[@Shorticus]

[quote=@tsukune]
Romance =/= sex, period. Romance is the psychological-emotional bond the characters [i]share with each other[/i]; sex is simply to [i]satisfy personal lust[/i].

Regarding child characters...
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So at the moment in an RP I'm in we have a running joke that it's basically a harem, due to the number of female character we initially started off with (it has balanced out though), but at no point can I see two character hitting it off. We have one character with a child support character, one with a young teen sibling support character and our oldest Player character is in her late 50's. It comes across as a balanced, well thought out world where characters appear with different dynamics and the children actually help emphasise the traits of the older main character. However I will admit that this dynamic doesn't work for every roleplay.

I dunno... when it comes to sex in an RP, I have to agree with [@Shorticus]. I've read a few Smuts to see if it was something I'd get into, and honestly it just felt [b][i]weird[/i][/b] enough reading it, let alone writing about it! There's ways to do romance that doesn't lead to sex and I think the best way to describe it is with a picture, that I wont link, where it has two comparison images of 1950 and 2015 titled "first date" with the older date having a silhouette of a man with flowers and kissing the girl, and the 2015 comparison was a girl on her knees sucking him off.

Why do I bring that up?

I actually think many people can't do romance without sex. A breakdown in communication over the years and publicity through media, internet, hyperactive teens, and ease in available porn sites has confused people into thinking that romance is created through sex, rather sex is created through romance. I know that sounds a bit philosophical but proof can be seen in how popular a book like 50 shades of grey was, a story about a girl's sexual desires.