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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2157500" data-attributes="member: 9254">I'm fairly certain how well Cedric would be accepted IMC because the NPC paladin was very similar.  Being an ogre magi, he wasn't physically able to be a womanizer, but he had the zeal to enjoy what life offered.  The fact that he planned to challenge his culture's belief that the 'races of man' were not inept buffoons who should be treated as retarded children at best and semi-sentient animal slaves at worst meant he expected to be killed for his audacity and gave him the same quasi-cynical viewpoint as Cedric.I'm just amused at the number of people who immediately latch onto "prostitution bad."    While not a historian, prudishness is a fairly recent invention.  When the whole world was farmers, every child knew the birds and the bees by the age of 8.  Sex education, if it existed, was more about doing it well than doing it right.  Galahad was a rare example of purity within the Knights of the Round Table, paladins all, because he had a basically chaste lifestyle by choice.  As a Knight he could get all kinds of willing nookie and he passed it up.  That alone made him either a lunatic or a bastion of goodness.  In my DL game the paladins were the only ones with access to Cure Disease for centuries and they supported the prostitutes guild.  Willingly?  Not all.  But it was the best way to minimize the spread of STDs and plagues in general.  Guildmembers carried a token, that changed regularly, to indicate they were clean.  When each prostitute (be they male or female) came to the Paladin, they were not only checked for illness but the paladin ensured they were there of their own choice.  They acted as confessors to the prostitues and were generally trusted due to their oath.  The fact that the KoS then had a *massive* information gathering network at the street level was not lost on most nobles.</blockquote>

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