Responses
the first thing that came to my mind when i saw jin kang immediately get sexual with yiyeon after the SA was it looked like a response or a sort of coping mechanism to the incident :((
still doesn't excuse it being used as the authors way of having jin kang open up about his insecurities bcus literally anything else could've sufficed why such an extreme (?) route
youve summed my thoughts up perfectly like im glad someone else saw it in this light
so i know everyone is upset that the assault wasn’t addressed properly here (i am too) but let’s not forget being hyper sexual after SA is a perfectly okay coping mechanism for some victims. with all of his anxieties building up, to being assaulted and then finally having yiyeon ease his worries and insecurities, it was like a fuse that had ran its course and was going to explode.
we can look at it that way, or it could just be another case of bl authors and their fetish for SA - but it wasn’t between main characters, so i doubt it in this instance - and as far as i remember, i don’t think yiyeon’s ever forced himself onto jin kang so based off of the main story, i don’t think (or at least i’d hope so) that the author was trying to be weird
i must say, the SA is something very real, though. if i’m gonna look at it from a ‘this is real life’ perspective, don’t asian people, especially korean people - mostly woman, get sexually assaulted in western countries because of their distinct asian/korean appearance because it’s a fetish - i know its not exactly unrelated but i just wanted to point it out
also, i don’t like that this assault was thrown in as a plot device for jin kang to reveal his insecurities to yiyeon. they could’ve just argued over dinner and then gone back to the hotel and talked it out