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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6878313" data-attributes="member: 5143">And it's not my intention to blame anyone.  I wasn't there (well, I was likely at the convention, since I've gone every year for the last 20, but I wasn't in that room), so I don't know the circumstances of what happened.  I don't know her.  At least, I don't recognize her picture when someone showed it to me and I was told her name and don't recognize that either.  I'm just relating what I've heard from some of the people involved.  When I asked someone who is more involved in the planning of the convention, that's pretty much the answer they gave me.  I figured since it was being discussed, I'd pass it along.It's always been an...interesting convention.  The adult part of the convention wasn't intended that I can tell.  It was more of an accidental offshoot over the years.  It was a sci-fi/fantasy convention where an entire floor of the convention was taken up by "Con Suites".  From what I've been told this isn't a common feature at cons so some people may not have heard of it.  But basically, they are rooms in a theme like "pirate room" or "space balls room" where people can just sit down, relax, enjoy some food and drink and soak in the atmosphere while socializing with other people (and likely discussing your favor books or something).Since the beginning, the con suites have been very popular.  To the point where there is a group of people who come to the convention and don't actually attend any panels at all.  They hang out on the floor of con suites with their friends drinking and talking all weekend long.  This eventually grew into more and more racy "nighttime activities" that almost entirely took place in the con suites.  Since the con suites weren't officially put on by the convention(they are literally hotel rooms that people decorated and opened the door to so anyone can walk in), they were left to their own devices for a long time.  They were considered a private space run by the owners of the room.Eventually the convention had to consider them officially part of the con and everything that went with that.  But they still tried to keep their distance from meddling in them.  Still, there were some events planned that lasted a number of years that were probably horribly inappropriate that were overlooked because no one complained about them.  At least one that I'm aware of was officially disbanded by the con and the owners of the suite told to never do it again.But as more and more of the people who attended the con only do so to go to the con suites and hang out with their friends while drinking (and attend the party with a DJ on Saturday night), the con started getting some panels like the "fandom purity test" where everyone just takes a purity test to see who is the dirtiest so they can laugh about it afterward.  It's fairly common knowledge that a lot of people use the convention to meet people for sex.  I've heard quite a few people repeat "What happens at KeyCon stays at KeyCon" and I know at least one couple who is monogamous but they are allowed to cheat while at KeyCon.  I know that most people know that the term "private con" means the convention that continues in the hotel rooms that aren't part of the con.I've always felt a little bit uncomfortable at the convention while on the Con Suite floor.  I try to avoid going up there now, since it is an entirely different floor than the rest of the convention.  I hang out in the gaming room all weekend long where we barely notice the other convention happening, except a periodic train of really drunk people who do a conga line through the gaming room and leave.But there isn't enough notice about the adult stuff at the con.  I wasn't aware it existed for the first 3 years I went.  The convention likes to keep it very, very quiet.  Basically they stick with their "Some private stuff might happen late at night.  Just don't harass anyone or do anything that people don't consent to." policy.  It's only in the last couple of years that the "Fandom Purity Test" and "Adult Writing Advice" panels are listed on the schedule as events.  Before they just happened quietly in a room somewhere and word of mouth told people where they were.</blockquote>

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