E-Role Play, is this accepted or not?

[Teppie]

You've made over a 100 mil roleplaying with odd dudes? Can I get in on this?

Well, not me specifically just we have a lot of members and a lot of clients. More a result of sheer volume rather than anyone person striking ridiculous riches.

For us it's mostly more about having fun than the gil anyways.

Tell Deneb to give me a discount.

P sure I can make Deneb give you a discount.

[Kalsam]

This post is almost identical to one made by a self proclaimed "anime loli lover" on a forum I used to frequent, his justification to being attracted to little girls in anime was that they were a) fiction, and b) actually 18+ years of age. You can't possibly tell me that's reasonable, can you? That being said, Lalafells are no children, they're popotoes undoubtedly. I think a Hyur was a little too excited while being around a popoto and created Lalafell, the same with cats and Miqo'te, giraffes and Elezen, gorillas and Roes, damned dirty Hyurs.

That being said, people who dress Elin's in skimpy outfits make me gag as well. Lalafell too, but for different reasons.

Ok, I seriously laughed quite a bit at this. Specifically the Elezen. XD

[Atoli]

those whom play them are pedophiles, mothers with nothing better to do than play a character that looks like their children, unimaginative children, character made by parents for young children (kinda a theme, if you haven't noticed :P)

Not everyone is attracted to their character!xD Actually, I'm more amazed many guys seem to play female characters because that's what they are attracted to. I'd have to run around as a half-naked Highlander guy if that was the case, but the mere thought seems...weird o_O They are pixels, after all.
What's with the weird child-obsession anyway?! xD
Like, do lalas HAVE to be connected to children even if the pedo idea is gone? I never once thought of lalas (or their players, for that matter) as children. I thought of them as being little people like Hobbits and the like. I'm small in rl, I feel best represented as a small character ingame. It's actually disturbing and a bit hurtful what kind of thoughts people have about anyone who plays a lala. But hey, I got a lot of bullshit for playing a female dwarf in WoW so I guess I'm used to it..?xD
Thanks for answering anyway

Lala's definitely creep me out when people dress them up like whores.

I agree with this though. If you undress them/put them into revealing clothes their bodies are too childlike, especially paired with the very innocent emotes. Combining that with "sexy" just feels wrong, like corruption of something sweet and innocent ._.
It's like someone wrote pr0n fanfiction set in The Shire

[Iagainsti]

Red 'Shire Diaries

[Misutoraru]

Not everyone is attracted to their character!xD Actually, I'm more amazed many guys seem to play female characters because that's what they

lala arent children, i have no idea why ppl keep making a = between them
they are just amusing/comical shape/looking outside creature with a very evil inside
i really cant take lala seriously when i team up with one
i m not treating them as child, but their face with their body shape and the way their walk, the way they fight
i just cant stop laughing
and ya, even a lala with mustache wearing coliseum set or swimsuit, i dont found it sexy at all
a muscular Hyur with mustache wear swimsuit is sexy, but no matter what a lala wear, he will never be sexy

[Azazua_azura]

I don't find nor consider erp legit (i never said stop i just don't consider it real rp) because i have experienced the negativity that can come from it. I was trying to start role-playing in my first MMO outside MUD. I tried WoW and picked a rp server in a data center closest to me. What happen was I was pretty much treated like shi by some non roleplayers with in the first 5 min of my character. I went on the forums to ask why it happen, asked if ot was commen, and how would i report it (i was new to WoW and this was when wrath was released so game wasn't new). The people on the forums then treated me like shi, and told me to grow a thicker skin i then mentioned the word i was called, which I then was mass reported and given a 72 temp ban from the forums and the game.

This happen because erp was "ok'ed" then people open trolled with it, and could use the scape goat "but it's roleplay". Even if it was considered roleplay its pretty weak roleplay, because you can cyber and call it roleplay. This stuff also has real world rammifications if you find out you erp with people 16/18 or lower and can be extridited to the country to be arrested for breaking their laws. (google it and you can find cases of it).

Also just because now a days there is a mindset of "oh it just sex" doesn't make it right to break a law.

