pushes up glasses and clears throat (rant, sorry but not sorry)

Actually proper ERP requires some amount of set-up (whether character sheets that both look at or a short discussion or both), the conceit that people are playing characters (sometimes even in third person) whereas cybering is kind of spontaneous and first person, based purely around the direct imagination of things being done to you the person and you doing things to the person you’re typing at and rarely gets above a couple sentences per reply and doesn’t tend to take place outside of the immediate realm of the possible such as one party’s home or some other mundane and immediately accessible location.

Sexting IMO is just cybering with the added strong likelihood that media (visual and/or audio) of one or both parties is exchanged during the act to further it and the strong likelihood that both parties know each other in real life.

The difference between erotic roleplay and cybering is like the difference between your partner just coming up to you and starting to stroke your thigh while touching themselves and both of you agreeing an hour ahead of time to a pirate-themed dress-up occasion where you put effort into speaking like one between dirty talk and maybe use a prop or two before getting to the sex while remaining in-character.

In some cases I’d argue it’s even more abstracted as not all people ERP purely for the purpose of immediate/imminent sexual gratification or amusement (some use it for practice writing for instance or to explore some kink or concept like a collaborative 2-person romance novel whereas cybering is pretty shallow and let’s be honest focused on the immediate sexual act and fulfillment without much consideration to anything else)

A lot of people who talk of ERP are doing laughably disguised cybering.

-signed, a frustrated roleplayer tired of people who think “I put on my robe and wizard hat, I stroke your thigh, you moan” is the same as actual roleplay (even of the erotic variety). There are people who ERP to get off no doubt, it’s quite common I’m sure but it is just the same a writing and creative roleplay endeavor whereas there’s little creative thinking or ROLE-playing behind writing how you’re pumping and going for broke with someone without context, story, setting outside of the reality you inhabit and as in your head yourself not a character. You’re role-playing in that situation in the same way you’re acting when you behave as yourself with others, you’re acting as yourself so no one could really call it that or call you an actor of any skill or suppose you doing it lends itself to furthering your acting ability.

That seems like a real problem given they are a people being actively subjected to genocide which is being censored and distorted by western media, who have their land stolen, their existence denied, and been subjected to apartheid sponsored by the most powerful nation in the world (the US no less) in flagrant violation of international law for over half a century. Abuses and genocide carried out by a regime so powerful, so important to US interests that there are multiple states in the US where you can lose your job or your business contract for simply voicing support for boycotting and divesting from the apartheid regime that is an illegal colonization and occupation of stolen land by radical far-right reactionary ethno-fascists operating under the cloak of religion. Most major western media are some degree of complicit in giving one-sided pro-apartheid state slants, omitting key details, and using dishonest framing to attempt to deceive the public and manufacture apathy and complicity.

It doesn’t fucking censor swear words. You can say shit and ass and damn. It censors slurs and offensive terms to historically marginalized groups only. It’s just some of them are still so prevalent in our language that people take umbrage to this.