Jokes on you. I will never wear pants while browsing f95.
Generally I don't think boo boo words removes someone's point, but I don't mind someone wanting a more civil tone. I've said my little piece about that particular matter and won't throw more poop into fans
I mean everyone has weird ass fetishes so i think it's fine, cucks are still people after all just like everyone else and shouldn't be discriminated for that.
I don't see Zaton acting like a cuck anywhere in this story. Sharing is an expression of the power he can wield, if anything. His whole narrative is a textbook power fantasy. Unless you decide to let the queen dominate you, I guess. But that would be out of character compared to how he deals with everyone else, so I ignore that option.
I don't see sharing an expression of power at all but people can believe what they want lol, this option is added for those who enjoy this kind of stuff clearly and Zaton like any other MCs is controlled by the players.
i see it as about the furthest thing from an expression of power
Don't know if you know who Jack Murphy is but this sounds like this logic.
Actually no.
).I mean, one way to view it is that Zaton feels so secure in his ownership of the various women that he can offer their services to other men without there being any doubt that the women will remain his, and not grow attached to the other men. He's such a desirable man that Zahra could never be “won over” by another. By contrast, a man who locks away all his women does it because he knows he's not worth much, and that his women would be glad to leave him at any time. This man knows that if one of his women were to spend even a little time with another man, she would find that other man better and be “won over”.
That's one way to look at it. Another way is that the women are so devoted to MC that he could tell them to do the most depraved acts and they will do so without question because he commanded it. And that's not just limited to sharing, but any other depravity out there.
Yeah, my explanation was more along the lines of “positive” empowerment, whereas what you're describing here I'd label “negative” empowerment instead.
Perhaps less pure, but I'd venture it's certainly more aligned with the theme in the game - it's a matter of ownership, not the positive self-confidence you mentioned (though I enjoyed your putting words to that - I could never vocalize why I felt such a "stfu betaboy" reaction in my head when i read comments complaining about sharing).
eh, not how I see it. It's like, MC could tell Zahra to get on her knees, open her mouth, and then use her like a toilet if he wanted. That can be seen as "positive" empowerment, I guess? Because she's doing it for the very reasons you say, such as his desirability, etc.
Perhaps, but I felt that, for a simple defence of “sharing as empowering” as an concept, an example of a “pure” case might make for a more convincing argument. Maybe that's just me.
It does matter, because most negative traits take away from one's “desirability”, in whole or in part. Take for instance the game “fuck, marry, kill”: you might have a one-night stand with the hot girl who's a bitch, but it's the (maybe slightly less) sexually desirable girl who's also fun to be around who you're going to want to go back home to day after day. (Unless you're really old-fashioned and you believe in a purely functional marriage, i.e. don't care about sexual desirability in a wife.)
It's true that, in the real world (and complex fictional ones by extension), it's never so clear-cut as in theory.
Has there been any examples of sharing that's not the MC sharing his girls? There is a lot of talk about the in-universe lore of cuckold behavior, but I can't seem to see any evidence of this happening from the perspective of someone not MC.
My mistake, I assumed we were defining desirability purely as sexual attractiveness. You're right in that if we're talking about the whole package, many others things come into play. Though I'd still say it's a debatable issue whether on the whole a desirable partner emcompasses more negative or positive traits, I think it depends a lot on the woman -but that's a debate better suited for a relationships reddit or something instead of here, I don't wanna take away too much from dev's game.
It's not really accurate to even call that "cuckold" behavior, that makes it sound like he's sitting in a corner furious wanking instead of commanding his wife to entertain the guests - i mean lets get real, by that logic a pimp is a cuckold. Though I'd agree that the story would benefit overall and the world setting would benefit from other NPCs offering you their family members as a show of respect or whatever....
I also wouldn't count Igor's niece. I don't recall there being any mention whether or not he's ever done anything with her, though, that doesn't mean he hasn't. Either way, that transaction was more of, "please take care of my niece because I trust you".
My point is that, if Zaton tells Zahra to be his toilet, which I would label a negative case, the authority goes from the top down in a sense. That is, Zaton orders something, he has authority over Zahra, and so she disregards her own desires and complies with Zaton's.
