This will be my last post on this topic, only because you specifically asked me to respond. I don't know how you can see the relationship as anything but equal. Both the MC and Cathy have permission to sleep with one other person, separately, and together. They discussed it and both agreed. I didn't sense any pressure, or unwillingness of either the MC or the wife. As far as I can tell they are both wholeheartedly into it. Just because it was the wife who brought it up, after the MC was clearly into and leering at Alice, doesn't mean that he is being forced into it. In an equal relationship either party can bring up what they want. That is my whole point. The MC was with Alice first, and Cathy was with Lydia first, and eventually they will all be together, clearly the way the story is going. I really don't know how you can be more equal than that.
But clearly several facepalmers (which doesn't bother me, facepalm all my posts if it makes you happy), don't see it this way. I thought I could inform a few people. All the games here are so one sided with the male MC having all the fun and the oblivious wife either not knowing about it, or ok with it but enjoying the husband only, that when a game is released where it is almost totally equal (though as Aioto pointed out in a previous post, the MC has more sex scenes than Cathy), it seems like a shock and bothers a fair number of people.
Fair enough. I don't see why it bothers people personally, but everyone has different tastes. If you like the wife to be totally subservient and fawning to her husband, while he plays around with all the woman alone, clearly A Knights Tale isn't the game for you. There are about 2000 other games here that will be right up your alley. Whenever a dev tries to do something a little different, and defy the stereotype of typical games here, they always get tons of complaints from those that want all the games here to be the same.