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the amount of people here acting like pure hypocrites is astonishing and ruined my good time of reading a wholesome chapter. You guys liked the beginning of the story obviously and stuck around about a "normal" salaryman who falls for a "seductive" sex positive and unashamed porn actor yet you cannot stand the fact that it's not following some stupid heteronormative formula where he needs to be "fixed" by leaving that same lifestyle that made him as a character appealing to you in the beginning. I don't get it. Isn't his lack of shame and that he's actually proud of his work and takes it seriously part of his characterization? Suddenly he needs to quit what made him an interesting character for him to be a "good" partner? Then why would the story be about a porn actor in the first place? What kind of loving partner would Natori be if he only dated him expecting he would be "fixed" or "changed" in his beliefs for them to be together?
This is the problem with romance stories nowadays, it's been centuries and audiences still expect to follow the stale formula of "woman surrogate character meets man with flaws -> woman surrogate character fixes man's flaws through the power of luv -> marriage and children and heteronormative domestic idea of happiness" It's boring and basically an illusion.
This isn't even a hetero romance yet our heteronormative illusions of what happiness is in life and relationships are still stifling people. Porn actors are real people with real lives and concerns who do not think of acting in porn as being intimate with a partner they care about (because it isn't the same), and you do not get to read a story (illegally) where the job is romanticized only to then wish it could get fixed away because your own ideas of happiness, monogamy and relationships clash with it. You are reading softcore porn illegally on a website. Clearly porn is a huge part of your lives. Stop being hypocrites and acting like the sex industry is beneath you when you are directly engaging with it.
I can't believe I was in such a fluffy and happy mood reading this chapter only to find The Pilgrim Brigade TM in the comments acting like we live in the 1900s. Ugh