That's wrong, although I can't rule out that the way I phrased the changelog entry was a bit ambigous (using 'for' instead of 'about').
All dreams in TM! are supposed to be the MC's. They're supposed to represent his hidden desires, not the girls'!
Same for any and all 'Forbidden Fantasies' on the crystal.
Emily is pure in this regard, it's all on the MC.
Memories are canon, fantasies are not.
Originally, the crystal wasn't supposed to be such a central part of that update.
The original main purpose of the crystal is to (eventually) show the future after impregnating girls, to implement pregnancy scenes without forcing an ending to the main game loop.
The idea to use it for memories and fantasies as well came later. Whether that was the brightest idea I've ever had is up for debate, but in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess.
Generally speaking, it's supposed to be more of a "niche bonus scenes corner" than an integral part of the game.
It just got more attention than it really deserves since 0.23 didn't get as much main game content as originally planned and the changelog advertises it more than it possibly should have.
I guess that's one point I have to yield, since this was my first bigger project and some of the more controversial stuff (including the dreams and lesbian content) were started in an early phase of development when I indeed had little to no clue about this.
That being said, in patron polls (optional) lesbian content did/still does relatively well.
But yes, future projects will be more targeted.
It isn't.
There's literally a switch in Preferences to disable all lesbian content. The question is asked when starting a new game, too.
And all lesbian content is sandbox-only (no mainstory scenes), so you could still avoid it even if the content as such is enabled. It's not needed for game progression.
There won't be any. I know some of the (avoidable) GxG content is technically sharing with a whiff of cucking if you're strict with the facts, but those are a) all avoidable sandbox-only scenes, b) tied to the lesbian content switch mentioned above.
Apart from some memories from a time before the girls met the MC, there won't be any canon scenes involving any other guys, and the only memories where any guy(s) actively do something are that one Jenna scene and one sidegirl scene in 0.24.
And fwiw, the "photographers" in the dreams are all supposed to be dream alter-egos of the MC.
