The agenda for the Sex in Videogames conference has been published, and there are some interesting topics up for debate in San Fran this June. From the cultural to the technological, the conference will cover such diverse topics as cybersex, emergent behaviour, technology for realistic simulation and MMOEGs.
This will definitely be one to watch; sex is becoming part of gaming as a specialist genre, as well as becoming integrated into our everyday gaming lives with emergent behaviour. As with other media before it, the human interest in sex is likely to fuel some interesting developments in games -- and not just in the field of "jiggle physics".
[Via Sex & Games]
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Having personally volunteered time to helping high school kids understand and promote healthy relationships, I know which way I would like to see this go.
Likely we will just see this as being an extension of the porn industry…
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The myth is that video games began for 'kiddies' and evolved over time into more 'mature' titles. But video games have always been for adults from Pong to the NES. Only starting in the 16 bit generation did games get so complicated that only kids who grew up with them could follow them.
Now we suddenly need a 'conference' on sex and games as if they are new? Please! I guess Custer's Revenge and Leisure Suit Larry never existed.
This conference is actually a trojan horse to bring sexual politics into video games. That means the five genders, homosexual, transexual, pansexual, all-the-rest sexual labels and everything else.
What is stupid is that games have always had extreme sexuality. Not in intercourse but in elements such as masculinity. Contra III was a very masculine game (which even Maddox still worships). Like the Illiad, many games share that masculine spirit of a hero saving the world or saving the princess. Will the conference study that? Nope. Because to the conference, sexuality is only about intercourse, not about masculinity or feminity.
With many young males not going to college, they are skipping the typical feminist brainwashing. Mark my words: they will attempt to diminish the traditional 'masculine' (and 'feminine' style games) and replace it with the usual hogwash of sexual politics.
Are you guys ready for Brokeback Mountain: The Video Game? It's coming.
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It's good to have a place where all this can be discussed in a reasonable, adult manner, where the people who know about humanity and sexuality can talk to the game developers using it in their games. The conference looks interesting from that angle, too. I just need to figure out a way to attend ;)
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If you indeed feel that way, then you certainly live up to your name. Gays are everywhere, and they're long overdue to pop up in video games in a major way (in major roles, nontheless). Leave the small-minded, midwestern bitching to Fox News, if you would, please.
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And yeah, saying things like "With many young males not going to college, they are skipping the typical feminist brainwashing." completely dissloves whatever point (good or bad) you are trying to make, Varian.
A little tolerance from people, please.
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The conference will serve no other purpose than to give politicians something to point at when they're discussing the "seriousness" of video game's negative effect on children.
This conference is just away to publicise and politicise the topic of sex in video games so that it can be seen as more of an issue than it is.
I want to see the sex in movies conference.
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