Question for Shannon About AM/SM

[Shannon]

There are concepts in AM that would be quite unreasonable for a gay man, or woman for that matter, to be programmed with. Those concepts are there because the program was designed with straight men in mind originally, and later I created a version for gay men as well. I have never seen much in the way of sales for the gay version of AM, and bisexuals are as far as I know an even smaller group. I honestly did not expect it to become an issue because I did not think it would ever be that popular. The labels are there to protect those who may be inadvertently exposed who are not interested in women. Consider a college dorm where one person plays it for the rest, but one or more of his roomies is gay. That sort of thing.

I will have to account for all sexual identities or remove the need. If I remove the need, it will fundamentally alter the structure of the core, since gender relations is a major theme in the script. Relating to women, not just in terms of sex or romance, but in terms of masculine versus feminine. It seems that if I remove that, it will weaken the program's core. So to account for that I would have to create something that is specifically for bisexuals. The question is, would the amount of time it takes me to do that produce sufficient returns to be worth the time?

In the next version of AM, I will certainly be taking this into account in some manner. For the current version, though, I cannot say I am sure it is going to produce sufficient return on investment of time.