Exactly! Why does everyone think Ares is a masochist? He's the god of war - if anything he should have been a psychopathic sadist. Just because he didn't want to kill the person he was fucking didn't mean he was a masochist or anything.
"I care about you as well, and I care about our friendship." He wouldn't be here otherwise. And she wouldn't have spoken to him and agreed to meet him face to face.
"But you know I wouldn't mind."
Sex wasn't life and death. If it would help her, he would do it.
"Unless you're going to bust out the nipple clamps, floggers and cockrings, of course," he teased. That would be a little 'WHOA, HOLD ON, I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS'.