If you optimize on edict choice, you won't need their bonuses. Having beaten the game on prisoner mode using slut build, there's surprisingly a lot of edicts you can safely skip out on without running out of Order. A lot of my runs finish without reception, gym, stripclub.
On my slut runs, i only use bar to learn my first sex skill and only occassionally do it to maintain some income early game. Toilet sidejob is for grinding sex level and orgasm (which related passives eventually reduce Energy loss from orgasm). This is without resorting to defeat spam and/or getting stripped naked by prisoners (triggers exhibitionist passive) to learn sex skills.
Honestly, the game pretty much encourages avoiding the majority of the edict system since most of what you can get is too expensive for how long it takes to get them regardless of if you run a combat, pervert, or slut build. My suggestions were more so taking into account if someone wanted to get to the sluttiness before starting most of the content and still getting to see it in a run. You are completely right, though. You don't need to do it the way I suggested.
The main reason to avoid these two jobs is because of the sight / talk action by the prisoners which counts toward triggering passives that lowers their resist.
Bar job is also kinda bad but on slut run, you are racing to get drunk asap to finish the session.
That said though, if you focus on endurance & energy growth early, you can still tanked through all the pleasure damage without worrying too much about being soft locked by orgasm loop and just play the game as normal.
The sight/talk passive gain rate only gets amplified if Karryn's body is fully revealed, though, right? As long as you aren't spending the majority of the side jobs with her T&A out and panties gone, those passives shouldn't be getting out of control
before you get your sex skills unlocked. None of the petting actions directly contribute to getting skills, so I tend to just avoid them until they are no longer detrimental.
Usually when I do the bar mini-game, I don't let Karryn get drunk until you're almost out of time so I can still do the side job while having the lowest number of shifts + gaining the most gold. You can stack up your endurance levels and gold really easily by only offering Ale and taking sips from/flashing a crowd of customers while taking breathers.
I do agree with all of your points, though. I think we ended up offering two very different experiences, haha.
