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you know. The word love seems contradictory or like gaslighting when the preview picks show one of the girls completely nude on a stripper bar in front of a crowd rather than a private setting.
I'm not saying "ntr! How dare you show your face."
I am saying, this and this do not combine - are not meant to regardless of how many people think it should/will as long as consenting adults do it.
I mean... Real life strippers have relationships/romance outside of their work all the time. As do pornstars.
It ain't for everyone, and you're well within your right to not be into it personally, but it really is a "different strokes for different folks" deal. Some people like the idea of others thinking their partner is hot because it gives them a sense of pride for being the one that gets to go home with them at the end of the day. Others - myself included - not so much. Just differences in expression and interpretation.
The factor that would be more at play would be whether "love" as a stat is reflective of a deepened connection between the player and the npc in terms of narrative progression. If each event is just an escalation of sexual expression and little else, then I'm inclined to agree with you - "love" wouldn't be the right verbiage.
So, as an example (and I'm saying this having not touched the game yet, so I'll find out soon lol), if the build-up to that scene was something like the character having self-esteem issues, and the stripping was presented as a means towards building confidence, you could argue that it only happens because of the love interest's trust in the protag that suggested it.
Conversely, if the context of the scene is just unprompted "get on the pole and spread 'em lol" and they do so with zero consideration for their relationship with the player (and they aren't a stripper by trade already), I'd say that's more like... Dominance? Hell, maybe even just Lust or Attraction. Definitely falls flat on "Love".
Granted, this is all semantics for stat variable naming, at the end of the day lmao. It only matters if the dev makes it matter.
