Yeah, absolutely. There are some people who cross a moral event horizon that you just don't come back from. Maybe this would have flown in the 90's (even then to my chagrin back in the day) but this just isn't on now.
If you're talking about the dude who wanted to rape MC, in the 90's he would've been killed and everyone would have forgotten his existance soon enouth.
What I do hope is that the sexual assaulter is forced to confront his f-ed up actions towards women, and actually has to fix that.
Fix this? You know that rapist never "get better"? There's no fixing these people...
Making the money back? Meh... In the 21st century? Not so much anymore.
Someone before mentioned 50 shade of grey, a book aimed at women that sold more than any other book aimed at women ever.
All the manga mentioned by Someone011 are also extremely succefull and make load of money.
There never was a time when rape, sexual abuse and such made as much money as today. There area lot of story popular in the west that are all about pedophilia, abusing slave, abusing men and women who were mentaly broken, or straight up about rape.
Do you know that an extremely popular genre today is onee-shot that have adult women having sex with kids, not just small dude.
The only difference today has with the 90's is that today people run around boasting about how their country is moraly supperior to how it was in the past. And everyone ignore the disgusting things, 50 shade of grey being a best seller, because they disprove their belief.