What is ERP?

[Saefinn]

I'd say Teppie made a pretty good response. There are of course people who blur the lines of ERP and Cybersex but the concepts are different. ERP is the RP equivalent of writing erotica or erotic scenes.

For me my view when it comes to ERP and RP in general is that it should make sense for the characters and the world they are in, because I treat RP as seriously as I do writing, because to me it is writing and is a creative outlet as somebody who loves writing.

So it becomes about the character and not the writer. So to me it's more like writing a raunchy scene like in Game of Thrones. And if comes to two characters doing the deed I think you have a choice of writing it out or fading to black. But to me that's where it's place exists within the RP world.

But there are people who like erotica as a genre and may go out specifically to do that, which is fine because it's a legitimate writing genre.

But some people use it as a reason just to Cyber it up and I don't object to people doing it as long as they are consenting adults, but I don't consider it the same thing. This isn't people writing characters in a story, this is people using their character as an avatar to engage in sexual activities, but may sometimes use an RP flair (hence my comment about blurring lines). Those people are probably gonna find themselves incompatible with how I RP. But to each their own, I'm very live and let live so long as they're keeping it legal.