@Misadventure said in Cyberrun:
@Ghost Misleading? Did you not watch Blade Runner? They are emotionally children. The memories are "cushions", the bodies artificial. They have restraint, true, but little maturity at all. The actress was 22? The players people are concerned about are very likely as old or older, so maybe not the best measurement?
That's (that they were emotionally children) up to interpretation. For starters, they didn't qualify as a human, nor did they qualify as children in the same sense as a born human from gestation to MaidenMotherCrone stage. Blade Runner wasn't about the mistreatment of children; it was about the creation of artificial beings who longed to be free. Their models were four years old, but they were not modeled (nor did they behave) as four year old children. They were not depicted as, played by, or designed to be sexualized children.
This is entirely a different subject and non-concept to human adults roleplaying as children for TS roleplay.
Age is a number. Yes. Maturity is subjective. Yes. There are, in existence, 16 year olds with more responsibility and rational thinking than their own parents.
I think a good question to ask here is: "Why is it so important to play a legal minor on a sex-based RP game, and not an immature legal adult; perhaps even a teen 18-19?"
I'll take the bold step here (trigger warning) and say that its important to remember that the so-called adrenaline kick from the crime of paedophilia has nothing to do with driving across the state line of "18" to thumb your nose at societal laws regarding age. No. It's about the focusing of sexual energy towards a figure perceived to be a child or child-like. It's ultimately about the sexualizing and violation of perceived innocence while being well aware that it is wrong.
So, even if a character is an 85 year old man in the shell of a 12 year old body, a sexual scene involving this configuration is providing an outlet for paedophilia on the part of the 85/12 year old, and roleplaying of a sex crime on the part of that character getting hot on the human-appearing shell of a 12 year old.
It's paedophilia. Role-playing this online and enjoying it doesn't not make one a paedophile just because they (allegedly) havent done it in real life. Paedophilia doesn't make exceptions between "fantasizing of" or "physically partaking in".
I think you're obscuring the overall point, but I think you're definitely driving in a specific direction. What exactly are you trying to play Devil's Advocate towards, here? That there is bias in play and that it's no big deal that adults would simulate sexualized children because there is a pre-existing precedent in film?
I'm currently discussing whether or not it's okay for people to roleplay fucking 12 year old appearing characters on online RPG spaces. Can someone explain to me A) why this is even being debated and B) help me justify the 5-10 minutes it took me to write this?
