Personally, I don't have much of a problem with that. However, one of the few things I dislike about Mason Gambit, is how
hard you're pushing that view of
only being each others' first and only. More or less, you're saying "if you're not each others' first and only, you're a slut/whore, and don't deserve love" (it's one of the takeaways I was left with while playing the story), which I find a bit extreme. Love, or what you thought was love, doesn't always turn out the way you wanted or imagined it to. I believe you, your friends, and your family (and others who share your views on love/sex) pretty much lucked out in that area. I've yet to experience reciprocated love first hand, so I don't have personal experience with it, but those around me have.
Just to tell something about my own family:
My oldest little sister thought she had her major first love back when she was 18-ish. Unfortunately, the guy she loved (and shared intimacy with) turned out to be a cheating bastard. Her second major love was partially long distance (while he served as a helicopter mechanic in our country's Air Force, if I remember correctly), but his idea of intimacy was heavily influenced by his very conservative family, and he never took my sister's side on anything - even on minor things - instead, favoring his parents' views, even if they mismatched with what he had initially indicated to be his own opinions. My sister's third major love (as far as I know, that is) stayed - they've now been together for about 13-14 years at this point, and have two children. He gets very much along with our family (and our quirks), and we all get a sense this relationship is indeed meant to last.
My mother had her first major love with my father (as far as I/we know), first meeting while my mother was 15 or 16 (my memory is a little hazy on this, though). They got married when my father was 22, and my mother was 20, and I was their first child one year after they got married. Three years later, my oldest little sister was born, but their marriage had its ups and downs, mostly downs, mainly due to my father's major personal issues (I won't go into details). In essence, according to my mother, my father was impossible to be around most of the time. They divorced after 11-12 years of marriage, and they were sensible enough to make sure us kids were shielded from most issues between our parents (making this a major point in their divorce settlement, as we found out only after we were adults). A couple of years later, my mother found her second major love, who is now my stepfather, and they've been married for 27 years at this point, beating out her marriage with my father by over twice as long. Even after my mother's second marriage, my father and my stepfather actually got along well, and were even squash partners for a period of time.
After my parents' divorce, my father never really settled properly down, but one of his relationships managed to give me and my oldest little sister another sibling: my youngest little sister, who's roughly 18 years younger than me (this sister also has another brother from her mother's previous relationship, and we consider him to be our almost-step brother). My father and her mother didn't stay together long after her birth, sadly, and since then, my father had a few relationships after that, some where he moved in with them, but only lasting a couple of years before breaking up and moving on. All of those relationships ended pretty much for the same reason as my mother told me: My father's a good friend, but he's impossible to live with. My father passed away shortly before Christmas due to health issues, and he never found someone to finally settle down with, as far as we know.
My main point by telling all of this, is: Love is often a tricky thing.
CoryF, you were lucky enough to be part of a family where first loves stuck, and you managed to surround yourself with friends and other family who had the same kind of luck in love.
As I mentioned, I just think you might be pushing too hard on the "sex not done with your first-and-only love can
only be a sign of promiscuity, and that makes you a slut/whore" point of view, and I find that somewhat distracting from the rest of the main story. Especially when the story's MC keeps repeating this point of view every time the topic of sex/intimacy comes up. Or when another character repeats this point of view. If you're not careful, it can quickly come off as preachy.
I rather feel that we can agree to disagree on the topic of intimacy, and move along.
A better way of handling it, might be for the MC to tell the other character "I'm sorry, but I'm just not interested in you" (or something along those lines), and get on with it.
Other than that, I love story around The Mason Gambit so far, and I'm looking forward to where the story will take us next.
Many of the VNs/games around these forums aren't primarily porn stories, but they are also adult stories featuring sexual/porn elements. When it comes to intimacy, a great deal of VNs here also focus on love before sex, some deal with sex before love, and some deal with just sex (as the only element of intimacy). There's something for everyone.
