What is ERP?

[van_arn]

You could say this about literally any content. There's nothing stopping a creep trying to get frisky with someone they met in a trial mount farm group. Creepy NSFW behaviour doesn't always only begin with rp.

The point of forbidding advertisements in PF that are clearly for erp is so that the game isn't openly showing ease of access for 18+ sexual content in a game that welcomes minors to play.

If the game was 18+ I wouldn't care as much. Sure minors would still be playing but parents who buy their children these games are the ones putting them at risk for not taking the age rating seriously. In the case of this game, that is rated for teens under 18, by allowing sexual content to be openly advertised we are literally hoping for minors to have enough sense to know how to deal with this situation. I hope I don't need to explain to anyone why this isn't good (not directed at you, just to anyone in general).

It can, but the issue at hand is how a small group of creeps (public advertising explicit rp, groomers) is finding safe harbor in a larger group (the general RP community.) The bad apple analogy isn't far off; they're the bad apples spreading their rot and ruining the barrel. Since they're not getting removed from the barrel, it no longer really matters which individual apple is rotten; the whole barrel might need to be tossed out.