I mean, "VR not being real" is very different in Suguhas case, for her it's just a tool she uses to her own benefit, she's fully aware what and why she's doing it. In her case it's true, it's not real prostitution. Asuna on the other side got manipulated to this, which directly pushes her more towards Inoda.I mean, to be fair, Liz is basically being set up like that but just way worse, because she's gonna end up completely reversed under INODA and with no agency at all after betraying her friends for her own selfishness XD If anything, SUGUHA is the one with the most 'interesting' plot in that aspect, reminder that she full-on reversed her own impossible-to-escape-NTR-cliche-situation, and she's actually used the brothel thing to fully escape Hebishima's clutches (Plus while it's still working under the dumb-logic of Fujino's universe that "doing these things in VR don't count unlike IRL", it was basically stated she both picked her clients and never went beyond minor service somehow, lol). Liz is just trying and failing to be an evil mastermind while flip-flopping between being a 'friend' and a jealous bitch willing to help an ugly bastard steal her best friend just so she can in turns steal her boyfriend, and the only reason neither Kirito nor Asuna have realized is because Fujino has cut their IQ to less than a tenth of what they would usually be XP