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Good point. This is what attracts me to MUDs actually. I search for other players who have the cognitive abilities to think outside their own realities and actually Role Play something different than themselves, or even just a different facet of who they are.
On the topic of sex I have tried to play a sexually repressed character and yes, I relied HEAVILY from the Christian dogma. The result is that it gave me the insight into the fear component of Christianity, how a fear-based ideology manipulated an internal human necessity (i.e. sex) into this thing that is not so nice. I did not re-apply the repression to my own life but it allowed me to see quite clearly the force that has infected so many others in my own community. There was, of course, a bit of research involved. I talked to some of my Sociology Profs at the time and two practicing psychologists to kind of check my math.
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