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Originally Posted by frahse
Don't be too heavy handed.
On virgins, consider the age and exclusive one sex schooling.
On tortured heroes I more or less agree, but then when you add "should be in therapy" I think you go too far. There aren't many left if you say that. Suffice it to say, he isn't in therapy.
Being tortured by ambition, by self doubts, by lust, by lost or unrequited love, by memories or fears of abuse (sexual or physical), memories of loss, failure, responsibility, and ""allergies"" or physical problems for example in that genre, sexual arousal or completion are all fair game.
(Pardon my grammar.)
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I don't want a virgin heroine. They can't make informed decisions about stuff like kinky sex. To my mind, it's a form of abuse. And I'm a product of a convent boarding school, and you seriously don't want to know how early I ceased to be a virgin.
We're giving the hero a bit of torture. A previous encounter went bad, he got arrested and put into jail, facing years of prison (and he's claustrophic) and he had to leave the country.