From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Sex & the Single Shadowrunner(thanks)
Date:	Tue, 5 May 1998 14:05:35 -0600

Erik Jameson wrote:
/
/ >Over time most men either get used to it and learn to deal with their
/ >sexuality, or the testosterone level drops off and they don't care.
/ >I learned to deal with it :) Being married also adds to my level of
/ >security <shrug>.
/
/ Married? That explains a lot; you no longer have to prove your
/ masculinity.

Oh, I still have to prove my masculinity, just not to my friends :)

/ Sexuality, in a mature game, can be very potent. It can be a great plot
/ device; what started out as a bar pickup ended up as a marriage engagement
/ for a character of mine.
/
/ But here's the crux of the matter:
/
/ I think most people avoid it because it can quickly degenerate into
/ immaturity quickly. I mean, sex that had THAC0's for example. I had a
/ player recently that while a male, wanted to play a voluptous female that
/ would and could seduce nearly any man. There was a certain titilation for
/ this 18-yr old. Needless to say, neither the PC or the player lasted very
/ long in my game.

Yep. Been there, done that. And I actively tried to argue that it
shouldn't come down to a dice roll. And the funny thing was was that
the GM at the time who reduced it to a dice role was a female. Maybe
she felt that her own personal experiences came down to a dice role
<shrug>.

Anyway, you're right. Sex in RPGs can quickly degenerate.

/ And to be truthful, a role-played seduction doesn't go over very well also,
/ simply because a real seduction takes an extended amount of time, time that
/ could be better spent killing bad guys and making nuyen.

Flirting is a blast to roleplay, if the goal of the GM isn't to get
the PC laid, but to have a good time roleplaying.

There's one PC in my game that is rather innocent and honorable. And
I knew that. So he returns to his hotel room to find a naked woman
waiting in his bed, posed in a come hither manner. Instead of
jumping in he stops and asks her who she is and what she's doing in
his bed. Her answer is that she needed a place to stay and that he
looked nice so she picked the lock to his room. She's willing to
"pay" for a place to sleep for the night. He says she can sleep in
the bed for free and that he'll sleep on the couch, exits, and closes
the bedroom door behind him.

There aren't many men in the world (in her eyes) that would've turned
her down and treated her with respect. Now she's really attracted to
the character and will seek him out and try and seduce him. I expect
the character to respond by putting her off, since he's the type that
would only sleep with a woman he truely loves. It's going to be fun
:)

BTW, she was really waiting in his bed on the behalf of the major
vilian of the adventure to pump the PC for information in a James
Bond kind of way.

-David
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