Originally Posted by Bufotenina
On a personal side I was a victim of sexual abuse and subsequent trauma, still I completely disagree with the "flag" system

I didn't suggest a flag system, I suggested you just be able to turn it off. And no, that doesn't "make people weak", don't assume what another person is going through or what is best for them. Different types of trauma exist, and frankly exposure is quite often not the answer. If this is what you gotta do to cope, more power to you, but calling other people weak for needing something else is really gross. Trauma is complicated and different people process it differently. My girlfriend is exposed to crap like this constantly and it doesn't seem to make her any stronger, it just hurts. So asking for a game to be a little kinder to that fact shouldn't get this kind of response.

The romance is implemented this way so that anyone can have an escape. The design of the romance is coddling people who want dating to be easy. If you're not gonna give them the hard truth, maybe extend the same kindness to someone who wants an escape from forced sex/romance...

Originally Posted by Bufotenina
we live in times where the idea of not being able to do whatever we want it's dreared and thought as something impossible and feel like an imposition that mutilates our freedom (specially since there's payment involved), and no matter how the herosexuality (specialy how it's based not on dialogue but on appreciation system) makes the companions seem like groupies, even if Larian adds characters with a firm and delined sexuality they should add all the sexualities (I already hear the rumbles of people complaining because there's not a bisexual companion or a pansexual or an asexual).

So yeah the fact that a lot of the companions feel like groupies right now is in fact my complaint. And you're right that people would demand not heterosexual options, and they're well within their rights to. Most RPGs are targeted pretty exclusively towards heterosexual men, and it wouldn't hurt anyone to include some variety.