What the actual fuck its exactly like jinx and codename anastasia this is just gross outsi...

i mean... have you seen pearl boy???

Yeah but I thought the author was just a weirdo like Anne Rice just adding shocking shit without romanticizing it just for the shock value until it just kept getting worse and worse and I only gaf about Jooha and Dooshik's relationship but then she had Dooshik rape Jooha and shit

that's why this shouldn't surprise you tbh

People will still be surprised, and that’s perfectly normal. Not everyone will desensitize.

How was it even romanctized ?

It's a story about a mobster and a former whore, what did you expect?

Where did I say it was romanticized?

Not glorified detailed rape? Is it really that hard or do you weirdos love rape so much?

Yes but this is probably going to be much worse and im surprised its the main couple being full on rapists

Yes, cuz in a world of crime, murder, drugs and violence there would be no rape and it's problem Idk, I would understand this shock in a normal story, but here it is clear from the beginning that they are both crazy shitheads And I personally hate that rape is almost in every story (ehm, ehm Jinx), but this is literally story where do you have ex-whore, you're just an idiot if you expect there won't be rape here

Ive seen stories about crime and prostitution without glorifying rape so why the fuck are you defending this shit

And the writing for this is dogshit the only reason people read it is because its a pearl boy spin off and the art is good nobody came here for more rape

And where tf am I defending it? What I'm saying is that you are upset about something that was crystal clear that would be in this story, plus even though I haven't read Pearl Boy (maybe like 20 chapters), I know there was a lot of violence and sexual violence in it. So idk what you expect the author to do other than do the same thing in a different guise

And idk why youre excusing glorified rape just because this shit is about crime and prostitution

Both of you have valid reasons, let’s chime down.
Twinkie is right that rape shouldn’t be glorified or romanticized at all. Even if BLs have mafia tag or gang whatever, rape/SA is an excessively used trope when it comes to bottoms. Stories can be dark without rape towards bottoms.

Edward is right that it’s best to avoid a story if it triggers an individual, there’s not much to do at moment. Draw a line between reality and fiction, get some break maybe if it stresses you. Unfortunately many BL tends to have SA, so find Shounen Ai or novels/danmeis (I can recommend based on preferences).

Also I don’t like calling Yuta a former whore, I see him as a victim. He never chose to be a ‘whore’, he was absolutely forced—start of his villain arc. Anyways, not black or white, both main characters suck.

The only problem I have is the glorified rape ive read so many stories where the rape is more of awareness instead of it being romanticized or glorified

I basically agree with your comment, just- are we really going to talk about whether it's right or wrong to call a fictional character an ex-whore:dd That's what he did - whether willingly or not, it's just naming it, so yeah

I'm asking for the last time: where am I defending or even justifying this? I just wrote that if it has all the signs that there will be rape, then why are you surprised that there will be rape. If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, it behaves like a duck, then it will probably be a duck. At the same time, I haven't seen any glorification of rape yet, as you write here - just that we don't misunderstand eachother; considering that Korean women (authors) are quite obsessed with this "topic", it quite possibly will be here, but not yet, so

Again, just my opinion. It’s just a preference of saying. Readers feel with the story, and stories are meant to make you feel.

I personally wouldn’t because he didn’t want to be a whore, he did not have a choice. When I think of someone saying, ex whore, I think of someone who used to sleep around which is black and white.

It’s the framing, again with the ‘it’s what he did’. It erases the fact of coercion imo.

I see what you’re trying to say though, it’s fiction so it shouldn’t matter—but then, it also shouldn’t matter if someone does say it matters.

Yeah, stories can be dark with implications of rape or none at all.