Tag Archives: sex

Cherchez La Femme

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Guest

The following is a guest post by Danielle Perry: Writer and photographer with a desk job. You can find her on Flickr, where she posts pictures daily, and on Twitter, where she posts about books, games, living in DC, and … Continue reading →

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Same Sex Romance and Mass Effect 3

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Gunthera1

Though rare, same sex romance options are not new to video games. We have seen them Jade Empire, The Sims, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Dragon Age series. But lately, BioWare has had some shining moments in this … Continue reading →

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Mayday: Or, How I Learned To Love Grace Jones

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Denis Farr

It took me a while to recognize how I would approach Corvus Elrod’s theme for this month’s Blogs of the Round Table. It’s been fairly rare that a game has not managed to pull me out of some fantasy or … Continue reading →

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Sex Negativity & Skyrim

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Guest

The following is a guest post from Bobby Arthur: Bobby Arthur is a freelance writer and marketing communications professional living in Toronto. He can be reached at bobby@thejuiceagency.ca and his XBLA Gamertag is WhiskerRub. Odds are there is someone in your life who … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk About Sex!

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Guest

The following is a guest post from Kate Cox: Kate Cox had ideas about games, thought, “someone should write about this,” then realized in 2010, “I’m someone.”  She’s a straight white cis woman who’s been an avid gamer since 1986 … Continue reading →

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“Did she just money-shot herself with his neck-blood?”

Posted on August 26, 2011 by sidbiscuits

(Alternate title: The conflation of violence and sex in video games, how it manifests in the ‘femme fatale’ character trope, and how this conflation works to serve patriarchal fantasies of women and violence: a male perspective.)     Women in … Continue reading →

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NSFW: Team Fortress 2 team sponsored by Fleshlight?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by kimadactyl

This article is labeled as NSFW because it contains frank description of sexual behavior. If you don’t follow the links, it’s probably OK depending on your work. Sometimes something comes up in feminist and queer dialogue that totally throws me for a loop. I’m sex-positive … Continue reading →

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Good Old Games, or, Sex Is Funny Durr Hur Hurrrr

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Kirby Bits

I’m growing impatient for the day to arrive when marketing a site aimed at a general gamer audience will no longer default to marketing exclusively to over-sexed, under-touched men. Continue reading →

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Gay (But Not “Gay”) Characters in Video Games

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Guest

by guest contributor Robert Yang, originally posted at Radiator Design Blog Robert Yang is currently an MFA student studying “Design and Technology” at Parsons, The New School for Design. If he’s famous for anything, it’s probably for his artsy-fartsy Half-Life … Continue reading →

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What Cosmo says about women who game: we have more sex

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Lake Desire

According to every feminist’s favorite whipping-girl of women’s magazines, Cosmo, women who play videogames have sex an average four times a week where women who don’t only have sex an average of three times a week.  I think by “women,” … Continue reading →

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