I completely agree with your second statement but strongly disagree with your first lol. Personally, I find it disgusting when one wanna have sex without showering first. Who knows what kind of germs and odor you carried before meeting your partner. I guess It feels less sticky when u shower first. Kind of like exercising or going to the gym. It feels very different if u do it before and/or after.
1. For the showering part, I think it just coincide that they mostly have sex after coming home from work/school and it is usually during that time they shower because they just come from outside and it's dirty. Idk for Koreans but for Japanese they usually shower before going to work and before going to sleep because it makes you feel clean.
2. Thrifting does exist in these countries. Idk why they are not usually presented maybe because authors doesn't go thrifting?? From what I've read so far, some characters do thrift but they are not that heavily emphasized. Most of being are the discounted ones.
just a couple things I’ve noticed in manga/manhwa, and i was wondering if someone with more cultural insight could shed some light on it
1. why do characters often seem to shower *before* sex? i guess it makes sense for the bottom, but often both top and bottom will shower before sex, then fuck and get all dirty, then shower AGAIN. i feel like this is so weird? what is the obsession with being clean before sex? i think it’s normal to just go at it without showering and maybe shower after if you feel gross? some people are even into sex specifically after someone has sweat or worked out (big thing in the gay community especially, which is why it’s so surprising in BL, tho ig some BL is written by people who don’t research the community well)
2. it seems like there is not much of a reduce/reuse/recycle mindset in these cultures, especially in korea? often times a character will talk about just throwing stuff away, even brand new clothing inside a package that they don’t want, and i really don’t why? it’s so wasteful. i also don’t think ive ever heard once about a character thrifting, and im wondering if thrift shops even exist in these countries or if they are just, like, not a thing at all?
just some stuff ive noticed reading BL! not judging the cultures, just genuinely curious if this is actually reflective of the real world or if it’s just some fiction tropes, and if there is a reason for it