Life Hacks/Determining value used for sex
This is the guide to determining witch of the 6 available values, Fear, Submission, Friendship, Trust, Familial love or Romantic love is used to determine whether or not someone will consent to a sex act. Afterward is what happens if you fall short of the required value and push for the sex act anyway, because this is the most appropriate place to do so due to reactions differing by the value being used to obtain consent.
Determining the applicable value
There is a 4 tier priority system as to what attribute is used to determine whether or not a sex act can be performed with an individual without them resisting. They are as follows, and take priority from top to bottom.
Submissiveness and grooming
The effects of submissiveness are limited to whether or not the partner is groomed to accept the sex act. If grooming is skipped, their resistance to sexual advances via the submission route will not be the same. It will require +20 the listed values for each grooming level that has not been achieved before reaching this intensity. (so mild sex acts have scores in the 80-100 range if the two grooming levels for benign and dismissable sex acts are skipped.) If they are "aclimated," the short and incomplete version of grooming, it is +10 instead of +20 for a level they have been aclimated to.
Note: Having a sex partner submit to a sex act is not the same as them giving consent. Submission and consent look more or less the same from the outside, but inside someone who submitted but did not consent will very much dislike that they are having this sex act performed on them. This does not necessarily mean a negative impact will result, but it is possible depending on the factors involved.
Fear can substitute for submission if fear meets the required level but submissiveness does not. In this case, the grooming method is not required but the partner that is made to submit through fear never considers it a consensual act regardless of whether or not any other score fits the requirements. This will always lower friendliness/raise enemy values, and may have other negative consequences. (being made to submit through fear will raise submissiveness levels.) Fear takes priority over submissiveness.
If fear or submissiveness do not exceed the required values, use the next means of calculation to determine if they permit this sex act.
Partner is 14 or younger
Actually, it is somewhere between 13 and 16 that these methods change over, but the hard mid-line will be called at 14 for the sake of simplicity. A child does not connect sex and romance. To a child, romance means fairy tale wedding, being happy together, calling each other by affectionate names, and having children. Having children is not connected to sex for them either, but if they are aware that is how babies are made then a romance level of 10 is all that is needed to convince them to have vaginal intercourse so long as the other required scores are met.
Children under 14 use trust and friendship as their determining scores for whether or not they will permit a sex act, and trust is the more dominant of these two factors. Friendship must be at least 1/2 the value in question, and trust must meet or exceed the value. Also, children with a body shame level of 50% or greater must be aclimatized or groomed before they will accept a moderate or hard-core sex act easily. (1st and 2nd levels of grooming can be skipped.) Without grooming or aclimation, values for moderate sex acts will be increased by 20 and hard-core sex acts by 40.
If the child's trust level is lower than that required, there is a 5 point wiggle room for every 10 points of submissiveness they have with you. They can be pressured into this sex act if they are within the wiggle room afforded by their submission. They will regard it as a consensual act, but they will also feel they were put upon to do something they didn't want to.
Note: If familial love meets or exceeds the value for the sex act, the required trust value is reduced by the difference. Familial love does not substitute for trust, but it does make it significantly easier. If romantic love exceeds the required value, the trust requirement is halved.
If partner is 15 or older, use the next method to calculate consent.
Partner is 15 or older and has aberrant view on sex
- Views sex as casual and not involved with romance (Personality Trait)
Different from the disconnect that children have between romance and sex. They simply do not think that romance is needed for sex. Substitutes "friendly" value for romance value, and subtracts 50 from moderate and hard-core sex act requirements. (other requirements remain the same.) Other than this, it functions exactly the same as if romance was the measure.
- Has an incest fetish (Personality Trait)
It is not just an incest preference, it is a fetish, and this means that the desire for sex is no longer tied to romance. Substitutes familial love score for romantic love score. Will have sex with someone they regard as being "like family," but a -20 value is applied to all sex acts if they actually are blood related.
If neither of these two traits are active, use the next method to calculate consent.
Partner is 15 or older and has normal view on sex
This is the standard method of acquiring consent. This method applies if none of the above 2 factors are present.
For someone who is 15 or older, there are some blurred lines between love and lust. The only real effective difference between the two for whether or not they will submit to a sex act though is how they will behave in the middle of the sex act. The romantic love score is the only factor measured in determining whether or not consent is achieved, and there is a little bit of wiggle room unlike with the above two categories. The partner will not be comfortable with a sex act unless they meet the required score, but if romance is being used as the measure then it can be as much as 10 points below and they will still consent.
Results of consent Vs. non-consent
If a sex act is attempted but none of the applicable values are high enough (fear, submissiveness, or the applicable value from the 4 other options,) they do not permit that sex act and physical force has to be used. This is always regarded as non-consensual.
Submission due to fear
If they submit to the sex act due to fear, it is always regarded as non-consensual. Since the fear stat is given the highest priority of any value on the list, this means that they will not consent even if their romantic love score is 100 if fear exceeds the act they are submitting to.
Sex with 15+ year old
If romance or one of the 2 trait triggered substitutes for those 15 or older are used, exceeding the value = full consent. However, if it is below the requirement but falls within 10 they will still consent, but the consent will be given hesitantly and they will feel uncomfortable with the act.
Sex with child 14 and under
If trust is used for a child 14 and under, exceeding the required value = consent to the act, although they may still consider that they shouldn't be doing this. They will only feel they were not forced to do it and that they are choosing to be "naughty" in participating in this sex act of their own will.
If they fall short of the value to obtain full consent but they are submissive to the one trying to get them to perform a sex act, there is a degree of wiggle room of 5 points for every 10 points of submissiveness. If they fall within the wiggle-room buffer zone created by that range, they can be pressured into the sex act. If this is done, they will not identify themselves as having been raped, molested, or otherwise that something bad had happened to them, but they will feel they were forced to do something they didn't want to do. However, they will not hold it against the one who forced them. (even if physical force was used.)
Submission due to submissiveness
If submissiveness is used to get someone to allow a sex act, whether or not they regard it as consensual depends on the appropriate other value out of the 4 conditional values. (Trust, Friendlines, or familial or romantic love,) If submissiveness exceeds the value, they will always permit the sex act in question, but if the appropriate value does not also exceed it then they will feel they were forced to do something they did not want to do, and how they react to that depends on just how much the value fell short of the requirement.
If the required value falls short by less than 10, then they feel uncomfortable but do not ultimately take it in a negative way.
If the required value falls short by more than 10 but less than 30, they feel they were forced to do something they didn't want to do but will not identify it with the terms "rape," "Sexual assult," or "molestation" even with the terms presented to them. They will feel it was somehow your right to use their body against their will in that way and will not hold it against you even if you used physical force.
If the required value falls short by between 30 and 40, they will not come up with criminalizing terms such as "rape" or "sexual assault" on their own, but can be persuaded to look at it that way if someone points it out to them. They will feel what you did was wrong, but they will not be able to form the objection in their own mind.
If the value falls short by 41 or greater, they regard what you did to them as wrong and will call it "rape" or "sexual assault" on their own if they know the concept of those terms. What action they take as a result of regarding it like this though is a different issue entirely. If their submissiveness score is 90% or higher, they will not take any intentional steps to make it stop in the future. (A toddler may talk about what you did to them, but only if they have no concept in their mind that doing so will get you in trouble. If their mind is developed enough to be aware of this, they won't even try to tell someone about it even without you having to tell them as much.)