Almost 100% I've Seen This....

Every boarding school site I joined when I was younger, and the occasional one I'm on now is overun with sex threads. girl-girl, guy-guy, or girl-guy, there's always sex everywhere on the form. It's one reason why I tend to stay away from any site that has a dorm-system.

Am I just running across these sites by bad luck or have other people noticed this too?

I have noticed how many threads here complain about sex in boarding school rps...

Said it before, will say it again: I was at a boarding school for a year. And sex is pretty much everything anybody thinks about. It's not really that surprising: push a bunch of teenagers together day and night... a big hormone soup of lust. Couple that with rp land which takes both the risk to be caught and expelled AND the crippling shyness away and of course they are overrun with sex threads.
Yes, it's boring. The only thing that is beyond me is how that is still somehow surprising. (Or really, why boards are set up with the only playable characters being teenagers -- and I suppose teachers.) Cause... really... teenage years are pretty much the least interesting time in our lives when you take away the spring awakening so to speak. What else happens there? Cliques, drinking and bullying and... what, studying?

Yeah.....you can only write but so many threads along the vein of "And then I studied for biology and physics.." or..."And then I walked to class." Sex does seem to be the main spin of a lot of teenage boarding school rp, but, as stainsofblue said, those years are often limited in their decision making choices, and thus, for a writer, can be kinda...inherently boring. It takes some real skill to milk out great ongoing roleplay based on a fixed location, steep ic rules, and teenager angst.

With stainsofblue.

I mean, what were you hoping to join the RP for? Some wicked fun threads about sitting in the library?

High school was boring as crap. I don't understand anyone who would willingly go back to that time and re-invest a bunch of energy into it. I've never been interested in any sort of high school RP for exactly that reason. The one or two teenagers I've ever played, I barely touched upon their high school lives at all. Booooooo-ring.

Ditto what you guys said. What else are you going to RP? I'm not sure I understand the appeal of any of those types of RPs, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

Point is, they're out there. If you're not interested in them, avoid them and join something else.

(P.S. come on, the library is ROCKIN'!)

Well there's always other drama you could play out
"i caght x and x kissing in the hallway, he's cheating on you"
and sometimes school events are interesting.

^ Oh dear Lord Dx Like, whatever floats your boat, but I would die of boredom if I ever RP'd at a place where the best thing I could look forward to was threading a gym-room DANCE or something. Good God those were barely any fun when I was living them.

Kissing is a sexual act. People like to somehow put walls between "just kissing or touching" and actually sex - but it's a sliding progression and a kiss can be more intimate than sex. Kissing is a sexual act, people do it because it's arousing. Plus, how long can you play kissing until that gets boring and you have to go further?

...I'm kind of inclined that's to say what non-Hogwarts (and even then...) rpgs are often for. I mean if you're going to play teenagers in a confined location it's going to happen. Or at the very least, attempt to happen.

I have seen an overemphasis on sex not only on school RPs but RL ones as well. This is why I don't play them. Sure, those things are nice once in awhile, but does it have to be every thread? This drives me up the wall. Is there not ANYTHING else to write about? I'm getting to the point where I wouldn't care if a character told me everything about themselves including what they ate for breakfast as long as the thread wasn't about sex. Ugh!

And yeah, someone seeing X cheating on Y is fun!

I've also noticed some vetern rp players who just done 'the dirty' so many times they just fade to black cause its uninteresting XD
I totally agree with you Joelle though. There's other things to write about besides sex =/

Ride a vacuum cleaner home in the absence of your car, like Sabrina the Teenage Witch did.
Command your homework to do itself. Then watch.
Turn your profs into toads if they assign too much homework.. (I'd love to see that!)

And that's just the magic stuff.

Non magic:

Have sleepovers (non-sexual ones) in your dorm. With pillow fights. And popcorn. And pizza. And a movie.

Have someone jump out a window for the sheer stupidity of it.

Go to jail for something. You'll find out you like school better than juvie.

I'm noticing a trend of sex as a side to everything. Harry potter. Twilight. Futuristic. Anthropomorphic.

I'm tired of it. But that's why we have [M] labels, right?
I stopped reading them when I discovered free streaming adult-video sites.

Oh, man, this thread makes me grateful for my happy little sexless boarding school RP. I don't wander the RP world very much, so every time I'm reminded what RL rps are usually like I'm always amazed that I somehow managed to stumble directly onto the only one that I'd be happy in. Because I actually really like RL rping? For me, setting is really secondary to characters and plot, and a no-brainer setting like a boarding school frees me up to pay attention to the fun stuff (like wannabe journalists stalking TOTALLY DRUG DEALERS at the mall) instead of worrying over stuff that's less important to me (like what slang was around in the 18th century or whether my description of a space restaurant sounds inaccurate). That said, I can't imaaagine how boring it would be if I had to focus on what actual teenagers do in actual boarding schools. HECK YEAH, LET'S THREAD A GROUP PROJECT IN BIOLOGY CLASS! Boinkin' in the library would probably start to look pretty appealing.

(Also, how does dorm sex even work? Are all the rooms coed and private, or do all the characters just happen to be REALLY GOOD at sneaking in at times when their four or five roommates aren't in?)

(Also also, oh man, I wanna write a sleepover now. You could even work defenestration in and kill two birds with one stone. Pillow fights can get ugly.)

Ditto-ing what most people have already said. For RL boarding school RP, there's only so much you can get up to. And while school events and teenage angst/drama are fun, there's a limit on how often these sorts of threads can happen before they get repetitive or ridiculous (maybe I'm strange but I've never heard of a school having a major event once a week). Although reasonably the same could be said about sex, but I suppose it's what a lot of people's minds go to when they think of teenagers kept in close quarters with each other without much else to do besides hanging out or schoolwork.

That's why I personally prefer adding fantasy or sci-fi elements to any boarding school RP; that and I really have no desire to go re-do my high school years again. It gives you more things to do and can make even doing mundane things like homework more fun. Plus when you're throwing around magic or mutant powers, even sex can become something more interesting than just... sex (my favorite example of this, I play a pyrokinetic student on an X-Men site. His powers are closely tied to his emotional state so whenever he gets too 'happy' he occasionally sets stuff on fire. This has made things very interesting for his girlfriend and him, to the point where they haven't even had sex yet because they're still trying to work out the logistics of it)

I think you'd be looking for a long time, Chele....

Maaaaaaaaaaaybe that is a good plan, Chele! See a need, fill a need? It sounds like an awesome idea.