OMAN's work as a whole. And I don't like it, which is not to say it's not an arresting and defensible character concept.

Yet it seems as though Scully actually did need a good, hard fuck to resolve all. Of course, there were chakras involved. Tantric coitus triumphs. (BTW, there's a fic called Tantric; I advise against it.)

I'm beginning to sound sarcastic. Forgive me. I really, really like El Quinto Sol.

There's a short piece by OMAN--some sort of mythological title and I should look it up--on the subject of Scully requesting Mulder's seman. The vibe there is very bitter.