Thank you for your response, and for calling me out. You have a great game here, and my 1-star rating was... overly dramatic.
I like that there is a wide variety of content on this site, and I would never tell anyone what they should or shouldn't have as a fetish (to a point). But in recent years I've felt a push (everywhere) toward not just tolerance of certain ideas, but almost a sort of "required sampling". It was unfair of me to default to that being the case here, and I will absolutely adjust my rating (which appears to be missing...). I also didn't/don't understand the "tagging" system here yet, to have called your attention to the issue sooner. I have things to learn.
I started by running as admin. I then deleted the game and re-downloaded, neither of which fixed the problem. I then deleted the appdata/moonripple folder, as well as 'persistent' file in the game folder like you said. That reset everything in the options menu, but still wouldn't allow the access to those switches. And once again, even choosing the options to turn those features off during the tutorial did nothing, so I don't necessarily belief this was a menu/switch issue. Finally, I deleted everything, redownloaded, and that fixed the problem. So obviously there was a non-descript settings file somewhere in the game folder that could transfer it's data to exist independently in either location despite the other being deleted, but I'll admit my experience with coding is rudimentary at best.
Thanks for your help. I look forward to future releases.