If people want to play sex workers on a game, and it’s allowable (it’s not on a lot of games) and there’s a place that it can be done so that people seeking to RP in that environment (which doesn’t need to involve explicit TS, or at all, honestly) can go to place where they know it is a welcome area of RP, it’s hard for me to understand why people have a problem with that. Or point it out as some sort of indicator of horrible stuff. Or even the idea that RP that’s allowable could be used to generate IC credits. I wonder, is it also gross to pay a smuggler or mercenary to do their jobs as part of RP too? Or just those icky whores.
If you don’t feel comfortable with that sort of RP existing at all on a place you play, then I 100 percent support that, but then you need to go to a place that has that as a banned category. It won’t be perfect because people always want to get around rules, but if you report it if the staff is serious then they’ll keep an eye on it or remove the PC (I’ve seen that happen on games that don’t allow prostitution or references to prostitution in play).
I understand the discomfort. And I’m sure maybe people are going to feel like this is “square shaming” or whatever we’re calling it these days, but like…I dunno. It’s just tireseome, when something is an allowable thing to play (regardless of what it is, sexy or not) to have people act like the players who choose to play that allowable thing are less than or abusing a system. They’re not. And if you don’t like that RP anyway you’re not missing out by not partaking and neither are they, so it seems like that should be an everyone wins.
But I still wouldn’t play on a game ESPECIALLY in that area, with staff who are incapable of taking harassment seriously. I can understand why others might make different choices, if they felt that was the one place that was open to that sphere of play. It’s no worse a motivator than someone who stays and plays on a shitshow of a WoD mush beause it’s the only one that offers the sphere they like. But neglectful staff is just not something I’m interested in as a player anymore. Even if Cujo and Company screamed from the rooftops that sexual RP was not something that they even wanted to see on their game, it still wouldn’t change the problems and concerns I would have over the behaviors involved. Harassing creeps go on all sorts of games. Outlawing certain kinds of sexual theme RP does not deter people from pressing people for sexual or relationship RP that they don’t want. That will happen on every game, I’m convinced. When staff shows you that they don’t really give a shit about ooc boundary crossing, believe 'em. That’s a big problem, and no matter what content it involved, I would want to walk.