I also don't think its good to try to roleplay and have this stuff come up. I've even tried alot of social games like second life etc, and just because I'm a female playing a female i get harrassed daily.

stuff like happens to non participents if its widely accepted.

I'm open-minded but if my fun gets interupted because it, i don't find it a good thing.

All i ever would ask is to keep it off game, make forums for it or something so people like me not harrassed because of it.

[Velox]

This post is almost identical to one made by a self proclaimed "anime loli lover" on a forum I used to frequent, his justification to being attracted to little girls in anime was that they were a) fiction, and b) actually 18+ years of age. You can't possibly tell me that's reasonable, can you?

From a purely psychological standpoint or a purely societal one?

I asked my cousin this question to get his input (he currently holds 2 degrees, one in psychopathology and one in developmental psychology) and he agrees that, while it may contradict current societal "norms," it is 100% true that there are people that are able to easily distinguish between fiction and nonfiction children. He says that society itself is wrong in this aspect due to how the media portrays fiction (basically, he said the vast majority of people are pretty uneducated and directly promote or give in to fear-mongering through media outlets). In fact, the majority of people in this country don't even know what pedophilia means, they just THINK they do based on what the media told them. Pedophilia is the physical attraction to real, prepubescent children. Pedophilia, in the media, is used as an umbrella term for physical attraction to anyone underage, which is also untrue. In psychology, there's three different forms of attraction: pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia. Each one corresponds to different levels of maturity, but all refer to people under-age. In fact, the majority of adults on the planet exhibit some level of ephebophilia, even if just subconsciously, due to human biology and how our hormones work. Pedophilia is also not illegal. That's right, it's perfectly legal to be a pedophile. This is another media-fueled misconception. Pedophilia is a purely mental condition, which no law exists. It'd be like saying, "It's illegal to be autistic, or to have down syndrome." Acting in an inappropriate way on sexual urges in such that a child is involved IS illegal however. Not all pedophiles act on said urges though. If someone doesn't act on said urges, regardless whether or not he/she has them, is perfectly fine. Can pedophilia lead to physical inappropriateness? Sure it can. Assuming it always will is foolish. After all, we don't ban pencils from schools just because 1 kid thought it was funny to stab someone in the leg with it. Misconception #3 comes from the definition itself. Currently, pedophilia is only defined by an attraction to real children. Attractions to fictional children (drawn, painted, computer-rendered, etc.) are not considered mental disorders. In fact, a fictional creation, even if it looks "child-like" is not a living, breathing child. It can't be scarred emotionally or physically, and due to this, no crime could ever be committed unto it. Its existence is purely at the discretion of the creator. "It's not a child, it's an alien on a planet where they are born old and wrinkled and look younger as they age." Yes, that's a stupid-sounding baseline for a piece of art, but it's 100% feasible as an explanation because the work is pure fiction.

This is only a brief excerpt of his rambling (seriously, he went on for like 25 minutes xD), and I won't post the whole thing here. Basically to answer your question, yes, the self-proclaimed "anime loli lover" is 100% reasonable from a purely scientific and psychological view. Now, as my cousin stated, from a social view that's fueled by media misconceptions, he'd be labeled as a little weird.

As a scientist myself though, I have to side with the former. I learned many, many years ago to not trust society with anything, especially with matters of human life.

[Fortified]

I swear to god every thread turns into a debate on lalaphillia.

[Velox]

I swear to god every thread turns into a debate on lalaphillia.

I think every forum of every game with a midget-size race has at least one debate on it xD

[Kikoten]

From a purely psychological standpoint or a purely societal one?

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This is only a brief excerpt of his rambling (seriously, he went on for like 25 minutes xD), and I won't post the whole thing here. Basically to answer your question, yes, the self-proclaimed "anime loli lover" is 100% reasonable from a purely scientific and psychological view. Now, as my cousin stated, from a social view that's fueled by media misconceptions, he'd be labeled as a little weird.

As a scientist myself though, I have to side with the former. I learned many, many years ago to not trust society with anything, especially with matters of human life.

Be sure to thank your cousin for me. I was starting to believe that maybe I was a criminal for loving Lalafells so much.

I'm not being sarcastic, BTW~