So, why isn't this a thing yet?

[Zyrusticae]

Pedophilia isn't the act of sexual relations with children, that's only one possible aspect of it. Pedophilia is sexual feelings and expressions towards children. Regardless, it would essentially be child pornography.

...lol

Even if you could dress a child-like race in the skimpiest possible outfit available in the game, the word "child pornography" is an extreme exaggeration, the highest of hyperbole.

The anti-pedo paranoid madness is real.

I'm sorry, but I'd desperately hope SE would be above the creators of TERA, both in game quality and racial options. Plus.. It still doesn't help the fact that people will sexualize them. Like, /blist and all is fine, but I'd prefer not to see grown adults play underage people jumping around in the taffeta set, because you and I both know what they're most likely thinking about.

Cool, Lalafell are a thing, heck Auri women are a thing (I still argue that they look way too childlike and should've given us some actual mature options with regard to them with one of the clans). I'd rather not come even closer to allowing legitimate actual children as PC though. Even if you go the Elin route, at the end of the day it's still 1000 yr old children that folks will end up sexualizing.

I'm not on your side either, but you'd rather allow SE to further pander to a really gross demographic, so I'm sure I'd not want to be on your side. Seriously, are your personal aesthetic tastes worth more to you than keeping the game from being further polluted with some really gross people?

...Yes?

Note that I'm not even necessarily advocating for actual children, just a race that fills the niche in-between Miqo'te and Lalafell. It's a huge, gaping, really obvious hole.

Also, see rule 34. People will literally sexualize anything, INCLUDING LALAFELL, and there is nothing you can do about this. It's a pointless thing to 'fear' when it already happens with every fictional character under the sun. You just don't see it because you don't frequent the places they show up.

Having such a race in-game does not suddenly grant people the power to throw pornography into your face. At most you may see a few characters every now and then in questionable glamours, and the occasional idiotic /shout chat which you already get now. The effect on your everyday life is effectively nothing, unless you have some kind of child-in-bikini phobia that triggers deadly mental trauma or some crap, in which case, seriously, no one has to cater to you because you're an extreme of extreme minorities.

It's like people with arachnophobia trying to get spiders and spider-like creatures removed from the game. You know what game devs do for them? NOTHING. Tough luck, buddy! You'll either steel through your irrational fear or just stop playing the game, and there ain't naught else you can do about it.