User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 508: Pleasure and Agony, Review./@comment-4829046-20161101064607/@comment-24039234-20161101125728

"I expect for it to be handled more maturely"

And there's your problem. :) Fairy Tail is not that series. It never was, even in its best days. Fairy Tail in its best days was a heartwarming, fun action shounen with a diverse set of detailed background characters. A series like this should never handle topics like these. Some mature series like GitS:SAC? Sure. But not a shounen.

I can name only two shounen I've seen that could come close to touching things you talk about (granted, I'm not that experienced - I try to go for quality, rather than quantity ;) ): FMA, and recently, Magi. FMA, especially the older one passes with flying colors. Sexuality is not one of its themes, but it handles every other topic it touches with exemplary sensitiveness. Magi is not that sensitive, it tries to go in the right direction, and as far as the "named" characters go, it plays its cards well (the mage leader in the second season was especially great). However, in the background the people work as a neat automatism to illustrate the oversimplified inner workings of the proverbial "masses", and a lot of issues are swept under the rug in favor of a cleaner presentation. But all in all, I see Magi's author being good enough for something like this, if she ever decided to "write in this direction".

Okay, I went on a slight tangent with FMA and Magi, which was not my intention. :) TL;DR: Mature handling of torture, or sexuality in a shounen? Nope, won't happen.