I'll admit...that gave me a chuckle and I hate it.
Whilst I'll happily defend people who ERP and have. Ultimately it's a teen rated game and for all the outfits you can get it it manages to keep that teen rating. Mature themes can still happen in teen rated content but there is a limit to what that can be and how it is presented. Given they keep their teen rating, they're obviously keeping within those walls enough, but that doesn't mean because there are adult themes done in a teen friendly way that they get pushed to a teen unfriendly way.
But yes, parents are going to let their kids play the teen rated game.
However, it is your problem. If you're found ERPing with a minor and somebody goes to the police? How will it stack up in court? The law often will treat the adult as the responsible party. They won't hold the parents responsible for letting them play an age appropriate game, they won't hold the kid responsible because they're a minor, they won't hold SE responsible if they have covered themselves legally (which arguably, the ToS does, because it prohibits illegal activity). Even if it's a fantasy game and not real life, Cybersex is still considered an issue, which ERP could easily be interpreted as.
YoshiP also plainly said in an interview to report in game brothels, he said there is an issue with that sort of thing legally and pointed to the part of the ToS that talks about the law. And said they'd investigate them and that they have legal support for most countries when investigating them.
This is why people have an issue with it being publicly advertised. Me personally, I see no issue of all parties know for certain that they're adults and do it all privately. Openly advertising it, whilst seeing it doesn't bother me, I recognise the potential risks for minors and potential legal issues for that, so it is probably better than the PF isn't filled with stuff that contradicts the game's age rating.
Whilst to a degree you can put up adult content walls, there's ways around it, horny teenagers aren't necessarily going to be honest about their age. And the law will still tend to hold the adult responsible. Discord's feature there might help, but then my argument then would be, if you must advertise, do it through Discord.
I'm a regular RPer, a LOT of RP advertisements are done on Discord.



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