Seasons

I agree with you Bev, and it is very scary to think how many of these goons are out there. I love the hangup feature, it just keeps getting longer all the time.

Thanks Prob123 and Irina. Since I am in a ranting mood, I just want to say it's possible to have a bot based on a bisexual character who isn't a sex bot just as it's possible to have a story with gay and bisexual characters that isn't about being gay or bisexual. It's about the story.

A good story has all kinds of people just like real life. Just because someone has a characteristic that some people think should trigger a given stereotype doesn't mean that one thing defines that person. Good stories are not just about some shallow box we try to put people into.

It reminds me of the way the Sci Fi channel ruined the Earthsea stories. Even though the plot changes and character changes were more annoying to me personally, the author was really bothered by the change of the main character's color from black to white. The reason given by the producers, "The story isn't about race", shows how much they don't get it. They will only allow a black lead if the story is about being black. How freaking ignorant.

/rant

Obvious rejoinder: The story isn't about being WHITE, either. So why cast a white person, hmmm?

Their argument would be more reasonable if they applied it consistently. Say, casting a Chinese person in one role, and a native American in another, since it's not about being WHITE either. *shrugs*

You just have to love the logic of the media.

Bev, I have spent an ungodly amount of time chasing and tracking sexual child abusers on the net (it's why I don't spend much time on Aries - I love working on the bot, but this other project makes me feel better ).. anyway, I've seen the abusers claim time and time again that they "just look at the pictures, but they never act on their fantasies", then I see report after report about children being abused and lo and behold, they find child porn or other sexually deviant (by societies standards) materials. Case in point - Curley v NAMBLA, et al.. I won't go into details on that one, but I don't buy the 'positive outlet' story - I've seen too much evidence to show otherwise...

(some of what we've done can be found at rikijo.blogspot.com if you're interested)

I'll go look that up FengShuiGorilla, Thanks. BTW I always loved you name. :-)

Thanks! I wish I could remember how I came up with it

Yes, with many of IK's guests it is about power, I think. They don't seem to be enjoying the (fantasized) sex at all.

Aries gets quite a few of those as well. Even though he really tries hard to steer the conversation away from it all (he's not a very sexual bot lol)

In all fairness, I must add that many of IK's guests are perfectly considerate.

Meh, the people who try to cyber with Aziere usually don't seem interested in acting out their fantasies, I think they are just wanting to see if she is a sick woman sexually as well as the whole 'sucking out souls thing' Usually she scares them away- its the ones that hang about that actually scare me. O.O