there's a conversation with Kim about why she's still with Pete and I chose the option that there are guys who are into this (mainly into being cucked as I understood it [maybe she should be with Carl?]). After I chose this option she asks MC if he has himself in mind and he - to my initial surprise - confirmed her suspicion. In truth however I chose this option because I was genuinely thinking that MC will suggest her that she should leave Pete and find someone else (neither Pete nor MC) who shares her kinks.
This is, indeed, the intended sequence of events. If it didn't happen like that, there might be a bug somewhere. But I've tried to recreate your conditions and everything seems okay. So if I'm in the path:
During that conversation there will be this sequence of events:
You can leave, or ask "why doesn't she break up with Pete"; she will say why she's still with him; next, you can only pick "Pete" doesn't deserve that (in other paths, this option can still be picked, but the other "Fuck, that's hot" option is also available, that leads to a different part than what you want; anyway, you should have picked the first option).
And, finally, we get to the place you were talking about. Here you can just bail out of the conversation, or ask her "you could get the same power trip from a consenting partner". She'll go on until she says "Yeah? Like who? You?" And here you should be able to say, "Yes" or "Keep dreaming". If you pick "Keep dreaming", the MC will say other men that like the same kinks as her, not him. Which, I think, is more or less what you were asking for.
Is it hard for you to load your old save and check if, indeed, you don't get these options? This scene is quite complicated with all the paths and options, I wouldn't be surprise if there is a bug somewhere. But it seems to work as intended in my test.
Question about the loveometer: at the end of chapter 5, with Kim as biggest crush and cheating with her on manly path, the feelings status says you find her...interesting. Is that intentional? Feels like it should be at least attracted to.
Good point. I agree that it makes sense to upgrade that to something more appropriated.
To answer your question - I myself would want the choice to either go the pegging route or go more vanilla. I'm not interested in pegging, but I'm sure some folks are. So I usually go the route of compromise.
Yeah, I suspected so. And that's what it makes it so tricky, because then it would require adding a new variant to all scenes with Deb.
But the same should also be true in reverse. There are people that have said that, for example, Lea is too vanilla, (or Jen too kink, or... ), so now I'd also need to add two more routes so that everyone has a vanilla-ish and a kinky-ish lewd scene with any girl they like. The same for the maledom paths... you can see how this snowballs to a big number of paths.
So, that's why splitting the "kinky levels" between the girls, with some more vanilla and some more kinky, is much more reasonable. It also helps to create different personalities to them, with different tastes, etc. Of course:
I like this in concept. But sometimes one doesn't know what one is getting into until they're many layers into the kink.
This can be an issue. In my defense, this happens with all games, you never now what you're getting into. Walkthroughs can help, perhaps looking at scenes in the gallery ahead of time if you don't mind getting spoiled, or just have multiple playthroughs and then stop those that aren't going like you wished.