Mainly because only powerful mages like Mallory can travel without sex. Rose needs it so does Lucy if Mallory isn't around.
That's why everyone is shocked when the MC could travel without it, he's the only other person that can travel at will to anywhere.
Mallory is one of the most powerful mages alive which is why she can travel but not all mages can without sex.
That's what I was going to say, only Mallory (as one of the most powerful wizards out there) and a few others with similar power (I guess antagonists are included in that select group) can travel without sex.
That the MC can seamlessly travel between worlds is kind of weird, so it's normal to assume that sex has a notable connotation of sex travel, at least for the female participants.
I didn't use the incest patch and, although he had sex with the dryads, Byni and Xara, he didn't use it to travel. I think it's even silly of the dryads to assume he'd need sex for travelling, when they know he was sent by Mallory. The fact that mages can just send people to different worlds with no effort at all and they can come back whenever they want makes the whole concept of travel sex redundant.
The MC even makes a joke how it must have been awkward for the person who first discovered it to suddenly end up on a different world after having sex, but there's not a single instance of this in the game.
Well, I have the incest patch, and the only reference I have to the other path is what the Dev told in the thread and in private messenges. He said it was a path full of sexual travels, so I've assumed that it is.
That's my impression aswell. It's just weird, because I would've expected people to know what this game was going to be about, after it started out with the main LI casually seducing the antagonist. Mallory's personality pretty much did a 180 and Idk if the game is better off for it.
Not to mention the sex drive of the fairies, the travel sex and the plot mandatory sex scene with Lucy you mentioned. All of this stuff doesn't really fit into the game anymore at the current update, but the story also doesn't make much sense without it.
Actually Lucy seduces the antagonist with a very specific purpose and it's explained quite well in the game why it's necessary. Without context it can be unattractive (and in my case I have no interest in the scenes), but I don't think that, since Lucy doesn't have any romantic relationship with the MC or anyone, it's bad in itself (it isn't NTR). In any case, these scenes doesn't convince me until I played and saw what the context was like, after that, they still don't excite me, but I don't find them as something that could prevent me from being interested in Lucy as LI (It's more her behabour with Rose and the MC that bother me). But it's evident that quite a few people don't think as I do. I don't remember if Rose's scene with the cat-man was so controversial (apart from the complaints because another guy had sex with her while Lucy boycotted that possibility with the MC), although not being an LI with which the MC could establish a romance, I think it was less "traumatic".
I like the fact that, after Lucy's scene, Mallory has modified her behavior and that she only has scenes with the MC. Lesbian scenes bore me, and while they generally don't bother me, I'd rather not have to keep skipping them (if I avoid them it's more for practicality than anything else). And I certainly prefer that she doesn't have sex scenes with other guys. It's simply a matter of personal taste.
Otherwise, we knew that the younger sister wasn't going to have scenes with other guys because the Dev had said so. And that it was going to be the player's choice if she had a romantic relationship with other LIs or not.
I certainly assume that the whole premise of fairies and sex, and the sex trip, was meant to include quite a few sex scenes (I'm going to assume mostly Rose and Lucy, apart from those involving the MC and some even Mallory). In any case, in the end the Dev has decided to change a lot of what he established, if not on paper, but more practically. Fairies are still prolific sexualy, but apart from the scenes with the MC, you only know that from Rose's few references to her sex life. Mallory has become a magician focused on magical things and little or very little in sexual matters (except in what is necessary for plot, and really just to talk about it). And the sexual travel is something that only the MC seems to be doing (and this despite not really needing it), at least on screen.
Personally I'm not going to complain about these changes, because I'm liking the game as it is. But this doesn't mean that they don't exist.
