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The New Paradigm of love themes in novels appeared in Japan, in the 1880s having been influenced by the Christianity and Western Literature. It classified love into three levels. The highest level is Platonic Love. On the contrary, Sexual Love was said to be the lowest by writers who were influenced by them. Due to that fact, some women who did love with only the appetite for sex without the platonic something were described as queer married women or widows
without virginity. They were not an ideal type of love in the New Paradigm. Therefore, a schoolgirl was the new heroine who came out in the Japanese novels of the 1890s. But, there were some gaps between the real world and the ideal world. For that reason, there were many more women who regreted that situation after having sex with their lover than some women who achieved their true, ideal love. (They haven't regreted their behavior until they knew about the
New Paradigm.) You can find the former characters through Yoshiko of [The Sheet], Sigeru of [The Adolescency] and the latter is found with Umeko of [The pilar of fire]. Then some heroine who accepted their appetite for sex appeared in 1910s. But there were some differences. There were some women as Yoko [A Certain Women] who felt a desolate aspect and the others were women like Naomi [A love story of Naomi] who desired just sex without any considerations
about Sexual Love. In other words, Naomi was a character who reminded us of sexual love against Platonic love of the new paradigm in early modern time. MisimaYukio, YisiharaSintaro who were created by Showa handed down another paradigm: sexual love was not the lowest level.