Crazymon:
However, it’s hilarious to me that the main argument most people have for their anti-ERP grandstanding are these hypothetical minors who must not be traumatised, while the main motivation for their moral outrage is something completely different.
It’s not that all for me, personally. I will quote Akamito on one of the best posts ever made on this forum, because it is a deeply damning and at the same time eye-opening post that really answers all there is to the issue of ERP in the game.
So I’m going to put myself out here; I’m 30 now and have been in the RP scene since I was around 15 years old. I’ve been a young, impressionable and horny teenage boy and with enough motivating factors it’s real easy to get pulled into ERP, whether you intend to go in that direction or not.
Over time I engaged in it as an extension of my otherwise normal (if super edgy at times) RP in WoW and other games in the early years, and it took longer than I’d like for the shame and disgust to set in wi…
I suggest you give it a read.