Mortze wrote:People, people,
We must set some things clear here. About incest.
There is a HUGE difference between a father who molestes his 8-year daughter and a 18-year brother and 16-year sister who are going the Lannister way.
The main focus here is informed consent. A child isn't aware of what an adult might do to him, or at least not fully conscient of the implications and wrongs. That's why child molestation make us all sick (I trully hope).
But two young people, fully aware of their desires, and ok with it both of them, isn't so repugnant. Some might find it quite arousing.
While I do frown uppon vertical incest (father/daughter,grandpa/grand-daughter,uncle/niece), horizontal incest isn't as shocking, or not at all, IF both parties are consensual, and informed of what they are doing (8 year old aren't either totally consensual or informed because they don't have the mental capacity to fully understand the act, while 14 and above is another matter).
I do think that, setting this clear, incest might be less shocking than rape (even if you have to make the girl drunk to have "consensual" sex), orcs nailing elves, or girls with dongs, and I've seen a fair share of those one in lots of games.
Considering all this, I do prefer to follow an incest story involving brother/sister, cousins, that has love, emotions, understanding, mutual experimentation, trust, general positive feelings in the story than one where 2 adults just chat about non-sense in a bar and go have sex.
But all that said, let's respect everyone's sensibilities and moral values. This is Shark's site so it's up to him, and him only without further discussion, to set the limits on incest.
A lot of good points made. Like I said earlier, I personally don't have a problem with it and would look at rape in a worse light than incest to be honest. Shark has had some rape type situations in his game with girls being drunk and taken advantage of etc. So I'm not sure why he'd be against incest.
On the other hand I completely understand that this is his forum with his rules and while I might not agree, I 100% respect his rules on this forum. If I do end up having incest situations in the game down the road, I'll delete any links or pictures to anything promoting the game.