>>6248439In rpgs, most entertainment there is a bifurcation: the commercial imperative of NO SEX, to attempt to achieve revenue maximisation / appeal to a wide audience, international market, accommodating all clashing cultural sensibilities, moral attitudes of convention, propriety / taboo reproach is just impossible, so just amputate the sex altogether; AAA videogames, modern Hollywood massive budget studio tentpole production do this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentpole>...a program or film that supports the financial performance of a film studio, television network, or cinema chain. It is an analogy for the way a strong central pole provides a stable structure to a tent. A tent-pole film may be expected to support the sale of tie-in merchandise...so-named because the resultant unsuppressible sky-piercing veined vertical erection aroused by the simultaneous infusion of hundreds of millions of marketing dollars conjoined with an interdiction against any sexual expression whatsoever, so forbidden, very naughty. AI LLMs ChatGPT will be like this. X cards, lines and veils fetishistic safeguarding inhibitions of modern rpgs also a backfired manifestation of this
But if you try and include THE SEX you encounter THE CRINGE, an excruciating economic conundrum the lack of THE DOUBLE COINCIDENCE OF WANTS the improbability of alignment between author and audience fictional sex desires. I like bdsm but not really into the dragon sex, some want dwarf or goblin impregnation, another wants to crawl back inside the womb, be tenderly trampled upon by mecha war robots or intimately probed by spaceship lasers it is very difficult to fictionally transact in this inefficient suboptimal neanderthal sex barter. Maybe you need a tyrant overlord to establish a cruel and merciless regime of sex propriety, dictate what is morally permissible and impermissible like Hammurabi, castigate / banish / torture the deviants, issue fiat sovereign transactional SEX CURRENCY to facilitate the trading of imagination and future desire, then ipo the sex corporations on a stock exchange, this must be what Freud imagined when he wrote Civilisation And Its Discontents. Of course before such a FREE MARKET regime can be established you probably need a war to kill everyone who dissents, yay
So this weird paradox between commercial imperatives to create markets that facilitate efficient expression, transaction and fulfilment of human desire, against the nature of markets which act to extinguish those desires (making humans homogeneous, efficiently replaceable interchangeable programmable sex-amputated eunuch drudgery clones etc). This sex-death cycle Schumpeterian Creation/Destruction, I don't know where the equilibrium on this continuum resides, I feel it veers inevitably and inexorably towards THE PIT OF NO SEX THE CHASM Of DOOM it probably looks like a more grimdark version of the picture the anon uploaded here
>>6248284>demographically the only sex is African now 