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It is 2025, and we're still only having straight-up criminals do "BDSM". I hate to say it since yaoi is love, yaoi is life. But (korean) Yaoi really needs to catch up with the straights in Japanese literature (and prob lesbians/bi too) when it comes to serious BDSM with storytelling and deep dives on the psyche. Bro, I would even LOVE to see an asexual gay man blasting off into BDSM to satisfy him and his partners' different needs. But this is giving "fan fiction", "I've only heard about it", "love the aesthetic" kinda vibe. We are so much better than this. The uke is literally just a victim getting tormented by a sadistic no-good thug. We know full well if he were beating a woman's ass like that, we would be up in arms. And don't pull up looking a fool saying, "well, I don't mind if this huge man beats on a woman, it's sexy." It is not unique. It's just violence, and it's getting old. I'm not here to smut shame, but the MC and ML feel so well modeled after real life and abusive dynamics, I wish the author could have pushed real boundaries past troupes