My take on Ian vs Lena in Slut Streak:
- First of all, both MC's can be played however the player wants them to be, meaning both have slut streaks they can reach but their Slut streak reach(how many people they bag) and how quickly they succumb to it depends on my second point.
- Secondly, Lena has more sexual experience than Ian. Ian has been only with Gillian(Chameleon) IIRC. and after her 4 years break. While Lena has many relationships and experience from them. What Lena may feel is normal in sex may not be so normal for Ian. But it's due to that experience of Lena is that she can easily go ahead in Slut Streak than Ian. Give Ian some time( a chapter or two) and you will notice him getting more promiscuous overtime.
This is all to it. You can see in this prologue how Ian becomes more bold(should've happened in previous chapter - yeah I'm talking about LenaxIanxLouise Threesome after knowing Lena was and is baging Louise continuously but better late than never).
IIRC 4 years was the duration of Ian and Gillian relationship, it's been about a year after their break up at the beginning of the game. Also, is it canon Gillian being Ian's only sexual partner at the start of the game?. I don't remember, but it would be pretty sad if it is. Even Perry had groupies back in their high-school band days.
Women are people, people are varied, putting anyone into boxes generalising them as a whole is always wrong.
Now, when it comes to porn I would assume that it's a safe bet to go for portrayals of submissive women, regardless of how different we are it's just a fact that society has historically put emphasis on submissive traits for women and therefore if they do not express these traits it is often conflated with emasculation of the male partner.
Obviously that is silly on the surface of things, but I do not fault the makers of porn for following these norms. They are selling sex as a product and you make the product that the most people would want.
Ian can still be on the cuck route and Ivy seems like she would be a less submissive partner when we finally get around to her content with Ian, so the opposite isn't completely absent from the game.
That's true, though given the banter between them I was sort of hoping for more of a switch vibe with their pairing. It would be kinda nice if Ian had a partner where he could just have a "let her take charge" attitude without it defaulting to cuckoldry.
Of course,generalising and just generally labelling people is wrong. I meant that in my personal experience (direct or indirect) most women don't secretly want to be sexually dominated. As I said, I'm not complaining about that particular fetish, just that, as you said, there's a wide range of attitudes between submissive woman and cuckoldry and that plenty of people can have even different attitudes depending on the situation and even for the sake of variety. I saw Emma more like a passionate girl with a non-passive attitude during sex (not everything has to be about one of the partners being dominant) and that she secretly seems to love being dominated made me thing of how much that is a prevalent thing for Eva.
It seems even Ivy appreciates partner who is dominant with her, given how positively she reacts to him potentially winning their spar, and his demands during the texting session in this update.
Ivy seems to go for the traditional provider male trope. She also seems to like Billy who probably won't be able to phisically submit her but is rich. She also seems to value strenght in people and considers feelings a weakness. But she's first and foremost a manipulator, it's not clear to me that she would love really submitting to anyone. In a way, she's kind of a young female version of Seymour.
