Fan community for FX's The Americans

Yes, it's a great sign of how much trust she has in this relationship and a huge step personally for her that she's even considering she might want to go there. It's rewarding to watch her have these personal revelations over the past few episodes about how she's really been all these years and to see her making efforts to change. I could even see it in Elizabeth's head not so much that she wants to be completely dominated during sex, as in not in control at all, but just that she would be giving him her trust and showing him she really wants him to let go and be free to be more aggressive with her. It could very well be a mutual "animal-like" thing too where they both get to explore things getting a little wilder and it's a signal to Philip that they're getting to a more comfortable place both with each other and her trust-wise in a sexual relationship where she feels like she can play around with it a little more and find out what she really does *like* in bed without that being the loaded topic it's always been. Or not as loaded, at least. I just saw it all as a great sign, and a really healthy step for her, and potentially for both of them if it can stop being attached to "Clark" but rather what Elizabeth and Philip want to try in bed.