Old school, or, that's what you get for liking morally ambiguous characters.

[sparklebutch]

[Poll #1135675]

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[shrift.livejournal.com]

Like most things, I guess it depends upon the situation and if both participants are affected by the spell/pollen. In my last story, I tried to make it free of skanky consent issues as possible, although I probably didn't succeed. *shrug*

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

You actually did succeed - you did wonders. It was absolutely lovely.

This question is not related to that, it's a whole other bar of chocolate uh, thing.

[shrift.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes the skanky consent issues are the point. *g* Sex spells/pollen take the whole business out of the normal realm for me and make things less fraught overall, more of a mutual beer goggles moment. If that makes sense.

Roofies or taking advantage of someone so drunk that they can't consent is a whole other business, however. I can't even pretend to be rational about it.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

There's serious, and then there's crack. There's roofies, and then there's "everyone woke in the morning really wanting to have sex".

The question is how light we are on the fantasy/scifi element. Where is the line? For example, in most mainstream media I find that the representation of gay and trans people as a comic relief is not only unfunny, but can actually be problematic in cementing the perception of the wide audience. This is something like that: how deeply do I want to be thinking?