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I've been following this thread from the start, and fascinatingly (or unfortunately) enough, I am now suffering the sort of abuse described in so many previous posts. But I'm a male playing a male character!
We started a campaign and the group needed a fighter, so I figured it would be fun to play a buffoonish character a la Othar Tryggvassen from the Girl Genius comic strips. So I boosted his CHA (all the way to 14) and made him a Cayden Cailean worshipper.
And apparently that was all the GM needed.
Every time I try to speak with a female NPC, the GM just says, "OK, you can sleep with her." Another player constantly drops denigrating comments about how many venereal diseases I must have, and how I know all about perversion. Another PC asks me why I'm such a 'man slut'.
Essentially, any and all roleplaying of my character is dead. As soon as I open my mouth, the GM simply throws multiple women at me and says, "They all want you. Take your pick," and the other players frown at me and cluck their tongues and make comments about what a horrible person I am.
Needless to say, I haven't slept with *anyone* in the entire campaign, but it doesn't help.
I'm sick to death of it already (only 5 or 6 sessions in), and I'm going to have a chat with the GM about how if that's how it's going to be, I'm going to have to change characters or drop out because the sessions have become nothing but irritating frustration for me.
But I have to say, I have new appreciation for the women who have posted here having to tolerate this far more often than I. (It's the first time I've suffered it in 36 years of gaming.) I'm ready to quit that campaign after only 2 months because it's so pervasive I feel I can't RP at all any more. Imagining it happening in almost every campaign you try to play in makes me sad.