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I don’t know if it’s because I’m an adult…but If I know beforehand that a story is a noncon - or that a story is very dark “romance” - I don’t mind the troublesome elements. Like I can read it and realize it’s fucked up and enjoy it as a fucked up story. Kind of like when I read horror. I absolutely don’t want to be kidnapped and killed but I can enjoy reading that horror story understanding that’s what it is.
It’s when a story gets portrayed as “normal” that I then get the ick factor. I think this story made the rape very clearly a rape. The male lead wasn’t getting raped and having those “I hate it but I love it” thoughts that a lot of Yaoi will do. I also feel like the male interest was set up as a kind of sociopath with deep perversions. Or some kind of psychopath…