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I think the controversy regarding Nora & David is because he was only 13 (IIRC) when they had sex. This gets into what I think is "double standard" territory, where adult men having sex with 13-year-old girls is often seen as worse than adult women having sex with 13-year-old boys. It's hypocritical, but I'd be lying if I said I thought they were equivalent. When I was 13, it would've seemed like a dream come true to have sex with a beautiful adult woman, but I don't know what kind of psychological trauma (if any?) I would've sustained, and I'm not well-read on this subject either.
Correct, David was around 13 when he and Nora started having sex. Drew would've been quite young as well when they started a relationship (around 14 or 15 I think). I haven't quite done the math on Keira yet, but we do know that her and Nora hooked up (but that might've been after they moved to Canada). We know Keira and Hunter didn't have sex till after Keira was 18, so perhaps I was mistaken in including her in my list.I'm sorry, but what do you mean "Nora"? David was the one pushing her, not the other way around. Nora enabled it, but didn't groom David. Saying Nora is at fault is some "alpha incel" behaviour. "Oh, it's her fault because she let me when I pressured her." I think it's quite ironic since most incest games have a pushy MC who tries to reason with their mother that it's all fine, but when we're presented with this exact situation, it's the "victim" who gets the blame. Should she have known better? Well, obviously, but in incest game logic, of course not. I've always compared Hunter to the incest trope of using all sorts of underhanded tactics like drugs and lies, but David is the "nice guy" variation who just grinded love points.
Fayn is right though, it is a double standard. If the situation were different and it were (for example) Hunter who had been having sex with Ophelia since she was 13, I wonder how people would feel. Would they say that it wasn't Hunter's fault and that she pressured him into it (and he couldn't say no)?
I wouldn't have an issue with it if we were talking about adults. The simple fact of the matter is Nora was a grown-ass adult having sex with a 13 year old instead of shutting that shit down. She obviously didn't regret it too much as she later went on to fuck Drew who wasn't much older. Or would you rather we think that Nora is just some helpless woman who can't say no to a young boy's advances?