This is something i've seen happen before, but saw it a lot recently when Dead Or Alive Paradise was coming out. Basically some people seem to find it taboo to fantasize about people that don't actually exist (like the DoA girls), whereas some people think that fantasizing about even "real" people that you don't actually know (let's go with Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models as the example here) is also unhealthy, or is at least less healthy than building a relationship with real people in reality, or at least fantasizing about real people (whereas it's okay to fantasize about the chick on the treadmill next to yours, it's not equally okay to do the same to, say, Bar Rafaeli)

So i pose the question to guage the mood at VGChartz: is it all the same? Are there substantive mental health differences between fantasizing about people closer to immediate reality and further away? Does having a fixation on the non-real impede your ability to build healthy relationships with the real? How "non-real" can you go before you get unhealthy?

Personally, i would say that it's all equally harmless, so long as you remain aware of the difference. Equally, i would posit that once you're removed from immediate reality, all things are equally unreal (mostly because unless you're extroardinarily lucky, Bar Rafaeli is equally far from your life as Helena from DoA).

Or to put it graphically:

reality----------------------------------------------------------->------>

So what do you think?

I picked option B

I really don't have anything else to say!

Tits.

Well when it comes to this form, attraction is generally based on what you see considering you can't actually talk to them. So whether it is someone who is real you don't or whether an animated or CG representation of a character, there really isn't much difference on such a base level of attraction. Considering both either look, or in the latter part designed, to be sexy and attractive then it's hard to really make differences aside from the knowledge of creation and natural.

As for fantasizing about those you know and don't know, once again that would all come down to the individual person. On a base level, of course there is no difference. But it would depend how it would affect the individual person. Some might think it inappropriate to fantasize about those they have no personal interaction with or even the polar opposite with those you consider friends. Or some may even have personal issues with fantasizing over those that simply created to be sexy or "cute".


For me personally, there isn't much of a difference between the three. As stated, it is is a base level of attraction (visual appearance) and really there isn't much more involved in it. I don't think it affects any real-life instances, unless one becomes obsessed with fantasy rather than reality. But that would be a personal issues, not necessarily anything reprehensible of the actual process.

Fantasy is fantasy, just don't let the fantasy ruin your perspective. Porn can really put some rediculous expectations on what sex is "supposed" to be, and can make you feel unsatisifed with anything less. So be aware that fantasy =/= reality, unless you are pretty damn lucky. Also, I have to say I enjoyed on a more than normal level the underpants clad fight with Handmaiden in KotOR 2.

Let's say you compare jerking off to real people versus videogame people. In the end, they're both pixels on your computer screen. There's no complicated analysis needed for it. You're not touching, tasting, smelling (etc.) the person on the screen, you're just appreciating their bodies. This can work for real life women as well as videogame women. In the end, you're not getting laid.

I hope that came out better than I thought it did (lol that's what she said).

Lady Gaga so I can secretly fantasize about men at the same time.

well. any female with curves is good with me? if you don't get turned on buy (Assumming the people answering this post is either bi, strate, or lebian) the female persuasion then you may have medical problems. but long story short. if you are attracted to females (Based on the post question) them its perfectly ok. i prefure the real deal though.

I think there needs to be clarification. Are we asking if unrealistic representation (hentai for example) is weird, or if representation of a fictional person weird?

For example:

If we accept that a representation of a real person, realistic or not, is healthy, and if it's a fictional person, it's unhealthy.

Is:

1) A hentai cartoon, of say, Pamela Anderson, is that healthy?

2) A photorealsitic CGI (hyopthetically, it's totally undistinguishable from reality), but of a fictional person, is that unhealthy?

I have gone blind looking at hentai? Is that answer enough?


Its all relative because you can't define a "healthy" human being at least from a mental perspective.