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Gamers Pay To Play With Girls
taucross writes "A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the 'PlayDates', a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a 'flirty' or 'dirty' experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted 'adult gaming'?"
May I be the first to say... WTF?!?
No seriously? WTF?!?
What's the point? It just exploits the hope of those guys to get a real date, without the actual hope of getting a real one.. Wait, scratch that... It will probably be hugely popular... *sigh*.
Do the girls get paid to do it, just like camgirls? Ah, yes, it's right there in the article... Well, guess there is more dignity in doing that than undressing yourself before a cam. Perhaps they can combine it and make even more money: for each time you frag her, she has to remove one piece of clothing.... /ME runs to patent the idea ;-)
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The mind boggles.
Seriously, how do you walk into a bank to ask for a business loan for this sort of thing?
Wow...
Age old product, sold via a new channel. Interesting, but not unexpected.
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No, actually, I'm quite proud of myself for not thinking about this. At all.
Not to defend this scheme in any way but I would guess the mechanism will be that one signs up via a website to pay for the service (somehow I can't see MS letting people spend Microsoft points on this), so I would assume that it's no worse than an age restricted web site on that front and you'll need to have a credit card to get access anyway.
...but it's not.
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this. Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it. And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Why? Seriously.
I'm genuinely ambivalent about even the world's oldest profession, of which this is arguably a very mild version. It doesn't disgust me, it's been around forever and seems to be a part of human nature.
As long as noone's being forced into it, I don't have a problem with it. There are plenty of dysfunctional relationships out there, and it sometimes seems like a straightforward paid transaction is more honest.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
I doubt you will be getting 8.99 per sessions if it lasts for 10 seconds and leave the paying customer humiliated. You will have to loose and complement him on his excellent skills.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
And we all know that girls really only come in two varieties. Dirty or Flirty... sigh... as a father of many daughters, this just pisses me off... then again, videogame females have always been little more than balloon animals...
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It bothers me because it tacitly encourages the continued objectification and marginalisation of women within gaming circles. I don't doubt for a minute that people will people will pay for the privilege of going onto the system and berating the women on the other end of the line for being women, because now they know who they're talking to. If there was a way to police the behaviour of the users of the system, that would be one thing. There can't be, though, so all this is is a perfect avenue for misogynistic gamers to hurt people.
I'll put it this way: even if there were no pimps anywhere in the world, and every prostitute in the field did it because they enjoyed what they did, there would still be people out there who would pay for the ability to beat the shit out of them. Even if the women involved aren't being coerced into it, there's a significant number of men who will abuse the system in order to abuse women.
And even there was, it still doesn't excuse all the disgusting, misogynistic comments on this article.
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fake all the outrage you want, that feminist still isn't going to fuck you
So, in other words, it doesn't matter what women do, there are still going to be jerks that objectify them. So women might as well do whatever they want. If they choose to make money off of these people or people who legitimately want this service, that is their choice.
You on the other hand want to take away their right to choose to this. Quite frankly, your post is more offensive than the majority of the posts on here. Women can take care of themselves. They aren't being forced to do this. Most people are saying things in jest, you are speaking (unless I am way off base) in seriousness. Your post strikes me as more misogynistic than the others. Would you object if a bunch of attractive, muscled men offered the same thing to women? Of course not. It's ok to objectify men as sexual object, but not women? You are the one with the problem.
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I was kind of missing the fact that you keep getting modded as funny and taking you at face value. I'm bored, I'll carry on doing so for a while.
If women aren't being coerced into it, and there are guys that abuse them, they have a very simple option...
If you're serious, I kind of suspect you live in the PC world of academe (as your sig suggests). Have you ever met, and spoken to, any strippers or prostitutes? Quite a few of them would be rather patronised by your disgust.
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.