User blog comment:Maxx-DxD/Author is pushing stupidity too far./@comment-4829046-20140702113100

While I do understand the sentiments, the wording you used was a bit too much. Issei already got over his trauma from Raynare and trauma ain't an easy business. So that point of yours should not apply here. You make it seem like something easy to overcome, but trauma doesn't work that way. It was subconscious. He couldn't even when he wanted to.

Here's one thing people seem to not take into consideration. One does not need to describe sex for there to be sex in a story. I know some LN series that had sex but never actively described it. I mean almost every ecchi series goes against Non-Jap notions since for some reason the stuff in DxD and other things like orgasms, tentacle-rape etc. are not defined as hentai until it meets certain criteria which Japanese Regulations have pointed out but even if it was against the rules to describe beyond groping and licking, they could at least just give us one small sentence saying that they did have sex. It isn't that hard. I'm talking shounen here. I know shounen where sex is hinted but never shown and they never had a problem with that and no one ever does in any media if it is handled that way. Now let me take an example from a LN that had sex but didn't describe. Sakurasou Pet na Kanojo. There was no other thing in it other than saying that they got on bead and then you just come back to the story the next morning and you figure from the dialogue that they did it. Granted this is seinen but similar thing was done in SAO though that one was really vague and no one is really sure whether they actually did anything. STILL! That means you CAN do it, just that it looks weird since you describe all the other stuff in such detail with pictures(like the near-moments with Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Irina etc.) and not the actual deed.

But yeah, the exact reasons why the editors(or Ishibumi if such is the case) don't even allow implied sex is unclear to me but like I mentioned, if they did have it, then the descriptive narration would look faulty and overall tone would contradict, thus putting them into the "Can't be too extreme" bullshit.