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sexuality_change is a rarely-used tag with the following wiki description:
When a character gains or loses attraction to one or more genders.
The description for orientation_play is much broader, but in practice the two seem to be synonymous. gay_to_straight and straight_to_gay both imply orientation_play but not sexuality_change.
Do we need sexuality_change? Does anyone here use it over orientation_play?
As someone who doesn't follow those tags nor read the wikis, have my intuitive insight on how the tags come across:
Change typically implies a degree of permanence that play doesn't.
As in, that orientation_play could lead to sexuality_change ('guess I like that after all') or could reinforce the characters orientation ('NEVER AGAIN!')
The implication also wouldn't hold up the other way round either.
There's an overlap, but no clear logical order.
Permanence is harder to display than 'just fooling around', so that might cause the disparity in numbers.
fuzzygears said:
As someone who doesn't follow those tags nor read the wikis, have my intuitive insight on how the tags come across:
Change typically implies a degree of permanence that play doesn't.
As in, that orientation_play could lead to sexuality_change ('guess I like that after all') or could reinforce the characters orientation ('NEVER AGAIN!')
The implication also wouldn't hold up the other way round either.
There's an overlap, but no clear logical order.Permanence is harder to display than 'just fooling around', so that might cause the disparity in numbers.
We already have a permanent tag for permanent changes. If sexuality_change is just orientation_play +permanent I'm not sure it's necessary. (Most orientation_play posts currently imply a permanent change anyway.)
