Quote from: Gwarh;875749I'll take Slavery, Murder, Gore, Blood, Beading, Demonic Possession, Animal  Sacrifice, Human Sacrifice in spades over a single rape or sex scene being acted out at the game table.

What do you have against cold-connection jewelry making? :huhsign:

If you don't want a peyote-stitch, seed bead, handbag fob, fine. But don't go presenting my jewelry color sense as a crime against humanity.

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I'll take Slavery, Murder, Gore, Blood, Beading, Demonic Possession, Animal  Sacrifice, Human Sacrifice in spades over a single rape or sex scene...

Excluding rape this seems to sum the attitudes of a significant portion of the American public.

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I'll take Slavery, Murder, Gore, Blood, Beading, Demonic Possession, Animal  Sacrifice, Human Sacrifice in spades over a single rape or sex scene being acted out at the game table.

I'm not a big fan of playing Villain characters either so that probably has allot to do with it.

First, these are your preferences, you're presenting them as such, and I can only say "great that you know what you want, have fun with it!"

Second, what does beading mean, here:)?

And third, did you intend to imply that only villain characters have sex scenes, or was it an Unfortunate Implication of putting the villains next to the list of two things you'd rather not have to deal with;)?

Quote from: AsenRG;875863Second, what does beading mean, here:)?

Probably beheading, the removal of someone's head.

Quote from: Gwarh;875749I'll take Slavery, Murder, Gore, Blood, Beading, Demonic Possession, Animal  Sacrifice, Human Sacrifice in spades over a single rape or sex scene being acted out at the game table.

What about a sex scene involving Slavery, Murder, Gore, Blood, Beading, Demonic Possession, Animal  Sacrifice or Human Sacrifice? Are you now conflicted?

Quote from: soltakss;875885Probably beheading, the removal of someone's head.

Thanks. I'm not a native English speaker and sometimes I'm afraid I ask such questions because of that, even if they're obvious to you all...

My comments to Gwarh still stands, as does my question;).

Quote from: soltakss;875885Probably beheading, the removal of someone's head.

No I was referring to anal beads... ;-)

Yes it was a type-o. I meant Beheading.

Quote from: soltakss;875885Probably beheading, the removal of someone's head.

I thought he meant "beating" though I kind of like the notion that someone really, just can't stand "beading."

I can kind of understand that. When the string breaks (and one day the string will break) those damn beads go everywhere. And you never can find them all.

Quote from: soltakss;875885Probably beheading, the removal of someone's head.

I thought "beating" but beheading makes more sense in context.

Quote from: AsenRG;875863And third, did you intend to imply that only villain characters have sex scenes, or was it an Unfortunate Implication of putting the villains next to the list of two things you'd rather not have to deal with;)?

No that was not my intention. That is I did not intend to imply only Villains get to have sex scenes. It was just a proximity/formatting thing.

I'm totally fine dealing with evil Villains, but role-playing a graphic and in-depth  torture scene creeps to close to sadism imo. I much prefer the vs. the more cartoonish "put him on the rack!" sort of goreless torture. Again it's due to the sadism connotations of the Former vs the Latter. To me it's like the "Saw' movies. For my taste it's just torture porn which I find distasteful and repellent.

I like Supernatural Horror far more than Serial Killer Torture Horror. But that's my tastes not what is right or wrong as another commenter said.

Here's another thought about erotic content in gaming: are women more into it? My last campaign had an all male table, and there was no mention of sex or erotic content on behalf of any of the players, either in set up or in play, despite there being opportunities. The game started in a villainous cut throat dive where there were exotic dancers on stage. Characters ignored them except as background. Later, they were in a clothing-light native village and after impressing the locals in various ways there was a feast during which it was implied that some of the tribeswomen would be rather free with their favours, and there was no interest in actually playing any of that out apart from to mention that one of the characters, who spoke the language and had critted his rolls for interaction and participating in a dancing ritual had woken up in the arms of two of the locals. Again, totally glossed over.
Contrast that with the set up for a new campaign. Here we had four female players and one male. Notably, all four of the women are pretty new to RPGs, so don't have preconceptions about how it's supposed to go. We were playing Beyond the Wall, admittedly, which is heavy on establishing grounded characters with relationships with each other and NPCs in their home village. Here we had several mentions of sex and relationships during character generation (which is very interactive and rather great in that game) including one character who was established as being in a lesbian love triangle, and another whose Entertainer background manifested itself as performing bawdy erotic puppet shows! And this was before we even started playing!

Note that I'm not talking about playing out sex scenes on camera. I'm not sure they wanted to go that far. But it's interesting to me that women who were RPG newbies were interested in bringing sex and love into the game from the start. Funnily enough, the one male player's character was completely asexual. Or, as some would call it, a regular D&D character ...

Quote from: markfitz;875940Here's another thought about erotic content in gaming: are women more into it?

Anecdotally, that seems to be the case according to most posters in these threads.

My own contributions to the body of anecdata:

• In college, I played WFRP1 with a woman whose characters would explicitly seek out sex once every (real time) month or two.  She also decided to try on the GM's seat for a while, during which a barmaid made a very determined attempt to seduce my elven charlatan.
• In the early 2000s, I played WFRP2 with a woman who immediately decided that she wanted her character to be a Camp Follower as her starting career and made it quite clear that, by "Camp Follower", she meant "Bed Warmer".  (I don't recall whether she charged for her services or not.  It never came up in actual play.)

Perhaps also relevant is that the first woman had been gaming for under a year at the time and the second was trying RPGs for the first time with that campaign, so both were, as in your example, essentially new players.  They may have had some preconceptions, though, as both were involved with (long-term dating and married to, respectively) active role-players.

As long as the sex never hijacks my ADVENTURE GAME turning it into an "erotic exploration of gender relations and issues" or amateur elf erotica contests, fine. But that wouldn't be "letting sex spoil the game," it would be "playing with assholes."

Quote from: markfitz;875940Here's another thought about erotic content in gaming: are women more into it?

Quote from: nDervish;876039Anecdotally, that seems to be the case according to most posters in these threads.

This really meshes up to my experiences and others game groups I've had experience with. Its another reason I roll my eyes so heavily at the white knighting the depicts women gamers as these fragile fainting flowers that will be driven screaming into the night as the slightest hint of sexuality.

Quote from: markfitz;875940Here's another thought about erotic content in gaming: are women more into it?

From experience. Yes. Surprisingly more than expected. For all the online bitching and decrying of "sexist!". At the table women can and will get into some of the raunchiest encounters given a chance. And if not given a chance they may go out and make said chance. Ive about never seen at the table any male players get into even a fourth of the crazy stuff the female ones have.

Id lay good odds though on others having the exact opposite experience.