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I don't think LP cares about the long term profits in regards to Dylan sex. If anything, Dylan and Sophia getting it on will boost his profits because people want porn content, not "realistic" content.I don't think L&P has any problem writing erotica. He isn't delaying or stalling out of any sense of bashfulness or discomfort over the subject material; he's delaying because he's trying to create a sense of anticipation and suspense (and that's being generous, many would accuse him of far more nefarious reasoning). But that desire to prolong the suspense is in contrast to a story that can't justify any more prolonging. L&P is afraid that, once Sophia has sex with a character that isn't Liam, that a certain sense of anticipation and titillation will be lost. He wants to build the tension as long as possible to maximize the effect of when Sophia finally has sex. He's making a business decision more than a creative decision.
My theory is that he's struggling to find a reasonable way to prevent Sophia and Dylan from having a sexual encounter, NOT because he's nervous to write smut, but because he's nervous that it will hurt his long-term profits. Once that cork is popped, you can't bottle it back up. But because of how he's structured this update, he's struggling to find a coherent way for Sophia and Dylan to move their relationship forward WITHOUT it resulting in something overtly sexual. The bath in part 1 was very sexual, but it kept a thin veneer that Sophia could pretend it wasn't sexual. It was flimsy, and silly, but fine ok. But if Dylan and Sophia's next encounter has to exceed both the bath tub event AND Sam's actions in the hot tub, then there's no way for Sophia to pretend it isn't overtly sexual. And once that happens there's no going back. The idea that we are still YEARS away from the first sexual encounter doesn't seem feasible any longer.
I think his issues with this update are 2 main things. I don't buy the art stuff or rendering, it's story related.
- There is no reasonable way for Sophia and Dylan to have sex in this update, it's far too soon in the story. Not just for Dylan & Sophia, but for Sophia in regards to her progress with everyone else too.
But there is also no reasonable way for them to not do something very sexual, especially with all the buildup previously and previous statements. So he has to figure out how to do sexual stuff, groping kissing etc for this event but not too much too soon.
- And that is a big issue. Because that is basically repeating Sam's hot tub event, which I'm sure he doesn't want to do and it's not much of an escalation of what happened in the bath earlier.
Dylan and Sophia make out, Dylan grabs her boobs and so on and just when it gets good...out comes Liam from bed because he heard something.
So he has to figure out how to thread the needle and keep things in the realm of semi-plausible.
I think your idea that the updates should be reversed is pretty good. The club is first and then the bath, but it's too late for that. A downside of cutting this update into 2 parts.