Hello all!

"Why does Ranma have a sexual reaction whenever he sees Ranko's body?"

I have been dogged by this particular question for over a year, now.  I'm
opening this to public debate because I want to test the feasibility of my
argument.  Anyway, sample C&C on the subject follows: (originator's identity
concealed since I didn't get permission to repost this)

Remember that this Ranma has had a girl's body for several months and
that he's proved to be pretty much unaffected about seeing Akane
and Shampoo naked and very close to (or practically clinging to)
him in that state, so it's pretty unlikely that seeing a little skin
would affect him that much

I've always maintained, in my own mind at least, that Ranma's lack of
reaction to the sight of a naked girl was due to self preservation.  Ranma
is (in many ways) his father's son, and hence he'd hide/stifle/deny any
sexual urges he felt whenever seeing (or getting touched by) Shampoo's,
Ukyou's, and Akane's naked forms to avoid severe trouble.  Given Akane's
explosive reaction whenever she caught him in a compromising position with a
girl, I think it highly likely that his body and mind adopted sexual
neutrality as a survival technique.

Hence, in the CD continuity, when that threat is stripped away, Ranma's body
and mind *should* revert to a more masculine response to feminine nudity.

Also, I would submit that Ranma's curse played hell with his masculinity.
He seems to have perceived himself as weak and unworthy of women's
affections because he was stuck with a girl's body.  That being the case, he
(a) didn't really pay that much attention to the beauty inherent in his
cursed female form, and (b) felt enough of a threat to his psyche from the
curse that he couldn't dredge up enough desire to fire his libido.

(besides he has seen Ranko in much lesser for several times without
being affected, at least more than physical level). Now, I'm not
saying that this shouldn't affect him , at least somewhat (they say
that seeing little bit can affect you more than seeing it all.  Go
figure!), but hardly to this level.

Well, I know that seeing a woman in lingerie arouses my interests far more
quickly than seeing the same woman completely nude.  The expectation of what
might lurk beneath the clothes adds to the attraction for me.  And hence, I
assumed that it would be the same for Ranma.

As for his reaction to Ranko's nudity, well he did have a 'growing'
attraction to her when he saw her in Dr. Tofu's examination room.  It wasn't
intense enough for him to want to take her right there on the table, but it
was an honest, sexual attraction nonetheless.

At this point, I guess I must explain how I could know such a thing.  I
admit that I had a similar reaction to catching my sister (sans towel and
clothes) one day as she came out of the bathroom.  This happened many years
ago (we were both young teens).  The feeling I had in that moment wasn't as
intense as what Ranma has felt for Ranko when he saw her nude, but it was
still there, nonetheless.  In that instant I saw my sister as a pretty, even
sexy, young girl instead of simply being 'my sister.'

Then I remembered that she was my sister, and the revulsion kicked in.

But given that Ranma doesn't have that revulsion programmed into him, and
that incest isn't the taboo in Japan that it is here, I think he'd find it
easier than most brothers to foster an attraction for her.

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I know it's a lot to chew on, but whattaya think, people?



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