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It can be an awkward bit of roleplaying for a lot of tables... but hooking up with a succubus isn't really in and of itself an evil act. It's certainly a chaotic act.
The thing is that while the act itself isn't evil... the succubus IS evil, and she'll be using everything at her disposal to influence her buddy to be evil as well... be it using trickery and honeyed words to trick someone into doing something evil to just using charm monster and suggestion and the type once the victim's stacked up a lot of negative levels to make them do something evil.
The succubus's profane gift is designed specifically to give GMs rules and a tool to manipulate and influence players in this precise way; it's not an evil act to accept a profane gift, but it DOES mean that you've got a chaotic evil demon attached to your mind who can target you with suggestion spells once per round for the rest of your life no matter how far away you are. That's a pretty big price to pay for a +2 bonus to a stat, unless you're cool with doing evil stuff, in which case she's done her job.
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So I am the GM of a campaign my party ran into a Succubus, now before any discussions or me introducing story hooks one of my players instantly shouts "I wanna have relations with her"
Nothing evil about it. It's a horrible waste of resources, but if the party is ok with that, it's fine.
Nothing about sex is inherently good, evil, chaotic or lawful. Incidentally, the Book of Erotic Fantasy has an *excellent* write-up on how the various alignments view sex and romance.
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I'd like to comment on a few other little things in light of James Jacobs' remarks.
This sort of thing is the succubus' job. The PC is almost certainly not clever enough to outplay it in a game of seduction. This will likely end with the succubus coming out ahead in tempting and corrupting the PC, through the various methods James has already suggested.
If anyone in the party has a good enough Knowledge/Planes (or maybe Knowledge/Religion, though that's not rules-as-written its purview) check, they might pick up on this and be suitably alarmed by what is likely to be the gradual ruin of a previously cherished, worthy soul. They might want to speak up and do something.
At any rate, I mostly agree with him on the basic cause-effect progression here even if I disagree on some of the finer points. The relationship in and of itself isn't evil, but it looks like the PC is already being taken in by the succubus' temptation... and that is a notably evil thing. At this time, no, I would not shift them to an Evil alignment. Enough gradual seduction or being convinced to do a directly, outright Evil thing might do it, though.
To put it another way: Normally, being magically charmed/controlled into doing something Evil is not actually Evil insofar as one's own soul is concerned; even truly divine creatures can lose control of themselves this way (this is why I resent the implication that classes need Atonement to regain features when it happens to them, it's a "punish the victim" policy). Yet when someone knowingly puts themselves into circumstances where they can be so charmed, and the only pay-off is some lusty pleasure... that's beginning the walk down Evil, willfully empowering Evil.
This single act isn't severe enough, as has been said by others, but it's certainly a good (bad?) start toward Neutral, and then eventually NE or CE.
Edit: Also, the party ought to smack him for spending rare/expensive resources on restoration spells for... well, lusty pleasure with a demon.
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A succubus? Why do all these mortals want to join them? From us you will get more for the price. Follow Abraxas, and you will gain all knowledge and power you can dream of, or more. And certainly, this is better by far than a few copulations.
Abraxas gives you far more for the same price!