The gym curse is directly tied to orientation, so that one is unavoidable. The nature of Charlton is to push everyone into hetrosexual relationships (plus patriarchal and sexist mentality), but big part of the game is to offer options for players to push back, rebel and ultimately stop the people doing this, so there will be options to avoid / push back on this. I would say it's definitely not inevitable, but some curses / magical items will increase orientation.
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No problem! I'd say dom power dynamic is probably out - but there will be sub power dynamics in there.
In terms of paths, I'm trying to balance a mixture of gameplay styles, giving options for players who want to play against the sexism, embrace it, submit to it. Given it's not the nicest of towns, I don't want players to feel they have to get railroaded into a way of playing through. So it should be possible to move through the main quests and have enough options in side quests to suit their character.
There's very little FF in the game and no nsfw content yet for it. Given the Stepford flavour, the town fights against anything outside of heterosexual patriarchy, but there are characters that showcase how these things are dealt with. And this will lead to the player being able to help those scenarios, and the game will support certain FF paths if the player chooses that way. As a finger in the air, it's probably going to be 70% FM / 40% FF, but early days yet.
Hope that helps!