From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Wed 13 Jul 1994 - 10:47:47 EEST
>I don't agree with this. Rape does not interfere with celebacy which is all
>about abstention. I should interfere with viginity which is all about purity.
>This is how it was in my own game "Crown of Thorns" which was based around
>pseudo RQ style christianity where virginity was highjly thought off and
>gave magical benifits (Which also made a virgin a better live sacrifice).
>Whether this translates to real RQ I am not sure.
But I wasn't running "Roman Catholic Quest". I was running RuneQuest in Glorantha.
The idea that "virginity" is "all about purity" is NOT universal, 100% valid for all societies. For example: A "virgin" in some cultures could simply be an "unmarried young woman" regardless of her sexual activity.
You're hanging too many Christian connotations onto a non-Christian world.
Can you prove that virginity is "all about purity"? 100%, all the time, in all cultures?
In the Orlanthi religion, virginity is a matter of freedom. The idea that rape removes virginity is as absurd to an Orlanthi as the idea that theft removes legal ownership.
"It is Yelm who makes laws that ignore what people intend." "It is Orlanth who, instead, has justice."
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