The only thing ive learned is that there is only on truly universal part of NTR. Its that you are supposed to have an emotional attachment of the characters and that there is a betrayal. That the story sets up a person you are supposed to either empathize with or self insert as and that character getting betrayed by a
love interest or emotionally important character. It common that there is a couple
but there need to be no actual couple involvement at all as I recall of the examples I saw.
I only know of NTR from the outside (personally to me its cheating or pointless setup) first theres just about no universally accepted definition since fetishes are about as different as the amount of people there are and this one is based on feelings, if you dont feel it there is no NTR. The shouting matches ive seen in irc channels and forums over which stories are NTR or not and which artists actually does NTR or just standard cheating were pretty bad, its fascinating reading though if people do it well.
Because NTR is not only about couples, since there is parental incestuous NTR too. I dont care to remember all the different examples but one prominent one was mother/son incest NTR where you are supposed to feel with the son whose mother is being ravaged by the bully/teacher/coach/whatever and betrays the attachment and chooses the dick over parental duties) or the standard loving and hardworking wife/husband (or gf/bf) couple cuck NTR where a boss, coworker or close friend fucks the girl and she loves it etc. This is either the hottest thing ever or absolutely horrible.
Or doesnt really make sense to the average person hence why NTR is so hotly debated and have split reactions to.
The types of examples were staggering as I recall. A third NTR example i remembered a the end of typing this shit up: Classmates, male person dreams of the prettiest girl in class and its all daydreaming while never approaching as he is working up the currage to ask her out. All the while the girl likes him back but is too shy to act on it, while getting her brains fucked out by another male classmate/bully/teacher whatever due to awakened horniness and fear of being thought a slut or something else dumb.
Typical Japan.
Anyway. So many people say they are the only one who can spot NTR (because only specific kinds or scenarios are hot to them) but if you really try to break it down into something universal and differentiate it from standard cheating and cuckhold the only thing left is the intended attachment and emotional betrayal.
I wish I could recall more about the threads I read where people were trying to pin NTR down, so many hentai arists names were thrown around and different works and used to "prove" that their own interpretation was the only correct one. Hell not even the non consensual aspect of NTR thats part of almost all works could be kept (the women usually dont want the sex at first but succumbs to the pleasure and wants it after and this supposedly makes the NTR better because its a "worse" betrayal somehow). Again for heavy emphasis
Typical fucking Japan and their purity bullshit.
To circle back, I imagine that loads of patrons think of themselves as Fuckface (a type of emotional attachment) and most of the women in the story show interest in Fuckface(the player) so the Fuckface(the player) engage and they reciprocate. Any sexual act of the women in the story after that happens with another male therefor becomes an act of betrayal (mc/player loves or likes girl -> girl does so back yet still fucks another person and you have emotional betrayal). Pretty standard I should think, the instory setups or couples/not couples etc dont matter an iota.
To me this is borderline insanity yet at the same time its not. It have taken me a long time to understand that to many people there is actually a difference and a meaning to this NTR fetish. I have never thought of myself as the character or experienced this attachment needed in story or text. To me its mostly all just standard cheating or convoluted story setup that doesn't matter.
I imagine that many people primarily care about what they see on screen yes, and ignore text. Just think about how touchy things are in tv and movies compared to books. Things can be described and told in text that couldnt and never would be allowed to be on screen. Also think of all the people that ask whats happening all the time because they actually dont comprehend whats being said on screen because they dont really pay attention.
Personally I care who people fall in love with or fuck in the story as long as it makes sense or is in character. Zoey is a great character to me and and i like her over a couple LIs and most of the sidegirls, i think she definitely should have hooked up with someone while away and have stated so in posts here in the past. That emotional awakening she had about the Fuckface seemed only 90% there but still it was still genuine and compelling enough with that amount of the backstory we got to read and see i can look past this. In my headcannon she fucked someone and got a deeper perspective, we just wasnt shown it or told it, just like how Mel, Sarah, Rio etc is fucking people without us being really told nor shown. They are only prostitutes in name atm, just a throwaway line like "paying for themselves now" and the rest asking for money from Fuckface and we can infer whats happening. Side note: The girl getting double railed at the dorm party is a fresh reminder of what we might get to see soon. Unless that made enough patrons unsettled as they couldnt tell themselves some convenient lie and DPC shies away from it, im 100% sure he tested the waters a bit with that quick scene. I welcome this development. The Vixens will be interesting if it was one of them.
Decent writing there. More of that please. Drama woo! Let the fragile egos face the burn of reality.
Then again, fragile egos have deep pockets and their vanilla fantasy can be enjoyed by everyone while the reverse is not the case.
