Posts Tagged ‘sex’

27 May

A theory about sex in video games


I’ve gotta rep my old school, SCAD! Great and informative video.

In this ~9-minute video, Daniel Floyd, a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, convincingly advances the theory that the major problem with sex in video-games is that there isn’t enough sex in video games — that video-games’ failure to come to grips with sex as part of the artistic message and aesthetic in games (in addition to the hypersexualized juvenile Lara Croft/Duke Nukem stuff), it can’t convincingly argue that games are an actual artistic medium that deserves to be considered on the same terms as painting, literature, sculpture, film, and other media that often feature sexual material.

Via Boing Boing

19 May

The Game

The Game
When Jack first picked this book up, I wasn’t sure exactly what it was. Was this a fictitious tale of one man’s fantasies, or was this a humorous book of tips. The answer was both and neither. Yes, fantasy is greatly involved here, but this was a true-life telling of Neil Strauss making them come true; going from an AFC (average frustrated chump), to studying with the greatest seducers in the world, and becoming one, himself. The Game is less a point by point how-to guide (if that’s what your seeking then you want The Rules of the Game), though there is valuable information on connecting with people (yes, men and women).

Are you just another AFC (”average frustrated chump”) trying to meet an HB (”hot babe”)? How would you like to “full-close” with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss’s entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant–complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like “half a man.” That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss’s life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America’s most suave gents–including the best of them all, the God of the pickup “community,” a man named Mystery.

Quoted from Amazon

14 February

Texas Ban on Sex Toy Sales Is Overturned

Just in time for Valentines.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states — all in the South — to retain such a ban.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by as many as two years in jail, violated the right to privacy guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

Via ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press