Sorry, but Sangwoo's mommy issues are the very least of his problems.
Nothing he screams during sex can trump him stabbing and smashing his way through the unfortunate souls who wander across his psychopath.
Sorry, but I can't see anyone wanting to be with Araki until he grows up and calms the hell down.
He's one of those people who tries too hard and obsesses over other people because his own identity never fully developed.
He should not date anyone until he learns to be comfortable with himself.
We haven't really met her, but I already hate the wife/daughter.
She ditches her husband to go do what she wants in another country, and
then periodically calls to tell him what to do, eventually rewarding him for his love, devotion, and trust by calling to tell him she's ditching him for someone else.
In real life she'd be what I call a SELFISH BITCH.
At least now you can see Sangwoo had craziness bestowed upon him by his mother; he wasn't just some bad seed.
I also see a much bigger connection between Bum and Sangwoo after this chapter.
They seem different on the surface, but down deep they are both exceptionally damaged.
That is too funny!
Especially since his attitude and size totally match a chihuahua's.
Seems like an undershirt would be a better option than band-aids...
just sayin'
Not sure if it's a cultural thing, but how is it none of them even once thought of just taking turns?
How narrow-minded and stubborn can you get?!?!
Well, it's kinda these younglings first gay experience after all. So they still somewhat attach top position with masculinity and bottom one with being cute. I think author deliberately make their characters like that so that they could develop to learn that making love is about feeling good together, doesn't matter top/bottom. I don't think it's a cultural thing.
It actually is a whole cultural thing that's the whole strife with the majority of the genre because it relies on character's to have certain personalities for the most part to align the sexual position they practice due to stereotypes. Given that the genre is written for an intended female audience most find the notion of cute uke and masculine seme to be relatable visually but also inherently more acceptable. When we have instances of the opposite of the masculine uke and cute some it's seen as novel because of this usually expectation of roles and personality traits. Actual gay men know a sexual position does not dictate whether your partner is cute or not nor their physical outwardness, but because we for the most part are conditioned as a society to adhere to heteronormative expectations even within queer(lgbtaq-etc) relationships, challenges to the status quo always come as something grand when they're otherwise mundane. This is even more so in Asian cultures where the average person doesn't actually know a queer person just what they've seen on or read in the media, as queerness is still not wholly acceptable and openly shared.
it could also be cause these things are always written by a straight female and having a fantasized vision on gay men
Read American M&M (gay male) romance, most of which is written by women, they include lots of stories in which the men switch roles.
I think it's got to be cultural because Americans do have names for roles in gay relationships, but they also have terms to describe switching roles (i.e. flip fuck, reversible, versatile).
Hmmmm.... yes, I totally agree about that. It's the problem with the trends in yaoi literature. Yaoi is made by women for women, thus, it is not surprising that it has that type of stereotypes. That's why Japan has bara as well.
But if I think about it more, Japan since the old time has this preference for cute/young people. In Japan, if we want to compliment someone beautiful we commonly don't use the word 'kirei' but 'kawaii'. In the homosexuality history of Japan, they have something called nanshoku and shudo, where the monk and samurai have sexual relationships with prepubescent boy (of course the boys are the uke). The relationship is said to build trust between the mentor and the mentee. They take the younger boy as a lover usually until they come of age. The most famous example is Oda Nobunaga and Mori Ranmaru. Japan also had male prostitutes, also young boys, but they are often dressed as a woman.
With how they like the cute type, which is often linked to young girls and young boys (or young looking ones), it gives birth to another genre and fetish like shotacon and lolicon. If we read isekai manga nowadays, almost every manga has loli character. I was also pretty surprised when I know they have very young pop idols (11-14 years old) and allow them to take gravure pictures and wear sexy clothes and bikinis. And many Japanese people see nothing wrong with it.
Thus, I think it is no surprise that the stereotype with top/bottom position in gay relationship is strong like that. That's why many of them prefer that the uke is the cuter one or the younger one. When the uke is older, it becomes another fetish.