Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.154.24-20130913002452/@comment-173.60.95.163-20131030182431

Alzrius wrote:

Angren Túrë wrote:

BenRG wrote: Zourin wrote:

With only 5 minutes per week, do we *really* want a dissertation on Beacon's cohabing policy ...or... watch more story/comedy/badassery? I think that it could be possible to have a 'blink and you'll miss it' comment to the effect that there just isn't the taboo about mixed gender shared rooms on Vytal as there is on Earth.

Or maybe a moment where a half-naked girl asks one of the guys to choose between blouses; no-one blinks an eye. It just isn't an issue, espeically not for Hunters and Huntresses who could reasonably be expected to spend weeks and months sharing tight accommodations out in the field. Agreed. I think that attending Beacon necessitates a certain level of professionalism and maturity. Bottom line is, you're going to be going into situations with a very real possibility of death with these people--if you can do that, sharing a room with them should be the least of your problems. That's a fairly credible line of inductive reasoning. However, that line of reasoning seems to be more focused towards administrative policy rather than the actual issues regarding having teenagers of different sexes living together. In other words, that's probably how the staff of Beacon considers the issue; whether or not that's how things actually are for the students is something else again.

Ruby notwithstanding, the main cast members (e.g. the remaining members of Team RWBY, and all of Team JNPR) are all seventeen years old. Notwithstanding criticisms of causation versus correlation in regards to brain imaging, current studies indicate that while the late teens is when the hypothalamus and front lobe of the cerebral cortex (the areas responsible for self-control, risk analysis, and delayed gratification, among other things) finish most of their complex development, and full development does not finish until around age twenty-five.

Further, the idea that facing life-or-death situations will encourage greater responsible behavior is misplaced. To the contrary, fear is likely to cause misattribution of arousal instead, actually encouraging greater sexual tension between teammates, rather than discouraging it. While habituation may cause this stimulus to fade after repeated exposure, that still requires repeated exposure that can have strong initial results, for an indeterminate length of time.

Casting further doubt on the idea that the students of Beacon are simply too responsible to have sex is that we can abduce that they've had very little sexual education (which has been found to reduce sexual intercourse in teenagers versus having no sexual education). Remember, seventeen is the starting age for students at Beacon, and that's following a presumed four-year course in a combat school.

The line of reasoning is thus: we can presume that a school devoted to combat would de-emphasize non-martial areas of education. Likewise, even taking into account their use of aura powers and abilities, the graduates of combat schools have insane combat prowess (as demonstrated in the fifth through eighth episodes). A comparison to Olympic athletes is probably the closest probable parallel, and Olympic athletes have heavy training regimens. Ergo, this leaves little time for formal education in other areas (though, to be fair, exercise does increase learning ability in people). The analogy becomes even more persuasive when you note that the Olympic Village for the Games is a hotbed of sex.

This is leaving aside the issue that there's no evidence suggesting that trying to convince teenagers to remain abstinent voluntarily has not been shown to be effective.

It's therefore not unreasonable to assume that the students of Beacon are having a lot of clandestine sex. Sadly, unless it's part of Beacons policy to hand out condoms to students, there's also probably more than a few unwanted pregnancies as well, which would disproportionally disenfranchise the female student population (though there's no way to say to what percentage, since that'd require demographic information that we don't have at this point).

Given that, while the staff of Beacon may hope that their students are exercising responsibility and restraint over their libidos, it's far and away more likely that a significant part of the student body is getting it on. I like this guy. He has made a convincing argument.

And personally, I think that if the staff was aware some students might be messing around, they'd probably hand out those things. I'd say the best bet to go with is that teachers patrol the area to make sure that's not happening. I wouldn't know.

Lack of restraint leads to problems. Pregnant hunters out on the front lines or ones with...unique diseases probably aren't the greatest canidates for taking on the Grimm. This goes either way though, if the perseon doesn't want to be on the lines, they could fake a disease (preferably the flu, not an exotic disease). And at the same time, if  they do want to be on the lines, being assigned to a support role because they're expecting/have an exotic/not so exotic disease could be aggravating.

All in all, I hope that MOST of the students are restraining themselves. God/Dust/Any Entity you believe in invented "self-service" for a reason. Which said reason was to...uh, hopefully remove one's desire for at least a small amount of time.

So the ones who are really desperate to get laid must be doing that every day or something like that.

All in all, I'm hoping that JNPR excersises restraint in their room when they start to let their...alternate weaponry take over. Ren probably has no problem, Nora, I wouldn't be so sure about it, the bouncy oddball with that much energy and a close relationship with Ren could go either way, and Pyrrha's outfit doesn't leave much to the imagination, insinuating other students may be thinking things that are better left unsaid about her, and Jaune...make a guess.

Happy Halloween.