My initial reaction was positive but slowly and sometimes suddenly it began to show the horror's.
We have 2 different MC's. One wants harems and is outgoing the other one is shy and seeks someone who wants him.
First MC: while saying harem harem is actually a sl&t and a person i would not respect in any sense. He is a biologist who is all accepting, who wills to have harems but doesn't constrain his harems towards being his only partners. He is man of low moral value since he is actually pimping out his harem member for intel, but his sin is weakened, because it's okay in that girls culture. He is okay with his partner being intimate with her father.
Author basically made a complete madman, the essence of harem is 1 man many wives, though he contradicts this definition and basically his harem is more akin to hippy cult or a public house. Also his attitude towards his harem partners is surface level and to a degree his harem members are calculating and also don't hold much regard towards him (i.e. he gives technology they give sex).
Second MC: Oddly enough this one despite having less screen time had more character build up. Initially he was pressured to serve the kingdom. Kingdom provided him with many resources and maids(who also work as agents). Unlike first MC's this one isn't only a researcher, he is strong and hardworking, he only lacks confidence. But he has a special ability, hype analyzation of people i.e. almost mind reading. He sees that maids despise him as a man and are not willing to sleep with him and will only sleep out of obligation and mission. He tried to be compassionate, tried to improve basically acted as a people pleaser but because it was seen as something lowly and obvious lack of self confidence, females were disgusted by him.
He was living with this hyper skill constantly feeling their disgust and finally breaking. He became twisted yet free. Maids on the other hand understood that they were imbeciles (like how tf stupid can you be, one thing despising a guy for not having anything to back him up + low confidence other is when you know he is ULTRAMAN but somehow lacking in self confidence)
The main crux and problem, whilst author tries to give readers some practical knowledge he is heavily brainwashing when it comes to humanitarian knowledge (culturology, sociology and etc.)
Authors also doesn't raise main concerns on some topics and brushes them away with sophisticated terms but alas they nothing more than a banal attempt to use sophism to mask blatant propaganda and idiocy.
While i liked punches towards feminism and our modern day critique (we simply don't have enough counter arguments on pop-media so left leaning people go unchallenged most of the time), author was using cheap tricks for argumentations.
I will not say anything about feminism, i'm not well versed in it nor i'm willing to advocate it.
I will argument about being all accepting as it seems the case with both MC's. Despite coming from our modern ages with a lot of schools of philosophy and history they assimilate local barbarisms too willingly.
1) It's in the culture to rape? Okay i accept
1.1 It's in culture to accept your wife being raped? Okay i accept
What sort of lunacy is this? Sex and especially rape leave deep impressions in us humans not to mention children. Why didn't author raise the main questions why it is wrong? He only swept it under the rug, sex is something intimate and when used excessively becomes less intimate and more like a game, when used with many different partners it destroys our humanities ability to pair bond thus making intimacy even more less important.
Rape, so if a woman doesn't struggle or defend thus leaving no physical scars it's okay? What sort of sick fuck could come with this argumentation, rape leaves emotional scars even if a woman doesn't defend. Jeez some women nowadays are even saying that having sex with husbands that they don't desire is something akin to rape they are forced to do spouses job but they don't want it and feel uncomfortable. Now fucking imagine if some random moron who can overpower you just does it...You don't struggle, because you know it's useless, you might even try to imitate some form of pleasure just to mask the pain.
Lastly impregnation, he is okay with someone else impregnating his wife. There are objective reasons why it isn't acceptable. Even if we leave in a complete communism and all resources are shared there would be a problem that some men have stronger seed whilst others might be sterile but we all must work the same despite him having 10 children and me having 0.
Never once did author raise those obvious arguments.
2) Being raped as a culture? Okay i accept
The funny thing is, he isn't accepting rape, he is just accepting supposed rape but it is in his kink range. I doubt he would accept this cultural phenomena if their culture was akin to mantis mating (after mating they kill males). But hey, it's in their culture(nature) isn't it?
3)Incest is good for teaching children? Okay i accept
3.1 (same culture) Giving your family members to guests for "fun"? Okay i accept
WOW, there so many things i can say but i will not. One thing is clear it's wrong.
You know 3rd, had at least one redeeming feature, these creatures had a "fun" hole and one for breeding so offering a fun hole was okay but before marriage father could teach their daughter with REAL HOLE (without insemination i.e. pulling out). Like author could at least leave some human decency and tell us that even fathers used fun holes.........Nope just needed to make it even more disgusting. (Ohh and also once again completely disregarding emotional aspect to intimacy).
Last note. Author completely avoids the crucial aspect of intimacy and what it brings to us. One of the main points of monogamy or harems is that intimacy brings security. You share a lot of secrets and details with your intimate partner including your weaknesses by giving or sharing your intimate partner you essentially expose yourself and risk your weaknesses and secrets being exposed. (Not to mention impregnation, especially aggravating in that world since children will be of mothers race unless goblins and orcs are involved, so without modern DNA testing "free love" is especially dumb idea).
Our current world has those incidents happening more often and is more accepting towards cheating because we all have ability to DNA test our children, so the severity of cheating is decreased.
There are modern day AGENTS whose sole objective is to SEDUCE someone's spouse in order to convert them or steal secrets and higher up you go in our society the more chances you get to meet those agents. Heck there might be some people among your "friends" who are jealous who will seduce your spouse and try to steal secrets to damage you.
Author tries to make serious arguments but his level isn't enough to go deep.
Don't point a gun if you don't have ammunition, 'cause someone might point a loaded gun.
P.S. Honestly? There are lot of things that are wrong with this work, feminist can write how this work is sexist, traditionalist will point out it's sadomit nature and etc..............I initially liked it but when author started to dabble with philosophy and serious subjects and basically screaming FAULTY IDEOLOGIES (Not decent argumentation). And i can't say if he is a feminist, MRA or something else, he is everything and nothing.