Dohun saying Yuwon was “demanding sex” is baffling to me bc Dohun literally assaulted ...

yeah considering that nothing he does with dohun feels completely consensual anyway, yuwon could also be easily making himself think he likes it. i remember being so confused back in S1 where his monologue during sex was like "id be lying if i said i didn't enjoy it" bc he always looked one thrust away from being completely catatonic

Yeah exactly! I definitely feel like Yuwon could be conflating enjoying the brief surge of pleasure sex gives him,
and actually enjoying sex w Dohun. But his disgust immediately after or even during sex tells me it’s not something he really loves doing.
Someone as smart as Dohun prob knows that Yuwon wants sex for pleasure. Which technically anyone,
even Seongmin’s bumass, could give him. But Dohun would never admit that someone else could make Yuwon happy. So he’s gonna say that Yuwon “demands” sex with him

Lol. No, sex is an act that can only satiate yuwon when it comes from dohun because he feels he is eternally indebted to him. Yuwon doesn't necessarily need to enjoy it either—sex is punishment. It's metaphorical flagellation for what he feels is having let dohun down in high school. There is immeasurable guilt, though subconscious, for being the one to sit there and take the abuse while dohun stopped it from escalating, and that feeling of inferiority we see present throughout season one for not fulfilling his duty as the "provider" and having the roles flipped in adulthood. He's angry, he's frustrated, he's humiliated, and most importantly, he longs to be back in that dilapidated basement teaching dohun everything, if only to alleviate the powerlessness of his own life. So, he is pent up. The breathplay is a scrambling attempt at regaining control. He's not accepting that shit from just anybody, and any gratification he finds in it is soured by the emotional paralysis of their circumstance.

Dohun doesn't keep seongmin around because he thinks it's pleasurable for yuwon, or some sort of gateway to his happiness; he does it because he knows yuwon likes to be "relied on." It's not a difficult pill for him to swallow.