No sex. There's a kneejerk impulse to put that to the test and immediately try his luck. It's not out of any desire to push past Bash's boundaries, so much as, well, what else has Jeff got to offer? Sex is pretty much his main-- only?-- asset here. It's his worth, his currency, his weapon--

--all things he doesn't need to worry about with Bash. That's right. This is a safe bubble, an oasis-- or, rather, it can be an oasis, if he'll just allow it.

"Yeah. Yeah, okay. Kissing, talking, and, uh... What was the other one again? Cuddling. Right." He nods. Yeah, he can stick to that.

"Can you... tell me about him? Alec, I mean."