I got a hot take on Nick's obsession with Redo of Healer. Idk if anyone said this before but I'll take a crack at it anyway:
He keeps isn't it "isn't porn" and he doesn't get off to it, and that he believes it's a beautiful and artistic story. That's worse.
If you enjoy it purely as smut, then at least in theory, no matter how sick or depraved the content gets, you're only watching it to get your rocks off. It's a sexual fantasy for you and no matter how grim it gets, nobody really gets hurt. You could argue reality doesn't line up with that ideal, but at least you'd have an...