In regards to the discussion of bimbos a few pages back, my opinion is rather similar to irioth, who I've seen post a bit, in that I find literally everything except for the intelligence loss/subservience appealing. I really enjoy the idea of an intelligent, confident, sex positive character having passionate relationships and being proud of her sexual lifestyle and personality. I like it when writing is "slut" or "whore" positive, and emphasizes empowering sexual fun and agency.
It's a rather big dilemma for me, as some of my favourite content in the game is often directly correlated to content I strongly dislike, emphasized with the "ditz speech" perk.
On one hand, it unlocks lots of flavour text that emphasizes your PC as being sexually talented, often impressing characters with their skill and passion (for a long time it was the only way to be skilled at deep throating). It unlocks expanded sex scenes and more exciting scenarios which emphasize skill, extremely high stamina, and consensual rough loving, such as the really good scenes with Sylvie. It alters certain flavour text to emphasize feminine attributes in subtle ways, you giggle instead of chuckle, sway seductively when you walk, bend at the waist instead of the knees, read about stylish makeup in a magazine, speak in a sultry fashion, get a fun tattoo, and dress up sexily. It makes you more sexually confident in certain scenes and less nervous, and act less shameful about sex, acting rather sex positive, and you often treat other npc's very kindly, caring about how they feel and enjoy themselves during sex scenes.
On the other hand, there is inconsistent, unappealing flavour text which occasionally has npc's mock your characters intelligence, makes you act "stupid", and generally just emphasizes things I find strongly distasteful. I am often able to headcanon or interpret the flavour text of ditz speech in a positive fashion, and that my character is intelligent and sexually confident. Some writing overly pushes the boundaries and makes that very hard to do. I don't at all mind valley girl speech or "ditziness" to an extent (it can be interpreted as Steele seducing the npc or acting coy, and I find the feminine sultry form of speech appealing), and I can also think of it as the player being sexually focused, and while perfectly capable, not desiring to focus on certain activities at the current time. But then that gets conflated with scenes where you aren't able to stand up for yourself or are forced into situations.
An example is Lund, although I don't personally have interest in male characters, in how this goes. You get fun, sexually engaging writing, sexy times during the talk scenes, and an exciting rough scene. You also get actively insulted by Lund outside of a sexual roleplay context, you don't get to stand up for yourself or prove your intelligence, and get forced into a sex scene, which while being a good scene, means you miss out on a lot of his other content, including not being allowed to be dominant if you want to roleplay a sex positive smart bimbo.
This extends to npc's too, I headcanon Ellie, Celise and Amma as being intelligent and sexually confident (maybe they have degrees like Stella?), because I really like them as characters and love all their scenes, except for the idea that their intelligence was forcefully hampered or that they are depressingly limited by things outside of their control. I also love Slab's treated girls and Stella because of this, because you get all the sexy fun, while the content is tied together by a positive message about consent and intelligence.
It seems like Fenoxo is somewhat aware of this too, with the way the codex entries allow all the different forms of bimbofication to be ambiguous, allowing you to roleplay the characters as still being intelligent, (as well as him coining the term Nymphobrainiac on twitter), but then Mitzi comes along with a heavily emphasis on her supposedly being unintelligent (or, as I hope, sexually focused but still intelligent beneath the surface), which makes it a lot harder to headcanon, especially since there is an entire hypnosis scene revolving around Steele becoming "stupid".
So yeah basically due to there being numerous different writers and my interest being very specific and niche (including only liking female/herm npcs or sexual content), I'm pretty much screwed. I hope CoC 2 and future Trials writing allows a bit more flexibility in smart bimbos.
I knew stuff like that would be a pain in the ass to actually put into the game, and changing people against their will would piss lots of them off, so I made it a dream.
