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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 3763067" data-attributes="member: 49613">I personally find some of the stuff in this thread troubling... but I'd like to ask a question which I'm going to try to put as delicately as possible.  I'm going to try to frame the question in such a way that people can respond in the negative without having to flameout or get Modded.To what extent do people tie sexual behavior to alignment?  I ask because I see lots of discussion of brothels and other sexual behavior which according to some bodies of moral teaching (for example Christianity or Natural Law Theory) are not compatible with what we'd call in D&D terms "Good alignment".It appears that many folks are inclined to say that sexual behavior is morally neutral unless it is outright violent (that is, the behavior is forced upon an unwilling recipient).  It occurs to me that one might classify this as a "liberal" or perhaps "late/post modern" view of sexual activity.  In some cultures relevant to fantasy gaming, such as medieval Europe or the ancient Hebrews, sexual activity was considered to be very closely tied with a person's moral status, and in fact some bodies of moral teaching to this very day (such as the inheritors of those named examples) still consider one's moral status as greatly impacted by choices in sexual behavior.If I might press it a bit further, perhaps in many campaigns one might go so far as to say that attitudes about sexuality are "anachronistically liberal".  I'm not offering that as a criticism, only pointing it out in the vein of making something that may or may not be a conscious campaign design choice evident (and explaining what's behind my question "to what extent do you tie sexual behavior to alignment?").</blockquote>

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