I'm only a little over halfway through the book (but obviously don't care about spoilers, which is why I'm here, laaa) and I was also wondering about the status of same-sex relationships and leaning towards the most serious concern with romantic entanglements involving Belles being procreative sex.
People don't seem particularly fussed about same-sex relationships in general (the queen and her lover, and doesn't the Fashion Minister openly say he's not into women, which is why it's totally non-scandalous for him to be alone with the Belles). There's also that scene where Ivy climbs into Camellia's bed For Secrecy, and whoever it is that discovers them chases her out because what if someone saw you! they might think you're having an incestuous relationship! But it seems like the incest would be the scandalous/gossip-worthy part, not the F/F implications. While a relationship with a boy got whatever past Belle they mentioned sent back to the Belle creche.
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Date: 2019-07-19 10:28 pm (UTC)People don't seem particularly fussed about same-sex relationships in general (the queen and her lover, and doesn't the Fashion Minister openly say he's not into women, which is why it's totally non-scandalous for him to be alone with the Belles). There's also that scene where Ivy climbs into Camellia's bed For Secrecy, and whoever it is that discovers them chases her out because what if someone saw you! they might think you're having an incestuous relationship! But it seems like the incest would be the scandalous/gossip-worthy part, not the F/F implications. While a relationship with a boy got whatever past Belle they mentioned sent back to the Belle creche.