[quote=@Zeroth] It seems to me that this has become a lot more common than it used to be, to boot. Maybe I just never paid that much attention to the Status Bar until recently, but I feel like in the last year or so there's been some real hum-dingers that have even necessitated mods getting involved for mere nothing-burgers. As for my own personal peeve, I now avoid any RP that includes "sexuality" in its CS like the plague. You can't ERP on the public forum in the first place, you already probably have a personality section that gives actual USEFUL information about how to interact with the character---what's the point of it, except to inevitably cause some creepy shit with that one character who's gonna hit on someone regardless of preference, and not play it for comic relief? Or to start drama when the inevitably attached politics/ideologies connected to that kind of thing rears up? Hell, I see some of it in settings where sexuality has no business even being mentioned; anime high school RPs where everyone's [i]14 years old[/i], for instance. [/quote] Defining a character's sexuality doesn't necessarily equate to an RP being erotic though. It's a legitimate element to include in environments wherein romance is likely to emerge at any degree; frankly, any brand of high school/college setting has a door open for that sort of stuff. I just view at as supplementary to the character's personality. Really just depends on how it's played out in practice.