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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet" data-source="post: 7126402" data-attributes="member: 6689161">That sounds horrible.  I am glad you were able to persevere in your hobby!  Good hobbies increase quality of life.  Sometimes they are what make life great.However, there is no way to escape emotionally messed up groups other than to leave them.  I do not think an admonition about avoiding triggering topics would stop such boorish behavior in those inclined to engage in it.  And frankly there is a ton of murder pillage and everything else in a typical campaign (every one I have ever seen).  People either know how to be sensitive and avoid going too far or they do not.  If someone wants to RP sex and sadism to a great extent, I am bowing out.  Although damn, we have had campaigns start when we came upon a town that had been impaled!  Horrible!  We use it to fuel our righteous anger, of course.So using proper terminology may seem vitally important to some but I do not think it would do anything to curb insensitive behavior.  Splitting hairs about medical terminology which changes over time suggests a luxury of time I surely do not have when it simply does not come up in games. And if I am constantly confronting gender/sex conflicts on a regular basis I will know I am in the wrong game.  I have people to save, monsters and evil priests to defeat etc.</blockquote>