I really don't get why NTR is such a topic of online discussion. A piece of fiction about people having sex with someone other than their own partner: what's the big f-ing deal? Why do so many want to know beforehand whether characters will cheat on each other? Why does it has such a big impact on these players/ readers/ consumers that they should be given the opportunity to avoid it?
It has been part of poetry, literature, opera and stage plays for ages and remained the base for every soap that came to television in the past fifty plus years. Just a little drama people tend to create for the sake of amusement. With less personal impact then many of the other sexual actions that take place in contemporary pop culture, especially erotic and pornographic movies, games, comics, stories and VN's.
For example barely and questionably legal teenage protagonists heaving sex with their quasi stepparents/ landlords, their friends or family members. Way more perverted than some 'everyday cheating' I would think. Why doesn't it get questioned equally? Better yet: why can't NTR be approached with the same general consensus that seems to apply to this semi implied shota content? Or any other type of hierarchy breaching fictional construct for that matter, such as employee-boss and student-teacher relationships.
What am I missing here? Did I misinterpret the actual meaning of netorare? Because to me it looks like copy-cats making a fuss about nothing. Applying cultural context from Japanse origin to western art, coming from very different social standards. And frankly, I'm getting a little tired of this - what seems to me like - same completely pointless discussion over and over on every online social hangout like this.