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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6503467" data-attributes="member: 27160">I think we may be in agreement that exploration of the experience, much less the sensations of attraction and sexual encounters cannot be the theme of play if that play is not to become simply a means of self gratification or something way more personal than the term "game" usually represents. That is why the mechanics and attributes come in; it is somewhat akin to realistic combat. Some folk like to explore a sort of wierd "glorious bashing" surrogate for fighting that is anything but realistic, but generally all that is required of game combat is the outcome - the story, rather than the experience (which is what I mean is sought when I say "exploration" is the theme of play). After all, the experience of getting a ruptured spleen is one that few people genuinely want to explore... in the same way, sexual experience is best explored outside the RPG context, as I see it.Nevertheless, the exploration of how attraction and sexual congress affect other interactions - business, politics or just everyday life, "soap opera" style - is a common topic of examination in diverse media and could, I think, work well in RPGs if the supporting systems to "abstract" the erotic bit were sufficiently strong.As you say, though, somewhat off topic. To answer the original question, though, nudity as such wouldn't bother me at all, but then I don't have young kids. North America seems to be way more sensitive about nudity than folk I meet over here in Europe, but even that I suspect might be heavily related to proximity to the "religious right" (in geographical, not just political terms, that is).</blockquote>

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