The neotenics were a relevant sleeve at the beginning, because of their design being focused on low resource needings. The twist into sex spectacle? kinda... actual. I mean, we can be sure that there is porn of ALL and more sleeves in EP. But only neotenics get the hairy eye, in a society where children are common only in mars, the Jovian republic and maybe Venus and the Moon... so... Personally, I don't really care. I'm more of a Galatea/Masked Synth.

ORCACommander wrote:

I am among similar line as Lask. I would be willing to try almost anything at least once. as for societal interaction, we would need damn good safeguards for us to know when we are dealing with a neotenic and a genuine child

AR ID tags is what I used last time I ran an EP campaign.

To put it another way, "Live, Let Live" is a fundamental rule in a society. Its not good for a society to be at war with itself. Having each other's back, ability to trust one another, the ability to be fair to each other is what allows society to prosper. It allows one to devote more time to their craft and to specialize, instead of having to devote time to protect oneself.

It's actually particularly hard for humans who are brought up with the concept that "Children are a nono thing!" when it comes to a lot of stuff. However, in the future it would only be somewhat difficult to tell the difference between children or adults within neotenic bio-morphs. However, this is where the IDs come in handy. If the individual within the bio-morph is an of an 'adult age' as an Ego, then what can you say? This obviously wouldn't apply to AIs and uplifts either, since their age issues are not similar in the slightest. It's generally the idea that children aren't emotionally capable of dealing with it, aren't capable of making informed choices, and are very often taken advantage off that causes it to be such a serious taboo. Remove all the mental capacity issues that comes with being a child, and you remove most of what exists as a problem. The only other one that exists in the physical capabilities, which are nullified by the fact that the body can be engineered to bypass those difficulties. It would simply be keeping an eyeball on who is and isn't really a child. I'm sure there will always be a social stigma about it with groups of individuals, but at the same time.. there's so many insane things that'll be going on, I doubt it would be stigmatized by everyone forever.

Kinda, sorta, yeah. It's about mental development in general. There are children who develop faster and some slower. I've seen a 12 year old with a better understanding of relationships than a 40 year old because of the way they were raised and educated about everything correctly. Some countries have fewer issues than others because children aren't kept in the dark about adult processes and left to be victimized by the people around them. It's shocking how it can change things. The muse can help too, of course. IDs help as well, you can even use a monitor module and other such devices. But yeah, I don't see it being an issue really. Since people can easily slot into almost any morph... And a lot of people might even have their preferred sleeve sitting around for their prostitute to slot into (or themselves.) during the fun times.