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  1. Passerby (Guest) on Chapter 1 Mon 02 Sep 2019 04:31PM UTC

    I have to agree with a few of the other commenters here, this whole premise is really disrespectful and makes me feel really uncomfortable to read.
    The whole narrative of “labels don’t matter, everyone’s pan, boundaries don’t matter” makes me feel so sick inside because if someone, a close friend of mine no less, who I wasn’t attracted to came up to me and said those things I sure as hell wouldn’t be on board to fuck, it’s also rooted in basic homophobic principles. Sexuality IS a spectrum in a broad sense, each person falls somewhere on it, not in a way where everyone has it inside of them to be anything and can just change. Everyone has certain boundaries that need to be respected.

    I’m sure this was just to make an orgy work but it was done very poorly and tastelessly. You said that you didn’t want to be that one person who made them all gay because that wasn’t realistic. Well good job I guess. This IS realistic. Realistically homophobic.

    Atleast when they are all gay, while it might not be “realistic”, it doesn’t read as predatory, manipulative, and homophobic.

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    1. Myathewolfeh on Chapter 1 Tue 17 Sep 2019 12:21AM UTC

      I'm sorry about that. I never meant it that way and I define the theory more as the story goes on. Someone *does* go through a sexuality crisis that ends in them deciding that it's the individual who they love that matters. I did make sure to include that they *do* have boundaries. Next chapter they do talk about what stuff they are comfortable doing and what they are not. I made sure to emphasize that Jimin would not necessarily have sex with Tae, even though they are both men who are attracted to men, since Jimin doesn't yet feel any sexual/romantic chemistry between them.

      The point I suppose I was trying to get across was the fact that society is way too consumed with defining others, especially when it comes to sexuality, and that individuals should be the only ones to have a say in how they identify. That's what really matters. I guess it was just my bisexuality coming out in that. I'm SO over people getting so worked up about what others do with their sex lives and how they define themselves, especially when they ridicule others for the choices they make. That was just my frustration coming out in this in a way that may have been misinterpreted.

      Last Edited Tue 17 Sep 2019 12:22AM UTC

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