First, Snow_Fox..I love seeing someone who does their homework on the theory.
I like to incorporate RL practices into my games as well, partly for the believability
(When you have someone do a spell where the practices, if not the actual details,
are drawn from actual workings, it makes it more believable, and makes it easier
to answer player questions), and partly because it is what I know, and so what,
when I am trying to think of something, where my first thoughts go(I GM on the fly).

That said, Tyro, I see some potential issues over all with the idea in practice. First,
I would have to ask are they all the same(or similar traditions)? If not(or even if so),
what Tradition are they? A Wiccan would have a different approach then one following
a more Egyptian tradition and both would be different from someone following
Christian Theurgy or Chaos Magic. From there, I wonder other details, like how open minded
are your players? Do they know this is what you are planning? I ask because this is the sort
of thing that can make a player potentially uncomfortable. Also, where do you play? If you
play at home, that makes things different then if you play out in public. And how graphic do
you expect to get in game? I know that, given where I play(at my FLGS), I could never run
a game like this.(That and even if I could, I would have one player who would likely have his
head explode..poor guy leads a really sheltered life...did not even know what the Blue Oyster bar
was!)

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I would have trouble using it with a combat spell, the ulitmate act of life targeting death- and illusion but information spells-sending out a spell to draw in information-and manipulation would seem like a good base too. Not the violent ones like flamethrower- but mental controls? Sure as the powerfully enhanced ermotions of the caster overwhelms the target.

That's a bit dark; I want him to be a nice guy for the most part.

In my defense, this IS a game with penile implants, breast implants, and the Orgasm/Orgy spells in official sourcebooks ^_^

..poor guy leads a really sheltered life...did not even know what the Blue Oyster bar
was!)

I just want to know where this club is located... I want to join!

The traditions are different, but they're all part of the same magical group. One's a Gardnerian Wiccan Magician, and the others are Adepts (combat monster & face). Without going into too much detail, my players will have no problem with detailed and/or graphic descriptions of the acts in question.

Not sure what path my adept (he's the combat monster) is taking, but with Improved Reflexes III and combat sense, he seems more a warrior than anything... Maybe a warrior of love?

Speaking as a player of one of these group members, I can say that although I'm not particularly afraid of explicitly detailing what my character is doing, I may end up freezing up from a lack of proper description. Been out of practice for role playing in general.

Not sure what path my adept (he's the combat monster) is taking, but with Improved Reflexes III and combat sense, he seems more a warrior than anything... Maybe a warrior of love?

And a 'quick shot'!

And a 'quick shot'!

Quick is right. He dual wields high velocity assault rifles when things get wooly. And I mean the kind that shoots lead bullets.

I was going to say, only reptiles dual wield!

...*about to speak*...

I think I'll just leave that one alone.

What about a Free Spirit that encourages sharing of karma via sex rituals?

- J.

*.nirglivE*

I also see I've been sigged. Yay!

That particular comment tickled me enough to be my first signaturee on DS. Congratulations.

That's kind of how I intended it at the time.

You mean I've been sig-sniped!?

The owner of the club (and patron of the magical group) is Eduardo, a F7 free spirit of man. I gave him Glamour (as per Dryads) and Symbiosis (ditto, but only pertaining to the club). He can't leave the premises; I'm not sure why yet.

Isn't Eduardo a reference to that cartoon about the blue imaginary friend they show on Cartoon Network?

But hey, let's focus on some fun stuff that you can do. Geasa are discussed above, and perfectly fine - many magicians had strange sexual norms and mores, and if you want to be more Rasputin than celibant, that's your deal. On a more practical side, the ceremonial sex rituals provide a good justification for enhanced ritual magic - perhaps a way to have more participants without having anyone know the Great Ritual metamagic.

To further built on what AH wrote it would not just be limited to health spells. Historically sex magic in a group setting was used for fertility of the land. Crops and the like. SR has built on this and since the goal is to raise power it could expand far beyond health spells. Those are the most common- fertility could be intepretted as healing sick/wounded. I would have trouble using it with a combat spell, the ulitmate act of life targeting death- and illusion but information spells-sending out a spell to draw in information-and manipulation would seem like a good base too. Not the violent ones like flamethrower- but mental controls? Sure as the powerfully enhanced ermotions of the caster overwhelms the target.

It almost appears that sex magic could be a minor version of the blood magic rituals used during the Great Ghost Dance. In the Atzlan sourcebook, Jaguar indicated that they were doing rituals to revitalize the Amazonian forests without using Blood Magic that would cause another mana spike. Could they have been doing sex magic rituals?

Frag that.

We're discussing it in a mature way with the actual intent of using it in a game. Freedom of speech. What do you think we are, Christians?

Sexual Earth Healing?

Tangent: When I read this topic the first thing that came to mind was George RR Martin's Wild Cards' character, Fortunato. Kind of a magic / supers guy that derived his power via tantric sex.

Wow - there have been 15 novels in the series? I read the first 4 or 5 waaaay back in the day when it first came out and then with school / life / etc. kinda lost track. Guess they kept pumping them out over the years. Might have to see if they ever came out in ebook / kindle or something.