The problem is Marlon’s response to Six, not the child trafficking. He offers to hook a 12 year old child up for sex with a third party, allows himself to be fully naked after having sex in front of a child (obviously adult nudity in front of a child is fine given context, like a father bathing his son) and how he treats the topic of child prostitution and sex as a normal thing that hes just not interested in. That’s still fucked up beyond reason. Doesn’t matter how “desensitised” he may be, if its a common theme or not in his line of work. Plenty of IRL cases show how fucked up people who are around those things get, and how they are forever haunted by it rather than becoming used to it.
I said it in my most recent topic. Stories can have dark topics. I enjoy stories with dark topics. This story normalises part of it, being the willing exposure of sexual conduct in front of a child that’s supposed to be from a character who will be a love interest for him. It is not treated as a flaw or as something bad. THAT is the issue.
People are allowed to criticise something when they see problems with it. The problem is when you have to reach to try and justify something as disgusting as this.
Just in, knowingly fucking someone infront of a child and then asking them whether they want to have sex, offering to find them a woman, isn't pedophillia.
There was zero pedophile action between the ml and six as a kid.
And that a twelve year old has a crush on an adult? How is that different to teenager having a celbrity crush?
And yes it is a crush and a very reasonable one at that. Marlon was the first adult being nice to him and twelve year old kids are old enough to develope sexual interest without having any clue about what to do with their own feelings... its called puberty.
Yes there is human trafficing of minors. But its not like thats not a real thing happening to kids all over the world. Thats reality not sexual fantasy.
If you see that as a kink or project it on someone who did zero sexual action against the kid thats your problem not the stories.
Just because pedophily and human trafficing of minors are part of a story does not mean they are in anyway romantasized or justified.
There is a clear warning tag that human trafficing of minors is a theme.
If you have a problem with that and still keep reading thats on you, not the author.