I'm glad to read that you're one of the few who understood that if you don't see scenes, most likely nothing else has been done, much much earlier. As you rightly said, you have given little importance to past events that instead unlock many of the future events, without continuing to ask, "why the possibility of sunbathing has disappeared ...." It is certainly very difficult to help someone without knowing as he played from the beginning (and it doesn't help to know that "he followed the walkthrough" because it doesn't mean anything for sure), a game so long and full of facets like FOTM. In all versions the game has changed a lot. The first sex scenes with Melinda (complete) are those in the laundry room (it was the first temporally in previous versions, also because in the scene on the sofa after poker, nothing serious ever ended, even with Ann's help). The game, however, and I repeat, has varied a lot from how it was at the beginning, and you get to sex scenes with Melinda for example in the bathroom, perhaps even without ever having gone from the laundry scene, depending on how it was played before. "Tangled Up" ("Aunt Debby" has interrupted, but also that explained a lot of SNC game philosophy), makes it clear how the dynamics of the choices are and how he develops its plots.