The author notes that the book contains dubious consent. The female main character does not explicitly give consent, male main character takes her silence as a yes. The female main character learns her brother slept with multiple adults while he was a teen, he says it was consensual but confesses he was not happy with it and only did it to blackmail the adults and appease their physically abusive father. The male main character discloses being sexually abused for money when he was a child.