The author seems to have put in place this plot mechanism that allows for the obvious and essential handling of extramarital relations by both the MC and Anne and never uses it. That is that they agree at the beginning to share in this adventure, that Anne will be able to have sex with others and allow the MC to watch (or later tell him about what happened), and that Anne does not want the MC to sleep with his coworkers.
Well, to be honest, I think this derives from the difference between the original intention of the game — willing, eager cuckolding — and an attempt to serve other fetishes, like swinging, cheating, etc. If the narrative was greatly simplified — Anne fucks dudes, husband gets off on it — this would all make sense. It'd be boring as hell (and since it's what's happening in the latter stages of the game, we
know it risks being boring), but it'd be coherent.
Instead, we have all these kinda/sorta exceptions. She can fuck Martin despite her husband's objections, but then he can agree that it's fine. Same thing with Ryan. He can bang Chloe without consequence. All his coworkers, in fact. He never pays a price for overtly lying about the waitresses. He can screw
Emma. (And she can have sex with his dad,
again, just as Anne is, which is all kinds of fucked up.) He's able to get someone pregnant in both versions of the game, but will it ever really matter? Certainly
that's not part of their arrangement...yet, to be honest, I doubt it'll ever come up again.
So what has developed is Anne's runaway behavior of sleeping with everyone and getting angry if the MC objects, and an MC who consistently cheats on Anne with no consequences. The story quickly becomes stagnant and turns into typical porn at that point.
Right. Which is why I say that this is the only way to view the game in its current era. Anne gets railed by everyone with a dick, the MC does his own thing. You, I, and so many others had hopes that it'd be something more involved and complex, but it's just not.
So, I see where Segnbora sees this as just a simple story of cuckolding. I see it as lazy writing
Oh, don't get me wrong. I see
all of it as lazy writing. That it's devolved into simple cuckolding makes me enjoy the game a lot less. As does the patently obvious narrative as it moves to delay any sort of conflict or progression. There was, in the middle of the game, some potential conflict...to the point that the MC and Anne could part ways. Right now, that seems
so remote unless the player deliberately chooses to fight the core concept of the game. That Anne didn't get DPed on the boat, or with the cowboys, is just nuts. It's beyond time.
If all we're waiting for is another dick inside Anne, release after release, I fail to see how that's going to sustain interest forever. Yes, she
can have sex with the known universe. But just being
able to do it isn't that interesting.
All I was saying was that Anne's not behaving in a way that's ruining her husband's fetish by sexing first and confessing later. If anything, she's fulfilling it beyond his wildest dreams.