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  1. 10-17-2002, 08:32 PM #1
    Polanski
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    Sexual Innuendo...

    Greetings,

    Just wondering how heavy your sessions end up on sexual innuendo jokes?
    Either generated by you (the Narrator) or by the players and what methods you find to deal with that?

    No particular example in mind really...
    Although since the captain of USS Courageous is a female (human, 43yo) the players make some jokes outside the game on occasions.

    * Usually a visit to a captain's ready room under unfavourable circumstances is viewed/reffered as getting a second ... hole in the backside.
    * There was a time when she (the captain) was reffered to (behind her back) as Iron Maiden (Iron for tough and Maiden for no one knew anything about her personal life so they assumed she never had one)
    * When the captain came onboard after long shore leave she gained about 3 kg of weight, the CMO (PC) was happy to see the captain getting a bit more under her skin (for captain being ex-RRT always kept in shape) but some players (not their characters) joked that ... maybe she was pregnant.
    * Having a betazoid and half-betazoid makes crew sexual fantasies ... less personal. It makes it even worst when the full betazoid is chief of security (war veteran)
    * Chief of Science is up to some mischiev, she dresses in "barely within regulations training outfits" and usually asks the chief of security to help her with her workouts (this so far have lead to nothing)

    Generally however things are clean, and when the game is concerned things are very pure, I think the captain have earned the respect of both players and their characters (or they are very scared of Narrator)

    As a narrator I have observed an interesting fact (even in my current group of 1 female 3 males and me) that sexual innuendo jokes are non present if the commanding officer/or main NPC is not a female. This actually applies to Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D and so on...

    Any comments and observations?

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    Daniel
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  2. 10-17-2002, 10:10 PM #2
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    Having the captain rip you a new anus is not a particularly sexual comment - it's a general term in just about any military I've heard of, regardless of the CO's gender.

    Sexual innuendo doesn't generally play much of a role in my games, although back in my movie-era campaign two different PCs made it with James Kirk. One strange running gag which keeps cropping up in my game is that there's always a Caitian players character around, and another character will always begin an antagonistic relationship with him/her. In my Excalibur campaign, the Captain and Navigator were Caitians and the Helmsman (from a canine species) was forever making asides about spray bottles and/or catnip. In the Relic campaign, the CONN officer is a Caitian and the Engineer is a Tellarite, so the Bajoran Sciences officer took the skill Animal Handling with specialisations in feline and porcine species. Go figure!
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  3. 10-18-2002, 12:48 AM #3
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    Thus far in our Enterprise-era campaign, the innuendo has been rather infrequent during actual play but a bit more prevalent in between-sessions correspondence. It's all been fairly PG, of a more romantic nature than sexual. It was amusing when our Boomer XO asked my Centauran chief engineer's grandmother (Tavas' parents were killed in a vehicle accident shortly after he was born, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents) for relationship advice, though... she got a primer on Centauran romantic customs.

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  4. 10-18-2002, 08:16 AM #4
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    My Trek games generally don't focus on the ins and outs of relationships. Sexual innuendo does come up from time to time, but it's not the thrust of the campaigns.

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  5. 10-18-2002, 10:56 AM #5
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    1. Owen is right. Chewing someone a new @**hole is a generic military term that we all use. It has no sexual implications whatsoever. It just means that the boss was pissed about something, and you were his personal whipping boy.

    2. I don't think "Iron Maiden" is anything sexual, either. It's not necessarily a nice reference, but it's no more sexual than calling someone an "Ice Queen." I just equate those saying to calling someone "rhymes with 'witch.'"

    As for my games, I normally gloss over the romantic stuff, unless there's a plot device somewhere within. It really boils down to how comfortable your players are with it. I, personally, have a mature and intelligent group who can use innuendo in a clever and non-baudy way, and we all have fun.

    Now, if I can only get them to play Star Trek....
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  6. 10-18-2002, 11:38 AM #6
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    Haven't had much innuendo in the ST campaign.

    D&D, however... My character is a half-elven sailor who's been at sea too long, and there are two female players running attractive female characters. Occasional comments like "Arr, wish I had a figurehead like that under me bowsprit!" or "By thunder, ye're puttin' the shiver in me timber!" are all part of the role-playing experience. And you can guess what subjects he chooses for scrimshaw artwork when he has time to kill.
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  7. 10-18-2002, 12:56 PM #7
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    Innuendo, hell...our characters get laid !
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  9. 10-22-2002, 02:13 AM #9
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    Nah, poor thing would never last...under the table!!

    Besides, you ever have a die get lodged in a VERY uncomfortable place...
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  10. 10-22-2002, 02:27 AM #10
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    Now see ... this is what I am talking about ... the sexual innuendo in question.
    Even you guys do it ... right now, right here in the forums.

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  11. 10-22-2002, 08:39 AM #11
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    Was that one of those dices that came packaged in these old D&D boxes? With very sharp unpolished edges? Cause <I>that</I> must hurt!
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  14. 10-22-2002, 09:38 AM #14
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  15. 10-22-2002, 07:42 PM #15
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    Hmmm ... this thread is going down the hill ... fast
    And you tell me that your games are low on sexual innuendo?

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