good consent rules!

I’m not promoting selfishness here.  Knowing what you want doesn’t mean always doing what you want; if you want polyamory and your partner is monogamous, or if you want to tie up your partner and they’re terrified of that, then your job is not done here.  You still have to negotiate and compromise and possibly sacrifice some of your desires. But you can’t even start that process until you know exactly what you’re negotiating about, and that requires you to know exactly what your own raw, impractical, selfish desires are.