Just to add on to this- hooking up with them doesn't really get you anything. Hook ups are always going to be avoidable. At most, there's a few characters you have to make like you.
Thanks for responding (and so quickly, too). I hadn't realized I'd hit the end of content as an issue I run into with a fair number of NSFW games is the author has the mindset "it's hot, why wouldn't you want get the lewds?"--particularly in IF--which can result in a wall on progression if you don't want to see it. Always nice to hear the player will have the autonomy to avoid it.