I don't know if I'd compare an anime gacha game to "Friendship ended because I talked about two pretty girls at a hair salon". I feel this comment really symbolizes the entire point of this post.

>Ultimately, these are the kind of things discussed only by a small, vocal, very online minority.

They are discussed by a "minority" because we compartmentalized social media to some dozen websites. And they all have a financial incentive to suppress sexual content, be it visual, oral, or print. I think the the cause and effect is there.

"sexy" isn't "sexual". unless any pretty person you pass by is a sexual encounter.

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> "sexy" isn't "sexual". unless any pretty person you pass by is a sexual encounter

And “pretty”, even “beautiful”, doesn’t mean “sexy”.

I definitely think comments here reflect the large portion of male HN readers.

Talking is good, but be aware there are many readers.

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		Yes. 'cute', 'pretty', 'beautiful', and 'sexy' are all synonymous on the surface (and in my head I may use them as such) but in my eyes reflect different kinds of attraction. I've definitely put more thought into this topic than many, though. It's not easy at all to tell the difference and my US society certainly doesn't care to delineate between them. But a good part of erotic writing lives and dies on if you can understand which audience you are going for and which forms of language you use to evoke that spectrum. It can also expand to help in any kind of romantic writing as well.

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