The maid and Sophia had mutual attraction. Plus if you are seeing this event then you have quite a few lesbian points. So Sophia is okay with trying stuff with women. Here Nathalie came clean and instead of forcing herself on her went with a relaxing massage. It escalated from just a massage to an erotic massage. Something Sophia didn't plan to receive. There were 3 events before which were there to build the sexual tension between them and that sexual tension just bursts in this scene by an active approach by Nathalie.
Sure, but the maid walked into her house wearing a sexy maid outfit. And was clearly intending to do more than a simple massage. Sophia is generally fairly naive, but she isn't dumb. She willingly took her clothes off and let her sexy maid massage her. I think it's virtually impossible that Sophia didn't think
something more could happen. Like you said, they have built some sexual tension. She would've let her do more if the mailman didn't interrupt.
Sitting on a sybian infront of your friend a woman, and messing around with your son's bff happened in private. Erotically dancing with your sister in a bar full of bikers isn't the same. Plus right at the beginning they say that the place is giving them rapey vibes. So ofcourse Sophia doesn't wanna risk much.
Of course they aren't the same. Using a sybian is a VERY private thing to do in front of someone, friend or not. Especially for someone like Sophia. Was she safe? Sure, but that's still a big thing to do. They could've been walked in on. The same applies to Sam's hot tub. Was she safe? Sure, but I don't agree that it was in private. They almost got caught, she knew her husband would be home soon. She knew the risk and did it anyway, Sam wasn't hiding his intentions. She wanted it too.
Erotically dancing with her sister, in a bar where Sam's band is preforming, IMO, is a pretty safe thing to do. Even if the bar was "rapey", the bikers couldn't actually do anything. She was with someone else the entire time. She's been in "rapier" situations, in the shower at work especially and at the other dance club as a more direct comparison. All 3 events, the bar the tub and the sybian involved risk. One risk was getting walked in on, the other was her husband catching her. And the last was the rapy bikers, which IMO, were the least likely to actually happen.
Heck, the thugs at the part were far more likely to cause harm than the bikers at the bar. And she did yoga right in front of them without another thought, even when Dylan was arguing with them & got into a fight. They didn't leave, they just moved to another bench. They could've easily beat the crap out of Dylan and raped her. Yet she wasn't worried about it.
I don't know why everyone judges the progress in comparison to someone else. Like Sam got to do this much, so Dylan should be allowed this much and Ellie should be able to go beyond that. Why as such. What happens in a situation depends on the situation, the circumstances and what leads to them. Not what happened last time with the character or what happened with some other character. This exactly the kind of porn trope that L&P is trying to avoid. He let's the circumstances decide how far the scene goes and not the redundant logic of comparing which character is where.
It's not about the progress of the characters, is how that progress of the characters makes Sophia act. Sure, the situations aren't the same but that doesn't mean they exist in a void either. They all interact with each other. You mentioned lesbian points previously, Sophia doesn't do that massage if she didn't do lesbian acts previously. She wouldn't have enough points. All the past content leads to the future content. This game has a fairly strict points system.
A Sophia all alone with Sam whom she finds attractive, weakened by alcohol and him looking like her singer crush. Actively kissing him can easily lead to slipping away. A lot of the things like sucking her breasts and other stuff happened when she couldn't resist because Liam would have found out. Sam did what he did in the last part without Sophia's consent.
That's all true. But she knew what he wanted, alcohol or not. But at the same time, she also wanted it. She is attracted to him and his charm, as you mentioned. Did the alcohol make her a little more loose per say? Sure, but if they didn't get interrupted she would've let him do more anyways, IMO, before finally snapping out of it.
Also Apparently no one bats an eye to that. Sophia was totally cornered and helpless in that situation in comparison to during the Aiden event where even if she said to stop there would have been no consequences. But everyone felt Aiden was a rapist for touching Sophia's breast without her consent. But here Sam was sucking on her down there, Sucking on her breasts but it's all fine when Sam does it. That's hypocritical in my opinion. And there are more instances where the fans of the game act hypocritically and see no problem when things are done by their favourite character but when the same act is done by someone else it is a problem.
Sam and Aiden are not comparable. Sam, is a charming young man that Sophia happens to like quite a lot. Aiden is a blackmailer. They have virtually nothing in common. You say Sophia was slipping away because of the kissing and alcohol...does the same not apply to Sam? He was drinking and kissing too, he got carried away from making out with a hot MILF in the hot tub. He had no ill intent, unlike Aiden.
And just to be clear, I'm not upset about the update or the pace, I think these past couple updates have been very good. But that doesn't mean they necessarily make much sense. We're transitioning from the Sophia being naive and unaware of other people intent to herself beginning to want it. And sometimes, transitions are weird.
