(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonist.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a girl who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you that, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives other standard codes; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan generally does like its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself, and have it come out intact; and Keltham, particularly, likes those.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonist.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you that, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives other standard codes; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan generally does like its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself, and have it come out intact; and Keltham, particularly, likes those.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonist.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you that, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives other standard codes; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact; and Keltham, in particular, likes those too.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you that, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives other standard codes; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact; and Keltham, in particular, likes those too.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you that, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives other standard codes; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact; and Keltham, in particular, likes those too.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.  Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact; and Keltham, in particular, likes those too.  A lot of work went into designing the system that trained Keltham to try this particular Trick.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Keltham, in particular, likes those too.  A lot of work went into designing the system that trained Keltham to try this particular Trick.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most other young women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Keltham, in particular, likes those too.  And what dath ilan likes, Civilization spends money on!  A lot of work went into designing the system that trained Keltham to try this particular Trick.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Keltham, in particular, likes those too.  And what dath ilan likes, Civilization spends money on!  A lot of work went into designing the system that trained Keltham to try this particular Trick.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do an Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Difficult-Seeming Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Or "fingersnaps", as they're now sometimes known, in a meme spread by the popcorn book series Science Maniac Verrez.  Keltham, in particular, likes Difficult-Seeming Tricks.

And what dath ilan likes, Civilization spends money on!  A lot of work went into designing the system that trained Keltham to attempt this particular sexual fingersnap.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do a Difficult-Seeming Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Or "fingersnaps", as they're now sometimes known more briefly, in a meme spread by the popcorn book series Science Maniac Verrez.  Keltham, in particular, likes Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks.

And what dath ilan likes, Civilization spends big money on!  A lot of work went into designing the anatomical arcade system that trained Keltham to attempt this particular sexual fingersnap.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do a Difficult-Seeming Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Or "fingersnaps", as they're now sometimes known more briefly, in a meme spread by the popcorn book series Science Maniac Verrez.  Keltham, in particular, likes Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks.

And what lots of people enjoy, Civilization spends big money on!  A lot of work went into designing the anatomical arcade system that trained Keltham to attempt this particular sexual fingersnap.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do a Difficult-Seeming Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Or "fingersnaps", as they're now sometimes known more briefly, in a meme spread by the popcorn book series Science Maniac Verrez.  Keltham, in particular, likes Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks.

And what lots of people spend lots of minutes doing, Civilization spends big money on!  A lot of work went into designing the anatomical arcade system that trained Keltham to attempt this particular sexual fingersnap.)

(Keltham has competing life priorities, and would not call himself particularly hedonistic.  He is, however, very competitive, and sex does matter to his self-told life story at all.  The amount of pleasure he has to give in trade feels to Keltham like a key figure of merit for his own sexual self-worth; and for this reason he has invested more skill points than most other young men his age.  Maybe most women his age are not, in fact, evaluating him as if he were a sexual product in a marketplace; but Keltham feels on some level that they should be, they should be evaluating what he has to trade, and he doesn't like the thought of being unready if he meets a woman who is evaluating him.  The sexual standards he wants to live up to, first and foremost, are his own; and that never felt to him like a place where he was naturally very self-forgiving.

So Keltham has ever spent a dozen hours practicing with a very carefully built anatomical doll, hooked up to a room full of the best computers that are known publicly to exist, learning how to play standard-variation-over female anatomy as if it were a video game, and learning how to read standard-variation-over female sexual responses, especially the ones that don't require voluntary action.

Because among the defects of sex in a state of nature is, for example, that orgasms don't last nearly long enough in comparison to the rest of sex; and if you're trying to optimize the integral of pleasure over time - not that this is the figure of merit, for sex, but it's a figure of merit - then it's a bonus sexual skill to be able to read how close your member-of-desired-sex is to orgasm, and hang out in the region where she's close but not quite there.  To be sure, there's the very obvious version of this where she just tells you where she is, or gasps out figures between zero and twelve, or gives standard nonverbal signals; but if she doesn't have to focus on doing that, because you can just tell, then you are able to do a Difficult-Seeming Impressive Trick and she can have more fun without being distracted.

Dath ilan does enjoy its Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks, like being able to tear a jacket-shirt off of yourself and have it come out intact.  Or "fingersnaps", as they're now sometimes known more briefly, in a meme spread by the popcorn book series Science Maniac Verrez.  Keltham, in particular, likes Difficult-Seeming Impressive Tricks.  And what lots of people spend lots of minutes doing, Civilization spends big money on!  A lot of work went into designing the anatomical arcade system that trained Keltham to attempt this particular sexual fingersnap.)