Out of Pod Experience

i am an old spacemonk with a metal plate in my head. I do not have any metal in my head in RL - at least nothing i am aware of.

I had to read a very outdated textbook on sex in my Human Sexuality and Social Change class in grad school. Can't remember the name, but it was yellow. It touched on the handkerchief thing and our Homosexual professor said that did not happen. He was younger than you and I so he was probably miss informed.




I touched on that with my original post and 100% agree.



The good ole glory hole. You never know who is on the other side eek



I have said similar things in the past. I will say it again. Sexuality, like most other things in the human experience, occurs along a bell curve and most people are in the absolute middle. They may never think about it or the suppress it, but yes I believe most people operate within a bisexual range. I almost joked earlier that if I was in jail for any extended period of time I may just switch for a bit. The need for human touch is quite powerful and it may just take an extreme situation for the attraction to the same sex to rise to the forefront of an individuals thought process.

If you had said wrestling, judo, jiu jitsu I may have agreed, but I watch footbal for this and these. 2:20 in the 2nd video is spectacular.

Rock Hudson. John Wayne.

Think before posting.

I'll reply... sure what the heck.

I have a total, if you include my inactive random accounts, about 9 total accounts.

I have varying degrees of avatars, 99% male. My first female avatar I made because I wanted to. I was not going to role play as her, I was just bored of making male avatars and wanted to change it up. The little rping I do, which is like when I am bored, she is the sister of one of my other char's.

There was no other reason besides I wanted to make a hauling alt and went 'mm yea lets try a female for the hell of it' I have another female on a new account I keep forgetting to train, and I made her because I wanted a, for lack of a better phrase 'hot picture to look at al day' so one was cause I was bored and figured sure, the other because I saw a female avatar on the forums and went 'woah I would love to look at that all day' so I made one I would like. *shrugs*

The root problem with all these categories is that they're just a way to avoid looking at people as people first and foremost. With the caveat that 'straight' and 'gay' are points on a continuum that can change, and with the additional caveats surrounding sex and gender, I'm a straight, married man. I've also done tabletop roleplaying since the early 1980s.

When I was young and foolish, I believed that men couldn't play women, and so all my characters were men. I tried it once, finally, and I did so deliberately not playing a male-fantasy character. It's not actually that hard. It helps if you actually get to know women as people, read things that they write, talk to them, all that good stuff. (This advice holds if you're a woman who doesn't think she can play a man, too, and so forth across categories.) All you need is empathy and experience, and it's not that hard. The only obstacles are the ones you place in front of yourself, because you have one block or another that prevents you from identifying with someone unlike yourself in some essentially arbitrary way.

After so many decades creating characters, they just spring out now. I want a combat character... OK, here's a hard-charging, hard-partying, sexually omnivorous Gallente male (pictured at left). I want a scout for him... OK, that'll be his liberal-arts-educated, fitness-freak, and considerably more prepared sister. Generally, but not always, the personality comes out first, and then outward markers fall into place based on that.

Not all of them are pretty. In fact, some of them are deliberately plain, or at least flawed. At least one of them is the result of trying to see where I could push the character creator. The genesis varies, but the goal for me is to flesh out a believable person. Everything else is detail.

so, what about those character with really really ugly face?

what it suppose to mean?

You called..?

Yeah, it really sucks in certain areas of the world. Obviously I won't get into political discussion, but that's one of the things that really drew me to come work for CCP, because even where I'm from in the UK there's elements of social awkwardness around same sex relationship and involvement.

There's a fantastic atmosphere working here, and CCP is incredibly supportive in this regard. I think it kind of goes hand in hand with how chill Icelanders are about lifestyle choices in general. Being here makes you feel incredibly relaxed in your own skin.