What intrigued me the most, however, in the plot development of the second side job is the fact that Sophia, for her next sex education class, will have to bring condoms to the Myers' house.
This might seem like a negligible thing compared to the amount of cues this path can offer, but it sounds to me like yet another Chekhov's gun present in the game (which has now become a veritable
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Condoms are easy enough to hide from Mrs. Myers' sight: just put them in your pocket and that's it (I don't think, after preventing her from carrying her cell phone and purse, she'll go snooping there, too).
However, I wonder what interest three kids, who have no sexual experience whatsoever, would have in a condom? To anyone who has never had occasion/need to use them, they are nothing more than greasy, smelly balloons, not even good for making water balloons. Do they think Sophia is so clueless as to have sex with them just to show them what she's talking about? Calm down, guys, the Kama Sutra is not one of the lost books of the Old Testament and the pretext of “educational purposes” that Sophia uses to make certain choices is already Dylan's exclusive prerogative (although I must admit it would be fun to see her explain to the three apostles the sexual positions, starting with the missionary one).
For the Myers brothers' characters, more than towards condoms (which for them should represent a marginal curiosity compared to the hundreds of things they don't seem to know about sex), I think it would be more plausible to expect a fervent interest in that divine prodigy who has crashed into their house one boring Wednesday afternoon in the form of a biology teacher and on the chance to see (or maybe touch), through her openness (recklessness), all those things they don't seem to know about the female body.
So why would Sophia buy condoms? Or maybe get them from Liam's nightstand drawer? Most of all, why would she drive around the city carrying condoms in the glove compartment of her car? Will she have the boldness to take them to the Myers' house or will she leave them there?
It almost seems like a narrative device to justify their presence when one day (for whatever reason) her husband will have to take her car or maybe explain their availability, when at a later date, there will be a need for our favorite MILF to use them with any of the various characters in the game (take your pick).
In this regard, I can't help but remember an old video clip from the late 90s where it showed all the misunderstandings, and related consequences, that a simple condom can cause.
Then, regarding the lack of realism, I was surprised by a small incongruence. I refer to the lack of reaction of the Myers brothers in this scene:
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Am I wrong or is that "Jesus" equivalent, for good Catholic boys like the Myers brothers are supposed to be, to taking the Lord's name in vain. I'm not sure if it's comparable or not to a real blasphemy (maybe
Brother Robert could help), but at least from the younger (and usually more rule-abiding) brothers I would expected a jolt, an expression of astonishment or any other kind of reaction other than the total indifference that follows in the next scene.
But this is a nitpick compared to the mother of all problems... How will Sophia be able to continue her sex education classes without any sort of illustration involved? How can you teach about the female human body without showing an image of a naked woman? Thinking of sneaking in a few adult magazines (maybe just the Dylan ones) seems risky and doomed to failure (Ms. Myers would surely find out and bye-bye to a $300/hour job). Stripping is ethically unacceptable and, as mentioned above, certain excuses only apply to Dylan... So, how can it be done? How can you show yourself naked without actually being naked?
Joking aside, some time ago I happened to read about a creative Dutch biology and gym teacher (just like our Sophia) who, in order to stimulate the interest of her young students (usually bored during her human anatomy lessons), thought to wear, under her usual clothes, a bodysuit that reproduced the human muscular system and to strip in front of them to show it directly on her body (here you can find the news reported by
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). In the real world a bodysuit that reproduces the female features is easily available in any online store, but honestly I wouldn't know how this could be reproducible in the 3D graphics world of AWAM (I don't think it's available on Daz or Renderosity).
However, given the modus operandi the developer has adopted so far (more or less all game paths progress at the same rate) I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this to cool down the Myers brothers path that got so heated in the last update.
