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You're right @CaliBrat! I often play gay teenage boys in (usually) successful relationships. (They're usually successful because, to be honest, my game is idealistic and utopian.) But if another boy had made a serious gay approach to me when I was a teen, I'd almost certainly have rejected him. I'd have done so because in those days I thought homosexuality was wrong, and anyway it was illegal. But afterwards I'd likely have regretted the rejection, especially if the approach was from a boy I really liked. I'd wonder about what might have been. Romantic interactions and feelings can be many-faceted, and it's wrong of me to over-simplify things.
It's almost true that my Sims made me gay! They certainly helped me to accept myself as I really am. Andrew in Veronaville lives a life that I now wish I could have lived. But the moral and social climate in modern Veronaville is much, much more open and accepting than it was half a century ago in Scotland. Of course it's much better today, but even now I don't see real teenage boys openly kissing each other in the street the way that Andrew and his friends do. I fear it's literally true that I live my love life vicariously through my Sims!!
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