These “romance” titles with no romance happening

You know the drill:
>Beta plain self-insert male protagonist
>Hot as fuck bitches throw themselves at him
>Nothing happens
>Not even handholding
>All sexy scenes are always purely by coincidence like wardrobe malfunctions or falling over
What's the reason for this? The bland protagonist being coveted by sexy bitches is obvious, but what's the reason for nothing happening? One would assume self-inserters would want some action.

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The moment MC has sex the self inserters can no longer relate to him
Also, once MC has had sex there’s no reason keep reading/watching as there’s no goal anymore

You watch those for cute girls not romance drama

Then have no drama and still at least have the hold hands.
Doesn't explain why there isn't so much as hand holding.
And they can relate to 50 hot bitches lusting after them anyway? I thought it was supposed to be escapism.

Was there ever a series that did it the other way around? Two characters casually having sex with each other like friends with benefits but later slowly fall in love? This sounds way more interesting to me than sex being the endgoal.

>Also, once MC has had sex there’s no reason keep reading/watching as there’s no goal anymore
So find a new goal.

It’s not just about MC/authors goal, but also the desperate virgin reader’s

Very common in teens' love titles.
Try:
>The Artist and the Beast
>Hitodumato JK
>About everything written by Naoko Kodama, often a relationship never even forms
>Namete, Kazitte, Tokidoki Medete
>About everything by Ai Hibiki
>Half of the shit written by Kayoru
>About everything written by Masahiro Itosugi

I think the issue is that true love is incredibly boring to anyone who is not actually in love. It's the chase that's exciting, not the prize.
If you want to see a romance series which keeps things interesting, go check out a Korean pornwha. You know, the really spicy kinds with swinging, multiple sluts, and NTR. That might not be to everyone's taste, but it's an example of how a manga with sexy scenes might work.

For instance, in - I dunno - 'Silent War', the girls have fucked the protagonist, the antagonist, and whored themselves out to multiple men for money. The story is still a fucking psychological tour de force. But at the same time, I feel that it sort of ruins the prize if a girl has taken about fifteen different cocks.

Man you seem to an expert on this. But thank you!

It also ruins it when they look like plastic.

I hate this so much. Sakurasou could have been o good without this trope.
When Masiro actually crawled into bed with Sorata and he for no reason just walked out of the room it was so frustrating. It would have been so good if he just wrapped an arm around him and they fell asleep cuddling.
I read Bakemono Club recently and it had a scene where something similar happened except there the receiving character did not totally freak out and walk away and this was actually someone who disliked the aggressor at that point but half asleep felt like “Mehh, his honestly doesn't feel bad” and accepted it and it was so cute.

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>why is romance anime a cocktease

This is the format for all romance serials that are not porn. It's not exclusively a Japanese thing. A lot of western romance is literally just erotica for women, so you may be getting the two confused.

As mentioned here:
There's a format for this stuff. If you want to see a good lampooning of it, check out "When Aliens Attack" from the first season of Futurama. tl;dr The cast has to write a romance show from the late 90s, and fucks it all up by actually having the romance pay off, the whole audience just wanted to be cockteased. This trope is so beat into the ground that American "Comedy" cartoons were already mocking it 20 years ago.

But here is no chase either because nothing is happening. 120 chapters in and they never even held hands.

Well, how about I give you an example? In Sword Art Online, Kirito hooks up with Asuna early on. Being a nice guy, he's in love with Asuna, and makes it really clear. They've also fucked before.
After that? There's no romantic tension whatsoever. Their relationship is perfect, and Kirito is never tempted to cheat on Asuna. So there's nothing else going on over there.
If you mean a series where the protagonist simply fucks all the hot girls without any actual commitment to them, that's rarer. But it's human nature for drama to emerge from that. (The otherwise rather silly 'Uwakoi' has the protagonist fuck basically everyone.)
I guess we're simply wired to see sex as a serious commitment. A guy fucks a woman, there's a bond there, even if neither wants to acknowledge it. A guy who goes around fucking pliant women without commitment to any of them is kind of a prick.

I know many titles that have no on-screen sex scenes whatoever and don't do this, typically the ones with proagonists that are actual characters instead of obvious self-inserts.

Maybe you shouldn't watch things that you clearly hate. How about that?

...What is Silent War even about?

A weak-willed boy with a knack for sports betting falls under the sway of a manly bully, Gunnar, and his gang of thugs. Gunnar is a man's man, he fucks any woman he wants, beats up any guy he doesn't like, and is basically an unstoppable force. He lives like he's heard of 'morality' by rumor, but never actually met it in person.
Gunnar has a really hot girlfriend the protagonist had a crush on, before she started fucking Gunnar. She hangs around this apartment which is slowly being turned into a brothel, staffed by other hot girls (At least three) who fall under Gunnar's sway.
After the protagonist is almost murdered by Gunnar for losing a huge sum of money, he reinvents himself as a muscular K-pop Chad and plans to take revenge on the big, bad bully. Mostly by hanging around him and subtly undermining him.

Here's the thing though, it's two different columns, which is why I recommended that futurama episode. In the episode, Fry has to write an episode of "Single Female Lawyer" which is a parody of an awful 90s romance drama called Ally McBeal that was on fox at the same time as futurama. Fry, as a consumer of porn and media featuring sex scenes, misunderstands the audience and thinks they want the characters to hook up, fuck, and get married and live happily ever after. But the audiences of shows like this don't want that, that's a different audiences. The audience of these shows are boring people who romanticize "chemistry" between characters more than actual relationships. The potential of a relationship is the draw. The tension, paying off the relationship ruins the tension.

I personally hate this shit and seek out the kind of stories you describe, and think even some porn is a more realistic display of romance than some of these shows, but I figured you deserved context.

its korean cringe shit, I dont even know it but its definitly about weak beta guy who changed into based chad who fucks bitches. All of them are like this

This sounds like it was written for cucks and literal subhumans

now you're getting it
It's notable in that it ends with the protagonist telling the main girl that he doesn't love her any more (after she stops him from drowning Gunnar.) He goes home to have a three-way with his pliant secretaries. Also Gunnar becomes the world's greatest MMA fighter.

Koreans confirmed cucks. If your manly men story involves dudes manipulating one another instead of just fighting in the first place, they aren't very manly dudes. This synopsis reads like the plot of one of the Yakuza games, but every time something badass happens, they replaced it with emotional manbaby shit.