She said she was recruited at 16 and had never had a boyfriend so any sex she had was part of her training. Gregory was the first purely recreational sex she had.

It's worth remembering that Elizabeth never had a sex life in the USSR so might not have much idea at all about cultural expectations that way.

Oh, I assume she'll be important too. I just think filling that female-sized hole is the important role. She would give Stan someone to talk to, she's someone who might not brush off his concerns, she might look at the Jennings in a different way as his girlfriend, would complicate things with Matthew. It seems…

Pastor Tim also ruined it by betraying her secret to his wife. (Also she may just find that it's not answering all her questions as he promised it would.)

But we're not talking about just safe sex/condoms, we're talking about two sex workers who don't want to get anyone pregnant or get pregnant themselves. Why would they be unaware of birth control just because it wasn't so widely available back in the USSR? If Paige is going to have sex it would make far more sense…

I don't think it's all that damaging to teach somebody to think before they get carried away emotionally and say something that could destroy their life. If you've got reason to be careful, you have to do that.

I just meant that she could be a regular woman who was interested in him without having another agenda. It could still end really badly, of course. Plus, those relationships mostly ended because Stan ended them so it's not like he got dumped.

But that doesn't mean she has anything to do with spying. Stan having someone in his life outside of the job could be just as dangerous or more dangerous than her being part of some spy plot fighting over Stan. The last girlfriend he had was a recognizable actress and was just an EST enthusiast and she nearly got Stan…

There's no way Elizabeth and Philip haven't been using birth control for the past 20 years in the US. Even if we hadn't seen Philip using a condom with Martha I think that would be a given. They know it's much more convenient than abortions.

Remember how well they handled the time she walked in on them 69-ing? They didn't freak out and the next day they just told her you don't walk into peoples' bedrooms when the door's shut.

Hmm. That suddenly makes me think of Tuan's disgust at Pasha being "weak" followed by Elizabeth saying she's sick of treating Paige like a goddamn child.

What good would warning him do?

His hair is especially weird for the 80s.

Both Paige's parents' attitude about sex is that it's her decision if she wants to have it. That doesn't sound so bad to me. I'm sure if Paige wanted to come to her with questions about it she would, but I'm sure plenty of normal western mothers have told their daughters they don't care if they have sex. However it is…

Stan hasn't had luck with women? He's had amazing luck with women. He started out with beautiful Sandra who did all she could to save their marriage, but instead he had an affair with gorgeous Nina, which was sexual harassment on his part give the context, and then she got killed when he didn't betray his country for…

Henry clocked a guy who gave his sister beer and had a knife with a beer bottle when he was 9. And he didn't sleep in no closet over it!

I love Henry—I think they've done good work with him despite not using him in any major storylines. That's why people actually want more of him and can tell that in some ways he'd be a better spy than Paige. He does have a personality, and a quirky interesting one at that, he's just not giving his parents trouble so…

True, but they've never made anything clear when it came to Irina or her son.

I wonder if that's going to make Paige figure out they have sex for their job. I mean, they kind of told her they have sex for their job, didn't they?

I remember the line, but in context that didn't mean his mother lied and told him his father was living under his real identity and just an immigrant. The line was in context of telling his grandfather how he'd ever find him, and since that's his cover, that's all he knows that would help.