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Eh, don't mind those people. The thing about TSR is, it has pretty unconventional story telling, and yes, that's because of the sex stuff. It's not as frequent as some people would want you to believe, and it doesn't last very long when it does happen. It's still used to tell a bit more about the characters when you look past the obvious. From William learning to let go of his struggle slowly to something like Nikolai bonding with Sam through it, doing it out of love. There really is more to it, and to me it's just kind of "a gay thing". You don't really see that sort of thing at all, and to me it's just interesting. Now yeah, it's not perfect, the descriptive nature of it is a bit much at times, but overall I'd say they did manage to nail that type of story telling, since it's set in that specific time, and Sam is a sex worker. I never saw a story about a sex worker, and I just find it really intriguing. I understand it putting people off, but that shouldn't be a reason to hate someone. After all, Howly did write Adastra, and Adastra while having only two sex scenes, has naked wolves all over it. So, it comes off as hypocritical. It's just different, but everything else is still there too and it does dive into what happened with the people (Nik's first ending is an example of this) so I dunno. People saying "it's just goon material" clearly fail to grasp its actual intentions.