Also, the cover? Woo! I want to be where Rin is.

I think Rin and Mayuki have been the main focus, with Akira as the prize, so it's natural they've been more developed and thus appealing. Now is when it gets spicy.

(The plural of spouse is spice. Mouse, mice, louse, lice, spouse, spice!)

Obviously, author forgot (or choose to ignore), what a class full of teens is.

It's a girls school. Spelled out on page 2 or so.

First 5 chapters: strong and coherent, if twisted. I was anticipating marking this as a Favorite.

Volume 2: wtf??? wandered all over the place. Kujou's betrayal, Tomoe physically assaulting her father for no clear reason, unclear resolutions...

TIL that dental dams have a non-sexual use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_dam

Apparently it's a fairly modern idea, and not widely used, thus not widely sold. And you could just use plastic wrap instead. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/dental-dams-are-more-symbolic-practical/587539/

https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/20/5522106/the-sexual-history-of-the-dental-dam

'Even Richters questions whether the dental dam is actually worth the trouble. "Why you would use dental dams instead of cling wrap is unclear to me."'

'Richters also blames a lack of funding for the insufficient knowledge regarding the risks of STI transmission between queer women. "It’s hard to get grant money when people don’t die of being lesbians," she says.'

https://mashable.com/2016/04/02/lesbian-dental-dam/

I wonder if they take turns in who sleeps in the middle. Aka the one who has to crawl over one of the others if she needs to go pee at 3am.

I'm not really there yet, but when I left a Spanish-speaking country, it was a shift to be using English with the attendants on the (American) airline. Likewise leaving Japan after a few months for Australia. I do have arbitrary moments of using 'hai', 'da', or 'si' instead of yes. I particularly like 'nyet' for no, perhaps because it sounds like "not yet" too.

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So 'impregnable' is one of those words with multiple and nearly opposite meanings: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/impregnable

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnable

Goes back to the 1913 Webster dictionary, too. Not all online dictionaries have "capable of being impregnated", though, I had to look around to find Collins.

Of course, this in Latinate English; it's unlikely Japanese has the exact same ambiguity.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_night_turned_out_to_be_hot#3 looks pretty nude to me.

You do know that women have nipples, right? Unless we somehow know canonically that Yuzu was born without them, which would be weird.

The tag description doesn't specify full frontal nudity.

It's two completely naked girls in a sexual position. Saying it shouldn't be 'NSFW' because there's no visible nipple is ridiculous.

Cute story. Not the most realistic, not the least. Deserves an Age Gap tag.

Site doesn't have a Yakuza tag.

Huh, I only know her as a SaaYuu author on AO3. I'll have to look at Nanoha stuff.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_night_turned_out_to_be_hot#3 looks pretty nude to me.

Volume title is given as "their will is complex and white". Any idea what that's supposed to mean, or.any access to the original Japanese?."white will".makes no sense.

This is probably their attempt to translate this from the first chapter: "ひどくよじれて、それでも白い、純粋な想いの糸。"
It's more accurately translated as "This thread of memories/feelings is as pure and untainted as it is horribly twisted."

Arigatou.

Apply Rikaichamp and my limited knowledge for an in-order translation:

"terribly twisted, nevertheless white, the pure thread of their feelings"

I am surprised looking at JDIC to see that 白い apparently just means 'white', no halo of other related meanings like purity.

What's your evidence for believing that?

Pedophilia is a major problem here in Brazil. I see it practically everyday on news. The most recent one: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2020/08/case-of-10-year-olds-abortion-in-brazil-further-polarizes-the-country/

Also, pedophilia is one of the most searched tags on porn websistes, especially here in Brazil.

"Correlation is not causation". Especially here, where if your claims are true, the obvious explanation is that Brazil has a lot of pedophiles, who search for it and act on it, not that pedophile porn causes pedophilia.

Your original claim was "I'm pretty sure when you consume this kind of works, you're contributing to the problem itself", so you would have to provide evidence that e.g. reading lolicon manga contributes to pedophilia. Or back on topic, that reading about prostitution... causes prostitution?

Rocket physics and math in my yuri!

I'm pretty sure when you consume this kind of works, you're contributing to the problem itself

What's your evidence for believing that?

You challenge people to refute a claim you haven't supported or justified in the first place.

Volume title is given as "their will is complex and white". Any idea what that's supposed to mean, or.any access to the original Japanese?."white will".makes no sense.

The teacher dead why?

Edit: Oh, I'd forgotten about her sudden reversal.

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Kind of peeved the NEET removed her nerd posters as part of the cleanup

Yeah. Disposed of her figurines, too. And anything else that seemed in any way 'otaku' or even cute. "I is serious adult."

I'm also disturbed by the shading of the love interest's trousers in the last page. It's shadow, but there shouldn't be much shadow there. Has she wet herself? Is she wearing filthy trousers?

Ex-NEET looks ready to murder.

Stopped clock: heh. Well, it only showed up as part of the spruce-up, so maybe it was never wound/batteried.

Details! The bed got a new cover before the date, blue to pink. The kotatsu cover was green until the last page, now pink; I assume this indicates any time passing to change the cover. The bed had also changed, pink but a different pattern.

I just don't like the prostitution industry, how it exploits and hurts people in the real world and how some people pretend legalizing it will solve most of the problem.

And the opinion of actual sex workers is irrelevant to you. "I care about them, I won't listen to them."

they'd actually be OK with their girlfriend having a side job as a prostitute

You think sex workers never have SOs?

Pretty gay like devotion and princess carries. Not sure there was anything a yuri-denier couldn't explain as obsessive friendship, we're not at the level of Fate sharing a bed in lingerie with her friend Nanoha.

Yurassic park
I know, bad joke

No, great joke!

When were they lifted? There's like a two week lag.

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Actually, developed countries where prostitution is illegal never jail prostitutes themselves, but only those who profit from it and coerce others into it.

The USA is a developed country, and most certainly jails sex workers. Or cops extort sex from them under threat of arrest.

There is a new model, pioneered by Sweden, of only arresting the customers. This is opposed by the sex workers, and has resulted in more violence: the more law abiding customers are scared off, and the workers have less choice of whom to see. And the stigma of sex work continues to be high, including risk of losing their children: "you poor exploited woman" is a less respectful attidude than full legality with unions.

The hypocrisy lies in people who claim to care about sex workers but won't listen to them and deny their agency.

The only times where it becomes more absolute is in yaoi, where the nature of the act does indeed require more rigid roles to begin with.

'rigid' :D

(I'm not 12 I swear)

(Also not like yaoi couples are limited to just one kind of act, at least in theory.)

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Crude, stereotyped pigeonholing is bad though - and that tends to be what such labels in practice get used for in online discussions at least.

Internet audiences tend to be abysmal at things like "nuance" and grasping that human behaviour is generally a context-dependent spectrum.

And you're the enlightened exception, not at all pigeonholing the local audience into your preconceptions of internet behavior?

As for the topic, it's wrong to try to fit every gay (or straight!) couple into top and bottom roles, or ask "who's the guy?"

It's not wrong to look at a specific couple and see that top/bottom roles fit their behavior as observed so far. It might be rude to do that to a real couple but that's not a problem here. Especially as fictional couples may well be written with those roles in mind.