I give Gojyo the slide for that(though, in general, they're more like Yukimura, where the moral code about it keeps me from disliking them for it, but doing it in the first place keeps me from ever warming up to them the way others do...most seem to have that add to the appeal for them, though) and because he's the only character I've ever encountered where yes, it actually does make perfect sense for his issues to take that form. A lot of his issues stem from someone else enduring sexual abuse for him, which are a result of his being the product of an affair. If he hadn't grown up with an extremely skewed idea of sex and sexual relationships, I'd yell "copout!"
He also doesn't seem to have the "I have sex with a string of people to distract myself from my angst, but I discard and forget them right after. With Gojyo, it seems to be actively looking for a connection in the wrong way, instead of using it to avoid deeper connections.
In the case of Laures, he was visiting Hilda and being alpha guy protective "but now I think about how you are too pure and good for me and go to whores to distract me from the angst of losing your and then having you be reborn too good for me" which is a bit different. I think what saved it for me was that when she made him come clean about the act (as much as she could) in the first volume, she was "yeah, you may be hot, but screw you, you loser, you don't get to make those choices for me." (Which, come to think of it, seems to have had the desires effect as the only indications of any action on his part since is the possibility of him letting the count have sex with him to protect Hilda, though the count seems to be into kinky things that don't involve actual intercourse.)
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Date: 2008-08-18 12:57 am (UTC)He also doesn't seem to have the "I have sex with a string of people to distract myself from my angst, but I discard and forget them right after. With Gojyo, it seems to be actively looking for a connection in the wrong way, instead of using it to avoid deeper connections.
In the case of Laures, he was visiting Hilda and being alpha guy protective "but now I think about how you are too pure and good for me and go to whores to distract me from the angst of losing your and then having you be reborn too good for me" which is a bit different. I think what saved it for me was that when she made him come clean about the act (as much as she could) in the first volume, she was "yeah, you may be hot, but screw you, you loser, you don't get to make those choices for me." (Which, come to think of it, seems to have had the desires effect as the only indications of any action on his part since is the possibility of him letting the count have sex with him to protect Hilda, though the count seems to be into kinky things that don't involve actual intercourse.)