For years, I lived with a secret. Not a secret of betrayal or crime, but a secret of the id—specifically, the niche, confusing, and often stigmatized world of (often abbreviated as NTS). For the uninitiated, Netorase is a subgenre of erotic fantasy where a person derives emotional or sexual arousal from their partner having sexual experiences with others, with the crucial distinction that consent and emotional transparency are the bedrock. Unlike Netorare (where the partner is "stolen" without consent), Netorase is a shared journey. It is a kink rooted not in humiliation, but in compersion—the joy of watching your loved one experience pleasure, often with a voyeuristic or emotionally masochistic edge.