<span style="font-style: italic">It was advised of me of me to put this blog post up on the forum a while ago, so me being lazy, I just got to it now.  <img alt=":roll:" src="./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif" title="Rolling Eyes"/> Thanks to Jacquelope for telling me to do this.</span><br/><br/><br/>To me, role plays are more then just a game, they are a wonderful collaboration of two or more artists abilities. When it works well, even non-sexual RPs, it can result in a special intimacy where the players gain a unique understanding of each other, an how their partner functions and thinks.<br/><br/>While many sexual RPs are just things written for some quick fun, there are many as well that are done to try and get that same intimacy with another person. Which can form a wonderful connection between the players that, to me at least, feels like a sort of sex of the mind and art.<br/><br/>For "impossible" fetishes like vore, it can hold even greater significance, since it allows the players to have something where they can easily slip into the role of a pred or prey. Experiencing the fantasy in a way that they can't even in a well written story. In some particularly good RPs were I was prey, I've actually gone into subspace. Having been so into the story.<br/><br/>Of course there are many flaws with RPing this way, but recently I've realized one that hadn't really occurred to me; a lack of any real after care. For those who are familiar with BDSM, after a scene there is usually a well sized period of cuddling, wrapping the sub in a blanket and making sure that they are alright. This is wonderful after all the physical and psychological turns they go through after a scene, and is rather important to any BDSM relationship.<br/><br/>With chat based RPs this doesn't really happen. After all, there really isn't much real life physical element to a vore RP scene, and most RPs stop when one of the players has to hurry off to RL. After care is kind of impractical in RPs, and it's not as though the Pred player can go through the screen and give the Prey player a hug and a glass of water.<br/><br/>Still it could be hard on a player, who goes from being completely emerged in a scene where they are in a place of total submission to a pred, only to sometimes without any warning, be put right back out of the scene in a room alone while still feeling all that heavy submissiveness. For me at least, the extreme levels of domination and submission between a predator and prey is one of the big draws of vore, so that just adds to the potential shock when the RP ends and the players leave the chat room.<br/><br/>I really don't have anything particularly useful to say about the subject. No real solutions. Talking and and doing an OOC after care bit would probably help and be nice, but since many RPs end suddenly due to outside influences, it's not really practical. Really this is more of an observation that sort of popped into my head and I felt compelled to write about. Really, I'm not even sure if it isn't just a me being weird thing. Anyway hope it was interesting at least.<br/><br/>-Lady List ^_^