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He doesn't really show interest in physical stuff, is constantly blushing & getting flustered when the topic of kissing is brought up,... That scene in Kouhei's bedroom when Kouhei goes too fast really showed the difference between them, I feel like at this point he's just forcing himself to please Kouhei.
Asexuality has nothing to do with being nervous about or liking sex. Some asexuals enjoy sex. There's nothing that suggests Taichi is asexual. Simply nervous about sex. Kohei liked him first, and he's more straightforward about his feelings. When it comes to feelings, even with simply their romantic relationship, Taichi has been shown to be easily flustered. I didn't really think Taichi was forcing himself to please Kohei, either. So yeah, no evidence whatsoever that Taichi is asexual. Just shy when it comes to intimacy. Coming from an ace person. Asexuality is all about sexual attraction, not about nervousness when it comes to sex.
I'm grey ace myself, hence my comment. I guess we have different takes on this but I do feel like he's sort of playing along as opposed to having an actual interest in dating Kouhei.
Wow, in dating Kouhei in general?
Yeah, he doesn't seem to see them as more than friends really? It all seems very platonic.
I can conceive that Tago is awkward and maybe hasn't had the typical 'teenager' experience so he doesn't have the right social cues, but this is really messed up. I thought chapter 2 was shocking, between him aggressively groping Ogi and pushing porn on him... It's so jarring it reminded me of my own experiences with pushy, abusive people who tried to talk me into having sex, and that's exactly what it felt like here.
I hate that the mangaka showed Ogi as fucking apologies as if any of this was his fault. These tropes of 'he tried to sexually assault me but somehow I'm the one at fault for not yielding' need to go already. And same thing for the bullshit she/he pulled with Kanako. Girls as plot devices, how progressive.
It probably won’t go away anytime soon because that’s the Japanese mentality...the women there are taught to believe that they are also half responsible for their assaults and harassment and so as a Japanese woman is writing it, she’s gonna think that way. Women are still treated very poorly there, like the 60s in America. Sexual assault, harassment, and stalking are very very bad and frequent there but it’s severely under reported because the cops don’t take them seriously even when they do report it and often shame and blame them so that they recant and no official report gets made. There are lots of documentaries about it and articles, about the stalking epidemic and the staggering sexual assault rates. The Japanese mentality is still very much “watch what you wear or you’re complicit, if you talk back to these men (even just telling them to go away) you are encouraging the behavior by responding to it”. It’s super messed up but a lot of women think that it’s also their responsibility when really it’s not. So often they write sexual assault as either endearing or a mutual mistake when...it’s not.