This is such a gross and flippant way of presenting an oppressive system, and brushing it off like it’s evidence of the love interest’s insatiable pull towards the FMC.
He literally says that his impulses are so intense that he has to pay more and struggle more to find SW who will agree to his demands (presumably he’s either into some weird shit kink-wise or his fantasies are literally violent?).
His lust for the princess is obviously repressed since he can’t act on his feelings, so he describes having to solicit sex workers to carry out his desires. While that’s annoying from a craft perspective, what I really took issue with was the very subtle acts of violence he commits against women. For readers of the Zodiac Academy series by the same authors, he is essentially a copy of Lance Orion. Our uptight guard character, Cassius, has no substance to him beyond blind loyalty to the empire and an unsubstantiated infatuation with the princess. I was shocked and appalled to read some of the male characters’ perspectives, particularly their views on women.
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