There's a lot that could have been done with Bennett's storyline & now won't be. We'll never know what L&P originally intended. IMO the Aiden stuff might well have been introduced because he felt there was still a need for a blackmail path. Despite statements to the contrary, I've always thought that the Morello route was also blackmail. Again, IMO, it's just that the Dev didn't want to label it blackmail & have it look like this device was being over-used.
Basic anti-blackmail thinking tends to run along the lines that it's OK for Sophia to be shagged by her young, inexperienced (even if he gets a girlfriend, he'll still be learning), obsessive son, her own flesh & blood BUT she must be protected from blackmailers because they're baaad men. WTF?
OR to paraphrase "Animal Farm," 'Incest Good, Blackmail Bad.' Nobody was forcing anybody to go down the blackmail routes but to be scrupulously fair, we don't know for certain if L&P was influenced by the anti-blackmail hysteria. (I think he was).
Part of the 'drop the blackmail' argument was that the game would look too much like every other corruption story. Ironically one result of all this is that this game/VN now more closely resembles every other incestfest, replete with well-hung son. It's changed almost out of recognition from the classy tale I became addicted to years ago. Incest was a part of this, of course, yet somehow everything seemed to be in balance, the writing was good & the story was intriguing.
Reinstate the full Bennett I say. "Publish & be damned."
I can't tell you why you are so callous about sexual blackmail and sexual submission. That happens far too often
in the real world than one should approach this topic casually in a porn game. Especially since some, according
to the articles that have been published, are only about the main character, the slut, finally getting hold of
the throat.
So why should I advocate something and then play that makes me feel like shit, Although I know that Sophia lives
in a pornographic dream world?
But this is only half the truth.
Now we are, that is to say I exclude them from this group, moral heroes but also corrupt, perverted pigs.
As a result, the possibility that the developer has provided to avoid the blackmail route is of no help to me.
I am constantly tempted to play what I actually refuse to do. Because I'm missing out on something. Because I'm
greedy and don't want to admit it to myself.
In addition to the moral concerns, it is sheer egoism when I ask to limit the Bennet route or to give up completely.
I think this line of reasoning applies to every other fetish in this game.
Again and again it lets you break down partly on your own egoism and the fear of missing out on something.
Fear and egoism are the two main driving forces of man.
