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Because if someone writes a book about terrorists raping children, you don't have to buy it. You don't have to read it. You won't find passages of the book plastered on the walls of bookstores for anyone to accidentally come across. You probably don't even have to talk to anyone who will read it.

But when someone rps these things, it's a lot closer to you. It'd be like your sister bought that book and left it open on a table in the middle of a graphic scene. The community is smaller, so the possibility of being connected to the people who wrote those things is higher.

That all being said, I've seen people rp terrorists, play characters who were victims of child abuse, and rape happens a lot in sex games. Likewise, I know no one who would enjoy reading a book about those subjects for pleasure. So it's not as much of a double standard as you think.

I agree that it's not true that fiction gets a free pass to be offensive (this comm complains about canons being trashy all the time), but I actually asked the opposite question of OP a long time ago and got pretty much the exact same argument flipped (i.e. you can avoid the subject in rp by not playing or looking for it, but you can't avoid it if it's in a story without stopping the story). I think it's more of the social aspect (it's not about offending the general public, it's like offending someone in the same room as you) and the wish-fulfillment vibes other anons mentioned. People don't play Nazi fetish characters to philosophically work out their experiences with antisemitism.

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