After Retirement, Living a Stud Life in Another World Chapter v18 Discussion

This novel is interesting... I want to read on, but it may not be for everyone. A part of me rebels deeply against the world the author has laid out so far in only 8 chapters.

Men are absolutely sh*t on in this world. They are weaker than women and basically owe everything to women. The ONLY way they can succeed is by being lucky enough to be able to consistently get women pregnant with powerful daughters.

As is pointed out, due to the ability for one man to get several women pregnant even though the ratio is roughly the same the stock of the average man is way low. Additionally, add on the humiliation of a NATIONAL codex that rates you against every other man, good if you are on top, sucks if you are on the bottom cause everyone will know.

Due to magic being solely in the control of women men are defacto excluded from the ranks of intelligentsia. Due to magic regular engineering isn't really a thing. The MC is handling the world transition better than I would. I would be viscerally rebelling against it all.

Time will tell if this is actually harem, I don't think being studded out to anyone who can pay is really a harem.

Edit: Updated thoughts as of C34, spoilers of course

Spoiler

So it is harem, but if you were a mob guy reincarnated into this world f*ck this guy. He gets not one wife, but three. One one of whom basically lives to only want him. The MC is still just getting dragged along by women. Yet is still getting a better end of the deal than any average guy.

There has been less than a half-assed attempt at pointing out how shitty this world is for guys. So I kinda wanna explain it from my view as the reader if I imagined myself in this world as not the MC, but instead an average Joe reincarnation.

At the time of the onset of puberty EVERY guy (at least of nobility rank) is made to sleep with eight different women of varying magical attributes to see how good of an off spring they can put out. If you put out shitty offspring f*ck you no one will ever want to sleep with you again. Also, you get 1 night to attempt to imp**gnate each woman, eight nights in a row (at least from what I could tell). Sure hope you weren't born with any genetic abnormalities that might make this a challenge. Oh yeah, and this would effectively be state-enforced statutory r*pe in the real world, the women will be older than you, may or may not be virg*ns.

To be fair, this is a bit shitty for the women, being pushed into relationships with young guys. No idea how much say they get in it or volunteering. However, any hard feelings for them are removed by their open secret womanly book.

All the women secretly judge you in an open secret book where they rank your love making. You know the lovemaking you were so skilled at 13? Cause it's not enough to just rate how many daughters you give them (as though you have ANY control of that), and how strong those daughters are.

Oh yeah, by the way they can measure a daughter's magic AND attribute at birth, yet somehow it seems like men are basically non-magical? How the f*ck does that work genetically? Also, this event is called a baptism for women as well.

So to summarize, as a dude, the BEST you can hope for on your own merits is to be a civil employee (looked down upon, see water mage women). You will be judged your entire life starting at the age of 13 for your s*xual ability AND ability to produce SPECIFIC types of offspring. You can also end up being used as a LITERAL meat shield for the women in the event of war.

MC of course ends up with God s*erm. Eight women, all daughters, all powerful magic levels. MC is then effectively strong armed into marrying into the Royal family, where he is flat out told failure to produce a female heir means his wife WILL have s*x with another man. Need I point out the man has proven GOD s*erm, if there is no female heir it will have to be her fault.

Also, the royal family sneakily approves male centered harem and NO ONE BATS AN EYE. Despite there being NO precedence for 1 man marrying many women. There is precedence for one woman having many men as a status symbol. Cynically, allowing the male centered harem allows the royal family to calm noble sentiment that they are keeping all the good s*erm for themselves while still controlling who gets super babies.

Oh yeah, and if your childhood female friend beats the sh*t out of you to the point where you are hospitalized, no one says anything negative to her.

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