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Feedback ยท Profile marked as sexual can still display sexual interests (in review)

While editing a profile, under the settings, you're given the option to flag your profile as sexual. However, you're still given access to every interest, including those which are overtly sexual. (Worse, new profiles are shown every trait, sexual and otherwise, before even being given the option to flag the profile as sexual.) It would certainly open the site to a broader audience if this wasn't the case.

The only issue I can see is determining which interests to flag as sexual (and hide from profiles not marked as sexual) and which to keep. Many are obviously sexual (penetration, oral, orgasm control, etc.) and many are obviously non-sexual (world-building, telepathy, adventure). There are many that sit on a weird middle line that are fetishy -- not sexual on their own, but generally used in a sexual context. Things like mind control can be used to create plots around unwitting betrayal, for example, but are more commonly focused around the whole sexy loss of control and power exchange thing.

tl;dr : If Litphoria is looking to distance itself from a particular roleplay site where a presumable chunk of its userbase migrated from, make more of a distinction between sexual and non-sexual profiles. Alternatively, move the profile age-wall to be shown at account creation (or whenever a visitor is not logged in), and assume all profiles are sexual.

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created: 16 July 16 at 06:32 AM (build: 7/1/2016 1:00 AM beta)

Lich Community Manager

We have plans related to this that we'll post in feedback soon.

The Mood is Write

Posting to get alerts for this. Also, I recently brought this up in a conversation with Lich where I linked a rough grouping of the interests by sexual, nonsexual, themes, and unsure.

I think we should only really blacklist the blatantly sexual stuff from being selectable on nonsexual profiles, but maybe have 'sex' and 'smut' available from the nonsexual list, so people who want it can put it under 'maybe' or 'no' for the purpose of the search function, or their own personal notes or preferences about where or when it can show up.

Desdemona Fireheart

The profile for a non-sexual character has a different focus. Even descriptive stuff like hair color, body built, Hygiene, this is quite irrelevant for a "normal" roleplay.

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