At that point I would pay for him to stay in a hotel. It's not fair, but having to let him stay in your house because of family pressure isn't fair either. So either tell them flat out no, or pay for a nights stay in a hotel.

But obviously you know the situation best.

My reading goal is to find the next book I enjoy so much, that I can't help myself but read it.

In general with my experience of reading fantasy, I do feel like SA might be more common in the genre as well. Maybe because they are often set in medievelish settings, and it's at least a trope that women had to be careful of traveling alone and so on. Saving the damsel/princess in distress is a trope. The evil king that takes what he wants.

If I am thinking about the longer classics, it's almost guaranteed that it has a scene like that. Wheel of time definitly, GoT obviously, Eragon yep, Sword of truth half the pages, Malazan all day and worse, Lord of the rings... nothing comes directly to mind... Name of the wind yes.

But I don't have a problem with any of them. You might have, because they vary in their depictions. I don't read them with the mindset of analyzing that, so I am not sure, but I would guess GoT, Malazan and Sword of truth are definitly not for you :D