All the times when I read River, I remember it's a pseudonym very used
   in sites of sex stories about BDSM or to contact eventual sexual
   partners.  The same about Rain, Forest and other nicknames like these.
   I don't know if it was just a coincidence, a bad joke or if it is their
   nature, their sexual preference.

   Well, usually, a vanilla person would not choose this kind of
   pseudonym, but I really don't care about their sexual practices.  I
   just think it's very fun see chaste, immaculate, innocent vanilla
   people using hardcore BDSM nicks.  Really hypocrite, considering that
   Jake, in some moments, was judged for his sexuality, not for his
   character.

   I am late with some really important answers, but as I told to a
   contact some days later, and repeated to another person today, Jake
   always respected me and all my female friends a lot, acting like a real
   gentleman and, believe me, some of them are beautiful women and tried
   to flirt with him hardly.  :P

   He was a very handsome, charismatic, sexy, famous, intelligent man,
   walking among lots of all kinds of activists, men and women, in several
   events around the whole world.  Very glamorous.  Becoming one of his
   lovers or girlfriends was a way of increasing social status, so he
   really refused a lot of crazy invasive people to avoid problems and
   being related to these people.  He could have sex very easily, in all
   the places and parties, without "raping" someone.

   I saw it happening in person.  He was very professional and gentle,
   refusing more intimate contacts in a polite and discreet way.  He
   rejected one of my personal friends in a Brazilian event and she is a
   young intelligent woman, much more beautiful and interesting than me.
   It is strange for a 'serial rapist', a crazy psychopath, isn't it?  :-/

   Well, let's wait to discover what will happen.  There are lots of
   things that simply don't make sense in all this drama.  It would not be
   rational or reasonable.

   Kisses and hugs for all of you!  :*  <3

   Ceci

   PS:  -  Ah, a silly curiosity!  One of "Rivers" liked a lot to write
   about incest and bestiality, hardcore taboo themes in general, but I
   really liked her writing style, so I tried to contact her to ask about
   the choice of her pseudonym.

   I never received an answer, but it was an interesting experience.  I
   think this River in special is a girl, not a guy, and she is very
   intelligent.  Their stories are very disturbing  -  too 'eeck!!!' for
   my taste, ugh!  -, but are intelligent and she got some archetypical
   desires, with subtle references to Greek legends.  She is not a stupid
   girl trying to get audience.  (Different of the j.a. group members'
   initial pattern, haha!!)

   Well, sex with animals is not vegan, but all the people are animals and
   I suppose her "lovers", if really exist, receive a good treatment.  ;)