meh, I doubt it was. And I'll say more: the "horny stat" as I mentioned is something very simplistic that was used a long time ago. That thing about the stat overflowing was from a game that was released over 20 years ago, IIRC.
I bet they wasted a lot of dev time and created a way more complex model to define the interactions of the NPCs, because they wanted to go "interactions matter" and all that bullshit, and this added complexity is way more prone to have bugs that were hard to get during testing.
