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True. Like if they face a trauma, let them go for therapy. Not inflicting the same trauma on other people. I hate when they say I have raped you and done bad things to you but you are still like this. They start getting emotional and acting like the victim instead of actually repenting and apologising.
Honestly this is why I get so pissed off with this genre. You cannot have it both ways of rape is sexy but also must be taken seriously when it’s convenient to “add to the plot”. At least Hentai has firmly established its identity of ignoring realism. Here the author goes with this sob story to excuse Yuki’s behavior of raping and abusing others. When the importance of his abuse is parallel to the abuse he’s inflicted. Yuki experienced a crime but he’s also not a good person as well.
Now this suggests that Yuki experienced this crime and the only alternative was for him to rape others as necessary. But Yuki shouldn’t be judged or hated for his actions. This flow of logic and all the other “sympathetic” backstories either gloss over or conflate abuse is what truly grosses me out about BL in particular. It’s reliance on rape culture by either romanticizing or making it a plot device for almost every plot it produces but never adds to the plot or provides the dominance kink most in reality are looking for. Instead never actually unpacking the damage and trauma of the experience. It’s shallow and insulting. If the author wanted to make this a senseless rape comedic plot commit to that. Not this. It’s infuriating.