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Hard Takes Soft, Still

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It's not just about sex, though, it's whether the characters enjoy being in their bodies and experiencing the sensory world, or mostly want to get rid of them and be rarified mind-entities swimming in seas of thought.

I think these are both legitimate attitudes. It's easier to like being embodied when you're young, and especially if you're physically adroit and attractive. Most of the people I've known who really wanted to be disembodied minds or cyber-beings had perfectly understandable reasons for it, such as untreatable chronic pain.

But there are subgenres and subcultures that are skewed one way or another.