Many others have spoken about this but I want to add to the screaming by saying how much I love the conversation that Playboyy is having about consent so far. Someone asks for it, someone gives it. Consistently every episode, someone talks about how important it is. How important it is to get it, to make sure it’s enthusiastic and how it not being so can be bad. How it can be frustrating when it isn’t given but the important thing is to make sure you stop and reassess with your partner before you continue.

This show has a lot of sex yes, but I think it’s one of the best ways to show that consent for this type of story. It’s about sex, the many ways sex can be had, the many ways sex can influence a person in ways both good and bad. Consent is consistently at the forefront and I am enjoying the hell out of it.

This show is trying to talk about how important being honest with your partner(s) is. How important it is to make sure that they know everything and can consent to it whole heartedly.

First and Soong both clearly have feelings for each other, but they are not being honest with each other. Neither thinks they are can be and they are a prime example of what happens when the truth comes out but not from the person it should.

Teena is not being honest about how frustrated he is that Zouey doesn’t want to have a specific kind of sex with him and I absolutely think he knows it’s because Zouey isn’t telling him something important. So as dumb as he is for believing Zouey actually has had sex before because of Captain’s clip, I get why he thinks that. He thinks it because Zouey is lying by omission. Only he misses that he is also lying by omission. He hasn’t told Zouey the original reason for his pursuit and Zouey is going to out and it’s going to suck.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Prom and Nont’s sexual tension feels more romantic after Prom figures out that Nont isn’t Nant. That Nont admits it. Both are being more honest with each other (though I wouldn’t be surprised if both have one more thing hidden up their sleeve). I think it’s not a coincidence that Prom feels less threatening from a narrative sense. All of his scenes have a softer edge to them this episode, because the two are finally being truthful.

Nuth and Phop’s scenes feels inherently creepy and haunting and it is at least partly because we know Phop doesn’t really want to be doing what he is doing. Still he lies and gives Nuth consent but he doesn’t want to. He lies that he bought Nant’s laptop from a secondhand store (I haven’t never seen a more obvious lie in this show yet).

It’s only when the characters start being honest that the truth can revealed. It’s only when the truth is known that we will know what happened to Nant. That all of the couples will know if their relationships can last or if they will crash and burn under the weight of life, lies and the truth.

Playboyy Ep 1

OMFG I laughed so hard watching this episode!

Playboyy takes no prisoners, we had the most random things one can imagine in a BL series: a winter cap styled as a fashionable Western spy in the deep Soviet Union, a finger on the gun trigger, a work uniform, a SECOND work uniform of a certain sex worker, a Titanic/meme reference, Detective Conan, English and Japanese in the weirdest moments, The Brush™... ✨✨✨✨✨

Fashion is highly questionable here, I mean my eyes bled, but we did get some great tits so it evens out 😍

What I like is that they behave like young men full of hormones, without proper sex education, but educated on porn. They are like many young boys/men I have met - gross, annoying, still looking for their place in this world and doing stupid things, VERY focused on sex, in one word: quite real. I'm interested in how the sex workers will be portrayed later in the series, so far they are not being romanticized, which is good.

Overall - yes, I liked it! Although it wasn't quite what I expected or wanted (I thought it will be more... dark?). I laughed too much in this episode, there were too many scenes that were intentionally or accidentally funny for me to take this series seriously. But Playboyy has a lot of other advantages and good points, it's fun and enjoyable and I'm really looking forward to the next episodes. Also what I really liked was how virgin Zouey felt more like a real person and better written, complex character than virgin Mew.

How can I be normal about this show when I have the exact same blanket as Zouey and when Teena is so fine??????? :O

I fully expect next episode to have Nont and Prom begin the process of becoming murder husbands. The gun in the preview must not let me down!

Okay, okay, okay. I had a thought.

What if Porsche’s sugar daddy is also the guy Nuth was asking to borrow money from? He called someone asking for to pay for getting Phop to help make his video. Could that have been the revealed sugar daddy?

If so, what is the connection between them. Drugs? Is the man getting Nuth to sell drugs? Does he know Nuth maybe have killed Nant?

The model, the fellow art students, the sculptures in the background and god:

“Really right in front of our [fruit] salad”

Can’t help but feel you should have at least gone into a stall for that

So yeah Phop is definitely not dead

…right?

I missed the Twink Troupe so much

Time for Playboyy

This is gonna be a ride!

Okay I have no evidence to support this and it’s probably (definitely) not gonna happen but for some reason, I get ~vibes~ from Nant and Zouey

Anybody else? Or just me?

Nant is such an asshole

…I love him

So Zoeuy is already babygirl. I wonder if that will change very soon

The fucking titanic picture!

Also the more I think about the ending of the first episode, I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that all of the sex workers introduced so far, are are revealed to be selfish assholes.

It’s only the first episode so I’m going to hold any judgement for now but..it’s not a look I enjoy

The fact that the first almost sex scene in this show is between Zoeuy and the escort (I can’t remember his name atm) is very interesting.

I think it’s also really interesting that that they don’t shame the escort for being so (good) but they do shame Zoeuy for being a virgin…not exactly sure what that’s saying yet but it’s interesting

Also get your fucking shoes off the couch you asshole!