Sexuality

Who

Only a very few Puzzleboxians seem to swear by concepts such as 'sexual orientations'. The ones who do seem to be mainly foreign imports and possibly Vikes (exceptions would be interesting to note here). What happened to the heterosexuals and homosexuals? People only interested in their own species (even more quaint concept ^.~)? Did someone edit out things like that to avert angst resulting from love interests with incompatible tastes? The Strange would certainly boo at such a concept. - Grace

Other Ways of Looking at Things: 'The End of Gay', by Bert Archer, starting with how the concept of Homosexual was invented in the 1800's and going on to state that there are only Sexual Acts, not Identity

And another book (which I will be asking my Russian friend for again) in which an essay talks about how Soviets, because they didn't have Stonewall (and, thus, a revolutionary take on sexuality), seperate their Identity from their Sexuality. Thus, everyone is Heterosexual, but how they have sex is just them having sex, not their Identity.

Deviants

• Sweet William appears to be homosexual and possess homophilia, a combination of traits leading to exclusivity.
• shinsei and ojou seem exclusively physically heterosexual. Though they've been known to join cuddlepiles.

How

Fetishes are definitely highly common here. Such as mind control and power exchange and Strange acts. What does this say about Puzzlebox? Does it mean anything?

Some call "fetishes" a grossly unhealthy thing, an unhealthy obsession with something. Some call "fetishes" a perfectly normal thing, which shouldn't even be called "fetishes". They're just different tastes. Some treat it like something unusual, some make it part of their everyday life, and even more try to force them out of their lives intirely. Some call them chemical, some call them societal, and some still think they're learned and trained.

There is more debate on what a "fetish" is than "sexuality" or "gender".

Where

Warpian standards on proper times and circumstances are a striking standard that can even influence people not affliated to that Warp while within it. Top apparently flavors private sexualities but public power displays, whereas Up functions solely on a basis of avoiding public disturbances. Down is interesting, it's noticable that while there aren't any strict rules against public exhibitionism, people tend to take their sex to more intimate surrounding, though privacy varies (from popular if intimate drug dens, to private hideaways). Charm appears to view sex as just another acceptable public play, while for Bottom it's a way of life, a culture. And Strange has no real rules whatever.

I'm going on about notions of acceptable circumstances for sex because it really does seem to impact peoples sexualities noticably. And Down's a case that interests me, because as anarchic as it is, I've noticed they seem to tend toward somewhat more privacy or at least smaller public surroundings than Bottom or Charm. I wonder what factors induce this?

I'm going to suggest that maybe it's because grimy streets aren't commonly accepted as being comfortable places to make out. Though there are people who prefer them, we haven't seen many. - Echo