Editor's notes

On Sexual Assault and the Embrace

Assault; impromptu, abridged. YMMV.

• Somebody does something to your body without your consent (which would take a lot of people straight back to their childhoods, if anywhere, forcing them into their enneagram corner, activating engrams, whatever fancy terms your religion has for the effects of an impotence crisis), often physically hurting the victim, which is all the more terrifying since most people rely on visuals for guidance, leaving you terribly in the dark in reference to things happening inside you; in many cases you can't tell "what the story is" until you've had a physical examination. Your very body is made into the scene of a crime, a location you can't easily get away from.
• There is a strong dominance/control theme.
• The victim's body is invaded in a way that has sexual connotations even reflected in the term itself that seems to repeat the dominance/submission patterns that are imprinted on us by society (and perchance our genes) particularly in reference to hetereosexual interaction.
• This sometimes amounts to procreation, in an unsettling and warped way.
• Oftentimes, certain trains of thought are triggered off (what have I done to make him pick me, did I encourage it in some way, what I hadn't done this or worn that...).

And my point is...
Please read the above again, only this time not with Sexual Assault but with the Embrace in mind. The definition still fits, neatly adding something not totally unlike Stockholm syndrome, as well. I found that alarming. Do you?

"And I wonder: does anybody feel the same way I do?
And is evil something you are, or something you do?"

This place is based on the WoD, and the WW stuff started with V:tM, and that makes it look like our theme is based around the glorification and/or mystification of -- if you pardon the term -- a flavour of rape. Please guide me. Am I overreacting? Considering this is "just a game?" (But if it is just a game, and whatever happens here has no validity, does not shape our thinking, affect our perceptions the way our languages do, then why do we have an Assault Policy in the first place?)
If you feel different, and you can put it in words, I'd like to know, by +mail Chel*, page, or +bbpost. If you think I got the facts wrong, and Your Sources Are K00ler Than Mine, I'd also like to know.

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