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Old 01-09-2020, 11:26 AM   #111
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Would you give more points to a person with lechery in a metropolis than you would one who lives in a rural community? You have the same issue - Player A has a much greater pool of how often this will come up than Player B.
Having lived in both cities and rural communities, the biggest difference is your going to be hitting on the same people all the time, and probably eventually going to lower your standards to include less attractive people, in the rural community. In the city your far less likely to run into the same people nearly as often. Your also more likely to run into people from geographically further away from you on the daily in a rural community then in a city. Two and a half hours away from Carencro, Louisiana is New Orleans. Two and a half hours away from one side of Los Angeles....is the other side of Los Angeles.

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Old 01-09-2020, 11:46 AM   #112
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Having lived in both cities and rural communities, the biggest difference is your going to be hitting on the same people all the time, and probably eventually going to lower your standards to include less attractive people, in the rural community. In the city your far less likely to run into the same people nearly as often. Your also more likely to run into people from geographically further away from you on the daily in a rural community then in a city. Two and a half hours away from Carencro, Louisiana is New Orleans. Two and a half hours away from one side of Los Angeles....is the other side of Los Angeles.
Like you said earlier though - "Those arguing that's not exactly the case, especially giving examples with multiple attractive people at once, are wrong, if their are two pretty people of the correct gender your dealing with at the same time, you make a pass on both of them. (or roll not to) That's absolutely clearly the case by RAW." - even just your Walmart in LA will have more people in it than the one in Dodge City. Or if you prefer we can talk classroom size - a smalltown high school with a graduating class of 20 will have fewer people High School Senior PC interacts with than one where there are 50 students in the history class alone.

More people -> more attractive people -> lechery coming up more often.
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Old 01-09-2020, 12:27 PM   #113
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Like you said earlier though - "Those arguing that's not exactly the case, especially giving examples with multiple attractive people at once, are wrong, if their are two pretty people of the correct gender your dealing with at the same time, you make a pass on both of them. (or roll not to) That's absolutely clearly the case by RAW." - even just your Walmart in LA will have more people in it than the one in Dodge City. Or if you prefer we can talk classroom size - a smalltown high school with a graduating class of 20 will have fewer people High School Senior PC interacts with than one where there are 50 students in the history class alone.

More people -> more attractive people -> lechery coming up more often.
On the other hand, you are unlikely to have "more than brief" interactions with more people in a large city than in a small rural community; indeed, the latter may lend itself to you having "more than brief" interactions with more people, as with fewer people around they are more likely to put in effort to try to get to know you (a person you pass on the street in New York City, you are unlikely to ever see them again; a person you pass on the street in a town of 200, you'll probably be running into multiple times a week)... at least until they find out you're an incorrigible lecher. In terms of school, I was in the Honors program from middle through high school, and I certainly interacted much more with the students in the same small classrooms than I did with those in my larger non-Honors classes, even adjusting for time (that is, I interacted more per class with those in Honors than with those in, say, my Geometry class). This was largely because I knew I'd be dealing with the other Honors students for up to 7 years, while the ones in my other classes I may well never have another class with again.
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Old 01-09-2020, 12:32 PM   #114
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Like you said earlier though - "Those arguing that's not exactly the case, especially giving examples with multiple attractive people at once, are wrong, if their are two pretty people of the correct gender your dealing with at the same time, you make a pass on both of them. (or roll not to) That's absolutely clearly the case by RAW." - even just your Walmart in LA will have more people in it than the one in Dodge City. Or if you prefer we can talk classroom size - a smalltown high school with a graduating class of 20 will have fewer people High School Senior PC interacts with than one where there are 50 students in the history class alone.

More people -> more attractive people -> lechery coming up more often.
Except really, as an individual you aren't necessarily going to have enough interactions that are more then just the briefest contact to matter. Even in a rural community you've still got thousands of people in the general area. You might have fewer attractive people, but then your just going to lower your standards. You can walk past someone in a wallmart without lech triggering, things like that certainly count as the briefest of contact. You can't resist making a pass on your checkout clerk though. Unless you are in an Extremely small community you are going to have Lech trigger just as often as in the city. If you are in such a small community your then MUCH MORE likely to get into a lot of trouble very quickly. You aren't likely to stay in such a place and if you do it probably isn't going to go very well for you at all.

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Old 01-10-2020, 12:49 PM   #115
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Depending on the culture, bisexuality might be a quirk.
In some societies, not being interested in a variety of partner types would be considered an oddity.

I don't claim to be an expert here, but have studied human sexuality both in and outside of college courses.

I would like to point out that the concepts of heterosexually, homosexuality, bisexuality, multisexuality, etc. are relatively modern. Throughout most of human history and cultures, sexuality was defined not in terms of orientation, but of actions.

Also according to what I've studied, most sexually-interested human beings are some level of "bisexual/multisexual." An individual who has a sex drive but is never attracted to someone outside of a narrowly defined sex/gender/group is actually relatively uncommon.
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