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Agreed... sort of. Even in a game you can't expect a universal recipe to work for all the girls (i.e. spank -> fondle -> finger -> sex... or variations thereof). That's where all the character development Gary's been doing should come into play. Otherwise you have the same scene with 3-4 different models and that's just plain boring. You can have punishment as a prelude to other games with Chloe, Emily "bribing" the MC to avoid punishment and creative bondage play with Amy. It's all about variety.
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The game so far uses spanking only as punishment which is a little bit one-sided.
Spankings can vary in length, hit area, intensity and pleasurable play and range from a light slap (0%) on the butt over an erotic light to medium spanking (light sting, arousing) to a heavy trashing (100% pain, no fun). It definetely depends on the type of girl as well as the purpose of the spanking and further goals of the player (if he wants to punish her as payback, to worsen or improve relationship or if it is meant as foreplay leading to sex.)
The philosophy of erotic spanking training is to combine light pain with sexual pleasure and orgasm, so that the spanking is a positive experience for the spanked person. By repetition the body may learn that spanking pain and sexual pleasure occur together and it may develop a sexual expectation (arousal) which is triggered by a spanking even when sexual stimulation is not given, so turning the spanking into a positive sexual action. In consensual spanking it is important that both sides enjoy the spanking.
- Rachel uses spanking as deterrent. The player as a voyeur is happy to see some girls stripped and spanked with red cheeks.
- Linda : mc is ordered by Rachel to spank Linda as a punishment. When Rachel is absent, he uses a lighter intensity, but it is still uncomfortable for Linda, not arousing and stresses their relation.
- Spanking Chloe is different since Chloe is asking for it. But she is in control. She sets the pain threshold and if mc goes beyond she stops the session. They still use the punishment setting for roleplay. MC does not try to sexually stimulate her during spanking which is strange since he wants to have sex with her.
- Emily is traumatized by Rachel's permanent spankings and Amy is also not a fan of spanking. MC on the other side admires Emily's ass and wants to spank her.
- The Island :
(The spanking images from the island are great, but the effects on relations to Amy and Emily are bad.)
MC has inherited authority from Rachel which allows him to spank Amy and Emily the same way he can spank Linda at 21:00 (similar to blackmailing girls in other games), but again what he does is only punishing the girls, so he cannot expect the girls to like his spankings if it is no fun for them. This kind of spanking is damaging his relation with the girls and also results in an even greater aversion against spanking. (Read the new dialogs.) Once his authority is gone, he loses the right to spank them and he is farther away from a chance to spank them than before the island. This is a lost opportunity since he could have also used the punishment events to combine spanking with some pleasure for the girls to reduce negative reactions and to get the girls used to (erotic) spanking. If it is mc's goal to be able to spank Amy's and Emily's ass from time to time on the yacht, he failed.
MC is an expert for all kinds of porn. He could have known it. And it is even shown in the porn movie on the island. (Spanking punishment combined with some kind of sexual stimulation leading to orgasm, so that the relation does not worsen.)
There is a lot of spanking in the game, but it is too much punishment and voyeurism.
All the girls are strong characters, so they won't submit to mc on the yacht unless he can blackmail them with something. When completing Rachel's path, the consequence back on the yacht might be that Amy and Emily ignore him for a couple of weeks and form a girls club with Linda where they can have lesbian sex and fun without mc, at least until mc has somehow improved relations again. MC then is left with Chloe alone as playmate (which should be ok for her but not for the player).