I actually have no idea if it was intentional or not. If it is, it paints a very unflattering image of the author since we are clearly supposed to sympathise with Legosi as he is our main narrative focus. (and again, the whole “She was asking for it” thing just rubs me the wrong way.)
If it’s NOT intentional and just the author not thinking his implications through then that means the author is at least not trying to push a narrative about a nice guy trying not to rape a girl, but is instead really really sloppy with his writing. I think it’s safe to say the author himself is a furry, and it may be he’s getting the “animal society” themes of his animal characters confused with his sexual attraction to said characters and the two things are getting crossed in a very unflattering way because the author lacks insight into his narrative themes. He wants a story about a carnivore and herbivore society and how those two types of animals would clash with each other, but he also wants to draw sexy rabbits and wolves, but he also wants the conflicting society concentrated on his two main characters as two lovers from different sides of a conflict, but he also wants to draw both of them being sexy both separate and apart from each other. And he lacks the insight or writing ability to realise how these themes overlapping has created a REALLY bad meta narrative. Especially with our main POV and character we’re supposed to sympathise with being the male carnivore.
Honestly it’s most likely the second one. Terrible implications have been written by accident so often I wouldn’t be surprised. Author probably just wanted to draw sexy furries but wanted cool world building and a complex love story at the same time and didn’t think it through.
