Just to add more information: increasingly violent and sadistic sex is also becoming more prevalent in real life especially in heterosexual relationships with woman bearing the brunt of this. This is due to the influence of pornography, with more pornography nowadays involving the humiliation and subjugation of the female.
If we consider the assertion that the uke is often a proxy for the female partner in mangas and manhwas (which has proven to be the case for a number of years now) then the prevalence makes sense when compared to real life.
Just to add - in real life gay relationships, there is an increasing fetishisation for being more submissive in the part of the bottom, but I’ve found that it’s more “pretend”, and the need to be dominated is most often coming from the bottom.
Contrast this with heterosexual relations where the need to be dominant is more often coming from the make partner with the female just acquiescing. (Of course this is not always the case). And there’s also the disparity in physical strength between males and females.
There are even cases of women (unintentionally on the part of the man) dying during sex due to choking i.e. the male partner having an asphyxiation fetish, but lacking the experience to know the limits.
Anyways, sorry for the essay. I just needed to put into words what I’ve been feeling but haven’t full expressed until now.
One thing I’ve been seeing a lot recently and what I HATE more than anything is the uke’s anus tearing.
I’d prefer any other form of violence rather than this.
There’s a lot of sexual violence in manhwas now. But I find this particularly egregious because of the very specific visual representation of the uke’s pain.
Manhwa’s have been getting MUCH more violent these past few years, particularly with sexual violence of increasing intensity. I’m not sure what’s driving this but it makes me really uncomfortable.
Yes, I know the rape argument is getting old, and I do understand the potential value of fictional rape as a firm of catharsis/ a potential outlet for dealing with trauma etc. I also get the negative ramifications of the fetishisation of rape. But I’m specifically referring to the increasingly violent nature of the rapes in manhwa. Of course, this is mirrored by the increasingly intense and painful sex even if the sex is consensual.
So that begs the question: is all sex in manhwa now gravitating towards a version of BDSM?
Other than that, this story is really intriguing. I just hope it doesn’t end up with them falling for each other like every single rapey manhwa, but it’ll probably end up this way.