I don't think I agree? In terms of authenticity, there's arguably too much sex. In real life, an agent would have profoundly bad luck to be forced into sex on so many occasions. A professional, ambitious, trained agent's visceral enjoyment of all the harassment and rape would be unrealistic. Her willingness to cooperate so matter-of-factly with her rapists would be highly suspicious; she reacts like a paid professional, not like a backpacker. Female Agent's success comes from evoking a sense of authenticity, but it still gets away with a lot as a porn game.
Gritty/authentic espionage fiction is a huge genre, and I've read tons of it, as well as non-fiction accounts (e.g., Cold War). Agents seducing people is universally looked down on as a weak, ineffective, and unprofessional tactic (versus, e.g., blackmailing a target for something they're doing with a civilian, which is great). Maybe in the course of developing a single contact over a long period of time, but even then, it's viewed as a serious complication. Even James Bond is rarely/never asked directly to seduce anyone.
For example, it's hard to play Female Agent without thinking of the novel Red Sparrow, written by a real-life CIA operative and far more gritty than even the movie. In that story, a female agent is asked to use sex ... but only after being heavily trained for it, and she is judged and scorned every day by her own agency and even herself as not a real agent. And there is FAR less sex in that story (a story literally about an agent trained for sex) than in Female Agent, which is ostensibly just a story about an analyst with a nice chest being recruited to watch a bar.
In short, the idea that professional agencies are ordering their cute agents to sleep with everyone every day is pure Hollywood/porn.
Of course, Female Agent is literally marketed as porn. So while I don't agree that it needs more sex to be AUTHENTIC, I could understand that people here for porn would want even more (and I think that's on the way?). But even then, I suggest/request that the devs keep Female Agent's bosses/co-workers prudish/professional: it's been a terrific way to ramp up the tension and extend/deepen the corruption arc. I am not sure if I'm looking forward to or dreading the day when we start seeing how the rest of the agency reacts to her videos/photos; having them act too matter-of-fact about would be unrealistic, but so would them openly treating her like a whore, given that she was sanctioned. It will need to be a very fine line of acting professional about it but maybe subconsciously judging her for it, like how Hollywood actors can get themselves typecast after doing too extreme a role.
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