To the game's detriment, honestly. It's called "Degrees of Lewdity" but the only degrees available to the player range from "unwilling rape-bait" to "willing fuck-toy," at least when random encounters are concerned.
The game is very inconsistent regarding when and when not you are allowed to be defiant regardless of your stats. I always found it strange how your character can max out their physique and rebelliousness and beat the shit out of anyone who tries to assault them to the point that they can step in to save others from assault, beat up their bullies, beat up their kidnappers, beat up prison guards, beat up Bailey, and become somewhat of a local hero—but if you take two steps down the street wearing a bit of make-up an encounter will begin where you instantly are forced onto your knees with a cock shoved in your orifices seemingly because your character chooses to immediately submit rather than resist.
Which is super strange considering you actually can resist, but only once the rape actually starts—punching and screaming and kicking until you escape. So why are you put in a compromised position to begin with if you are stronger than your attacker? It's not always this way, because the game occasionally gives you a mini-game where you can try to evade people stalking you by running and hiding, though one of the options is to just straight up hold your ground and adopt a fighting pose, but the sprite graphics once the encounter actually begins will immediately put your character on the ground in a powerless "please fuck me" pose even if you (or your character) never intended to submit and nothing even happened yet. It's like you lost a fight but the game just skipped to the "lose scene" even though you never got a chance to begin with and you know you could beat them up since your character has already done so many times.
Basically I think this game has mixed messaging and seems to not know how much agency to give the player. But one thing is for sure, it's simply not a "struggle simulator" like you say because you can actually become very powerful and even unbeatable and not struggle much at all.