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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Argall" data-source="post: 188708" data-attributes="member: 4481">misc pointsThe attitude towards sex will vary more within classes than between classes.  [We might except the paladin, but that is because he is limited to one alignment.  Compared to other LGs, he too likely should vary more between paladins than between classes.]  In particular it will vary more between the sexes than between classes.    Game principles require that if you want her, she is going to say NO, at least until you go to way too much work.  No matter how much you try to persuade her there is a much easier way to protect her from the virgin-eating dragon, she is going to insist you kill it.  Then she will consider the idea.    You get the reward after you finish the adventure, not before.     Do not assume there is any form of birth control available in a game.     a-We are modeling societies that had distinctly limited abilities to limit birth, which means the default is that females can't easily prevent pregnancy.    b-As several female posters have complained, a number of male DMs are downright eager to knock up female PC.      c-Unplanned pregnancy has great story potential.    So there is a name for female PC who just assume there is birth control.  They are called mothers.     "Estrus animals go into heat. When in heat the female feels an uncontrollable urge to mate and emits pheromones letting nearby males know this. Menstrual animals are always in heat. They tend to develop complex social systems to control this; but unlike Estrus animals their females are nearly always in heat and 'emitting'. I believe that in 'the real world' only humans, apes, and some other primates are Menstrual, with the rest of nature being Estrus."    This is no more than casually correct.  Estrus females only sometimes emit pheromones.  Those where the female seeks out the male, a frequent case, don't bother.     Properly speaking, there are no menstrual animals.  The estrus cycle is reduced and not visible in some cases such as humans, but the interest in sex still varies over the cycle.     The relationship between always receptive females and complex social systems is speculative, but likely the reverse.  The complex social system causes the female to be constantly receptive.  [In many species the male kills children of other males.  By having sex with several males, the female confuses paternity and thus may be able to protect her child.]     Most apes should not be classified as menstrual.  The gorilla uses a system little different from the horse.  The bonobo has a very visible extrus, but has sex all the time.</blockquote>

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