Gharen's view on sex and sexuality is pretty much tainted by his past. He doesn't actively seek a relationship, doesn't flirt, and sex quite literally doesn't even enter into his thought process as that drive has basically been beaten out of him. He was raised believing that he was less than worthless and that no woman would ever want him as such. He is more or less completely oblivious to subtle social cues regarding this as a result.
He'd never been with a woman until not long ago, and was laughed at when he admitted the fact. And to this day remains both surprised and confused as to why she'd ever wanted to be with him from the get go, regardless of how often she, or others, might tell him why. (Years of abuse and belief, just don't get unraveled in a day.)
That said, I think sex and relationships in RP can be important and are a viable means of character development regardless of the means via fade to black or not.
One thing I'd like to point out is in CoH there was a distinction players made that I don't really see get made here very often if at all between MRP and ERP. ERP being players that were just doing the act for kicks, and MRP for people that actually RP and would delve into mature topics for story or character development.
He'd never been with a woman until not long ago, and was laughed at when he admitted the fact. And to this day remains both surprised and confused as to why she'd ever wanted to be with him from the get go, regardless of how often she, or others, might tell him why. (Years of abuse and belief, just don't get unraveled in a day.)
That said, I think sex and relationships in RP can be important and are a viable means of character development regardless of the means via fade to black or not.
One thing I'd like to point out is in CoH there was a distinction players made that I don't really see get made here very often if at all between MRP and ERP. ERP being players that were just doing the act for kicks, and MRP for people that actually RP and would delve into mature topics for story or character development.
