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Old 07-09-2005, 10:04 PM
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Re: No flamewars yet...

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Originally Posted by jcfiala
I haven't much cared about the homosexuality issue in Blue Rose (It doesn't offend me, but I'm not planning to use Blue Rose anyway.) But I liked your two points on it, both the problem with support in old age and pointing out how Transhuman Space has available character bodies that are overtly sexual.

I wonder if science fiction roleplaying, as a genre, is more accepting of odd sexualities, or if it's just that there aren't many GURPS players around here?
I don't think it's so much that. My guess is that it has more to do with the difference between a given sexuality being <u>part</u> of a given setting and a given sexuality seeming (rightly or wrongly) to be <u>advocated</u> by the game itself. It's the difference between, say, Dogs in the Vineyard having polygamy exist within the setting and Dogs in the Vineyard seeming to advocate such a lifestyle IRL.
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