Hello, I'm sorry you've been having problems with the game. That's definitely a bug. And one I've never encountered nor heard about before so In order to figure out what's going on, let me ask a couple of questions.
Does Chloe's dialogue before the game takes you to the spicy scene not trigger at all? Did you do anything before the meter stops progressing? Like using items, the pause button etc. Did it happen when Chloe's talking, or no? Since you started playing at version 0.1, it might be an issue with the save file or something. I'll see if I can replicate the bug by making a save on version 0.1 and then playing the latest version.
Also, if you don't mind, I'd really appreciate it if you can join my discord server and let me have a look at your save file by sending it to me if you're playing on the pc version. It'd be easier to fix the bug that way.
Thank you.