Despite what has been said in the comments above, if you remove the sex from the story it wouldn't be good. There wouldn't even be a story. However, that doesn't devalue the weight of the narrative, nor it's power. Some may believe a good story of this nature is only good because of what happens around the sex, but it's not. It's about the meaning within. Sex is something integral to life and growing up, and to say it can be removed with no ill effects to this story is absurd. When the sex has emotional depth and meaning, when it changes a character in such a way as it did, I cannot imagine the story without it. He was taken advantage of as a child, and he submitted. To her, it was just something fun to do. To him it became something more. He had to watch her abandon him not once but twice. Even when he tries to move on he's still trapped in the dream, in his submission, because she was his first, but he was only her toy. A story worth less without the sex, and more with it. Deep stuff
Open your heart a feel the art. Let porn mean something more