Be that as it may, since we are friends I had heard there's some sort of caveat about being able to speak on nearly anything. If that's to be believed.

[Not that Loki is an expert in the whole having friends business. But he's giving it a shot in his own way.

He shrugs.]

Macho twaddle. I never had much care for that. Particularly the complete illogic of the position that men are supposed to rid themselves of it instantly while women are not.

[Asgard wasn't quite so bad as the mortals about that, a thing that never ceases to surprise him.]

I fail to see how romance has anything at all to do with sex.

[He sips his coffee, which he'd almost forgotten.]

But I've yet to be convinced that romance as a thing actually exists, either.