I think there's basically a history of rape in romances produced in all countries that write/film them... it's just not always labelled/"recognised' as such. The old Mills & Boon books (called Harlequin in the US) that my grandmother had were full of men forcing themselves on women who then decided they 'loved' it.
I've watched three Thai M/F lakorns and only managed to watch all of one of them for pretty much these reasons.
I really haven't watched/attempted to watch that many Thai M/M romance dramas (the romance genre in general really isn't my thing) but I find they tend to roughly split into extremely sweet & innocent (some hugs and perhaps a kiss or two) with very 'virginal' characters like My Engineer or very dub-conny raunchy stuff which is extremely popular. There appears to be very little made between the two extremes.
As I've said elsewhere, my two favourite Thai dramas are M/M but they actually have a plot beyond the romance aspects which have none of these elements. In one of them, there's some extremely bad M/F stuff going on in the plot but it is called out and not presented as 'sexy' or in a 'sexy' way at all.
ETA: When I followed your link, I was reminded of Moonlight Chicken and A Tale of Thousand Stars that are more in the middle ground and I loved both of them.
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Date: 2024-07-16 09:11 pm (UTC)I've watched three Thai M/F lakorns and only managed to watch all of one of them for pretty much these reasons.
I really haven't watched/attempted to watch that many Thai M/M romance dramas (the romance genre in general really isn't my thing) but I find they tend to roughly split into extremely sweet & innocent (some hugs and perhaps a kiss or two) with very 'virginal' characters like My Engineer or very dub-conny raunchy stuff which is extremely popular. There appears to be very little made between the two extremes.
As I've said elsewhere, my two favourite Thai dramas are M/M but they actually have a plot beyond the romance aspects which have none of these elements. In one of them, there's some extremely bad M/F stuff going on in the plot but it is called out and not presented as 'sexy' or in a 'sexy' way at all.
ETA: When I followed your link, I was reminded of Moonlight Chicken and A Tale of Thousand Stars that are more in the middle ground and I loved both of them.