IIRC the Realm's main answers to sexuality for Dragonblooded is driven by:
-You can't force significant numbers of Exalted to do something without it backfiring. You can incentivize them, but anything involving force has to have an overwhelming degree of of willing buy in.
--Thus the lack of breeding camps, because the Dragonblooded in question have Opinions.
--Thus the acceptance of nonstandard sexuality and partners, since if you push them hard enough they can and will just leave.
--Expect a general "Yes, but you have to do X for that" strategy. It keeps the exalts busy in constructive rather than destructive ways.
-You always need more dynasts of good Breeding.
--Thus its socially expected for dynastic dragonblooded to make babies with other dynastic dragonblooded where possible, or at least some well bred Patricians if not.
--Thus the poor Breeding Lost Eggs and the like are subtly encouraged to join the army or Immaculates. Sure the Realm always needs more Dragonblooded, but it prefers that such Dragonblooded be in their dynastic houses for political stability reasons.
--The Neomah option is less popular than it seems because while people are quite readily equipped to have lots of conventional sex, sorcery is uncommon even amongst the elites, and a pound of flesh is quite a painful chunk even if you can heal that.
-The Realm is spread out enough that enforcement by both social and direct means is a crapshoot.
--Thus it doesn't try to impose rules and expectations it can't actually expect to enforce.
--Thus the acceptance of adoption as a solution, it can't actually check whether the kid is yours when there could be a year between visits, and allowing adoption at least means the Breeding genealogies stay clear and coherent.
Not too complicated, realpolitik wise.
-You can't force significant numbers of Exalted to do something without it backfiring. You can incentivize them, but anything involving force has to have an overwhelming degree of of willing buy in.
--Thus the lack of breeding camps, because the Dragonblooded in question have Opinions.
--Thus the acceptance of nonstandard sexuality and partners, since if you push them hard enough they can and will just leave.
--Expect a general "Yes, but you have to do X for that" strategy. It keeps the exalts busy in constructive rather than destructive ways.
-You always need more dynasts of good Breeding.
--Thus its socially expected for dynastic dragonblooded to make babies with other dynastic dragonblooded where possible, or at least some well bred Patricians if not.
--Thus the poor Breeding Lost Eggs and the like are subtly encouraged to join the army or Immaculates. Sure the Realm always needs more Dragonblooded, but it prefers that such Dragonblooded be in their dynastic houses for political stability reasons.
--The Neomah option is less popular than it seems because while people are quite readily equipped to have lots of conventional sex, sorcery is uncommon even amongst the elites, and a pound of flesh is quite a painful chunk even if you can heal that.
-The Realm is spread out enough that enforcement by both social and direct means is a crapshoot.
--Thus it doesn't try to impose rules and expectations it can't actually expect to enforce.
--Thus the acceptance of adoption as a solution, it can't actually check whether the kid is yours when there could be a year between visits, and allowing adoption at least means the Breeding genealogies stay clear and coherent.
Not too complicated, realpolitik wise.
