They’re addressed to varying degrees, some successfully and some not, but all are included in the text as part of the world Morgan is building, which renders accusations of whitewashing invalid.
However, these are all key points in the source material, written by Richard K. To literally whitewash a story and include various scenes of sexual assault, gratuitous nudity, and violence towards women and people of color seems immediately tone deaf, given our current cultural conversation. Without context, these are all questionable choices. They make their money through the torture industry, and there's a brothel in the clouds that allows them to live out their sickest fantasies, most of which include killing sex workers, because their sleeves are believed to be as replaceable as condoms. He enters a world full of debauchery, where the rich - called “Meths” - can live forever and spend the centuries engaging in violent, sadistic and often fatal sex acts.
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