Really I have not found any better example of healthy and...dare I say pure S&M play anywhere for any kind of relationship. Gay, straight, younger, older, this series just outlines exactly why this isn't just some weird fetish people force upon themselves.

Nana to Kaoru is another example of a great S&M manga. Though Kaoru is so ugly he makes sin look good, the relationship between the two main characters is extremely sweet. They can't communicate by normal means, so they do so with S&M. It is dialogue and thought heavy though, lots of reading with that manga.

I'm not sure what Matsuri can realistically do with this picture.

• Showing it to Yuzu wouldn't accomplish much. Yuzu already saw Mei casually using her sexuality, so it won't be news to her. If anything, it might actually make Yuzu wants to help more to rid Mei of this habit. Even if Matsuri is going to try and misrepresent what happened, Yuzu is still going to listen to Mei's version before doing anythging.
• Blackmailing Mei probably wouldn't work. She'd just brush it off with a "do whatever you want, I don't care".
• Releasing it has no clear benefit either. It's going to make Matusri looks bad in Yuzu's eyes, and push her toward Mei to help her deal with the fallout. And there's a good chance there'd be no fallout anyway. Mei'd just ignore it by acting her usual cold, dismissing any query from her schoolmates with a "mind your own business". Her grandfather seem to have decided to let her be a teenager for the time being as well, so no intervention from him either.

Maybe she'll blackmail Yuzu with it. Threatening to expose this to the school if Yuzu doesn't hangout/date her or something. Mei wouldn't reaction to such a thing because of reasons you've already stated. I'm not certain how Yuzu would react though.

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch17#3

Hitcher Guide to The galaxy reference there! I suppose Higashiyama Shou was acknowledging the passing of Douglas Adams birthday the other day.

I feel super slow. I just now realized that the title has a double meaning. That aside, I do enjoy it when the sadist isn't only displayed as a person who wants to inflict pain on their partner, but rather helps their partner feel pleasure through that pain.

Do I smell yandere??? Keeping an eye on this one.

Like it so far :)

Page 4 CH1 - is she using 'pigs' as slang for police? That seems totaly out of place unless that character used a realy offensive slang word in the origional - which dosnt seem likely to me unless she's secretley in the yakusa or something lol.

I also thought the use of pig was a little odd.

Awesome read so far. Can't wait to see the rest of the characters.