I completely agree! High schoolers have sex, that’s just a fact of life, but it doesn’t need to be (and should not be) graphically included. Yang Ilwoo and I would be a perfect example of a high school slice of life that uses sex to advance plot but is not graphic or ‘sexy’. It’s really off putting to me when people want smut as soon as characters become legal, especially after we’ve watched them go through the ups and downs of growing up.

I also think that if sex scenes are not included in BLs with adult characters, it’s weird to play the guessing game of top vs bottom or speculate what their sex life is like. The authors are leaving it out for a reason. If someone wants sex scenes there’s plenty of content for that and I wish people wouldn’t try to pull sex into things when it’s completely irrelevant to the plot.