"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."
Avoiding dub-con would explain why I haven't exactly seen much raunch, aside from happening into occasional gifs. As a point of reference, Moonlight Chicken would be amongst the top 3 or 4 most explicit I've seen from Thailand. There is some in between, thought it's more along the lines of horizontal kissing and hugs. Last Twilight did that very well IMO. I don't know if you'd like that one, there is plot beyond the romance but it's very centered around the two MLs and their friendship.
I've had good luck with lakorns with some LGBTQ+ representation, like Khun Chaai and Matalada, and Thai PBS which can be counted on for very earnest, progressive and sometimes truly excellent series and lakorns. IMO Tale of a Thousand Stars is like a mini-lakorn. Fewer episodes (like a series) but longer in duration (like a lakorn) and oh does it pack the melodrama in :)
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Avoiding dub-con would explain why I haven't exactly seen much raunch, aside from happening into occasional gifs. As a point of reference, Moonlight Chicken would be amongst the top 3 or 4 most explicit I've seen from Thailand. There is some in between, thought it's more along the lines of horizontal kissing and hugs. Last Twilight did that very well IMO. I don't know if you'd like that one, there is plot beyond the romance but it's very centered around the two MLs and their friendship.
Were any of the M/F lakorns on this list? https://mydramalist.com/list/389deQR4
I've had good luck with lakorns with some LGBTQ+ representation, like Khun Chaai and Matalada, and Thai PBS which can be counted on for very earnest, progressive and sometimes truly excellent series and lakorns. IMO Tale of a Thousand Stars is like a mini-lakorn. Fewer episodes (like a series) but longer in duration (like a lakorn) and oh does it pack the melodrama in :)