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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kipling" data-source="post: 1464210" data-attributes="member: 14955">Well, pr0n in the sense of something verboten is only a few hundred years old in our world; censorship laws only came about in what, the 18th century?There are a number of examples of the, erm, earthier nature of earlier eras. The oft-cited example for games of French peasantry (laughing at the arousal of children, to put it as obliquely as I can) may have been anti-French propaganda, but it points out that when the whole family sleeps together in one bed, everybody knows what goes on.For it to be pr0n, I suspect you have to have censorship. Lewd or explicit, yes, certainly, you can have that without censorship--certain temples in India, for example, or the works of Ovid, or some of the Greeks, or the Song of Solomon in the old Testament. But the definition of pr0n pretty much calls for censorship.Now, what would be lewd or explicit? As others have said, I think it depends strongly on the creatures. You can do this with rational biological explanation, as others have, or by looking at their symbolic place in your fantasy world. Demons and torture, for example. Would they find it arousing? Maybe not from a biological standpoint--I don't recall how they breed--but it is appropriate symbolically, and it might do well for giving your players the feeling of that monster.</blockquote>