How are my offenders suppose to eat?
Liz:
So your point, blackninja, is that it's not acceptable for adults to flirt with minors? Then why did you call it "unrealistical" for a sim to be labeled a pedo for doing so? And why did you say (I think, anyway - your sentence was a bit hard to understand) that only in extreme cases would people find anything wrong with it?
We know perfectly well that it happens all the time in real life. Was that the entire point of all your ill-conceived examples? To show that it happens? Dude, we know it does. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Are you trying to say that more RL people should be labeled pedos for all this inappropriate flirting they're doing? If so, why all the talk about how not a big deal it is? You say you can clearly represent yourself, but you seem to be having trouble doing just that.
Anonym:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 October 22, 14:36:05
Quote from: Anonym on 2009 October 22, 06:20:36
The game recognizes "compliment personality" as flirting. So if I, a straight YA male, told a 16 year old girl, "You are one of the most fun people I've ever talked to! You're smart, personable, and have a great sense of humor! I'd love to spend more time with you!" then I'd be labeled a pedo?
HELL YES. Just the fact that you INITIATED CONTACT with a *12* outside of a professional context is CREEPY.
Well, (a) I didn't; that was hypothetical, (b) At my current age, it might be creepy with a 16 year old, but it wouldn't be at 18 or 20 or 22, and at around 20 I knew a girl who was 16 who was pretty important to me (although we never did anything sexual), and if you look at the article I linked it isn't abnormal. I think it's kind of nutty to take the "12" definition into real life (even more so than applying it in TS3 to teens that look 16ish).
I will say, though, that to the extent I can be aroused by a group of pixels, I can just as easily be aroused by TS3 teens I create as TS3 YA's I create, and anyone who claims they are aroused by some TS3 adults but never by TS3 teens, I don't believe. I'd believe someone who said they weren't ever at all aroused by a TS3 character as they're cartoons, but not by someone who said they were aroused by TS3 YA's but not TS3 teens.
Mootilda:
Quote from: Anonym on 2009 October 22, 18:54:14
I will say, though, that to the extent I can be aroused by a group of pixels, I can just as easily be aroused by TS3 teens I create as TS3 YA's I create, and anyone who claims they are aroused by some TS3 adults but never by TS3 teens, I don't believe. I'd believe someone who said they weren't ever at all aroused by a TS3 character as they're cartoons, but not by someone who said they were aroused by TS3 YA's but not TS3 teens.
I think that it's time for AwesomeMod to give Anonym the pedobear trait.
Anonym:
Quote from: Mootilda on 2009 October 22, 19:00:04
Quote from: Anonym on 2009 October 22, 18:54:14
I will say, though, that to the extent I can be aroused by a group of pixels, I can just as easily be aroused by TS3 teens I create as TS3 YA's I create, and anyone who claims they are aroused by some TS3 adults but never by TS3 teens, I don't believe. I'd believe someone who said they weren't ever at all aroused by a TS3 character as they're cartoons, but not by someone who said they were aroused by TS3 YA's but not TS3 teens.
I think that it's time for AwesomeMod to give Anonym the pedobear trait.
"Because most late adolescents have physical characteristics near (or in other cases, identical) to that of full-grown adults, some level of sexual attraction to persons in the age group is common among adults of all sexual orientations." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia)
So, if you're telling me that you can be turned on by TS3 pixels but only the ones that look 20+ and never the ones that look 16, I don't believe you. Pedos would aroused by "child" models, something we'd likely both find sick and creepy, and that's why they are seen in the way they are.
Tingeling:
I must be blind. I don't see anything in Mootilda's post that indicates him/her being attracted to pixels. Why are you assuming that everyone else must be?
And even if the physical body of a teen is similar to a young adults, the brain isn't done cooking yet, so to speak. That means they're full of hormones and not thinking straight (not all of them, mind you) plus not having a fully functional frontal lobe to logically interpret situations with makes some girls and boys prone to get into difficult situations, such as letting themselves being lured into a relationship with an older partner that is not necessarily good for them.
Again, why are you trying so hard? It is a bunch of pixels. If you get off to that, then fine. I still think TS3 teens look like 12's, no matter how hard I squint at them. In the real world there are people who are only attracted to older women. Are they lying about that too, since it is not within your scope of imagination that a player be attracted to a certain age group within the game?
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