Arisa, the point of using underhanded methods to get your partner to have sex is to keep them... well... underhanded.
Not Arisa, man—when she wants to do something on the sly, she announces it in her loudest voice. It’s more honest that way.
More seriously, this is a great example of why I have little patience with the “deplorable behavior is always completely deplorable no matter what” argument, where genre and tone and the overall context of a story are assumed to have no relevance.
I can just see someone making the argument that “This is horrible because Arisa is acting just like a predatory date rapist, and the fact that Mari is down with it makes no difference.” (Also, “what if this were a guy doing this?”)
Which is why I think genre and tone and context matter.
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