01.12.2009 6:11 pm
Sex, fear and video games: an analysis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Over at the Aussie site GamePlayer.com, writer Stuart Clarke asks whether game makers have a mortal fear of sex — specifically, sex depicted in their products.
Killing, blood, gore, criminal and antisocial behavior in games? No problem. Psychoses, neuroses inflicting main characters? Absolutely. But add some horizontal tummy-bumping of a kind innocuous enough to appear on daytime television, Clarke observes, and sparks fly everywhere but onscreen. Talk of censorship surfaces, too.
Read Clarke’s essay, then tell Game Guy what you think. Does sex have a place in video games?
i think sex is nowhere near as prevalent in other forms of media as violence is. look at a rated R movie — you can have violence and profanity, but how many rated R movies released last year had any sort of nudity? i’m not talking about implied nudity, or implied sexualism, i mean the real thing. as far as public acceptance goes i think they are far more desensitized to violence and profanity than sex.