Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex?

brumgrunt writes "Why do videogames still treat sex in such a two dimensional way? Why do they snigger at it, or treat it as a reward? Den Of Geek has been taking a look." I always figured it was some combination of games being made by our inner adolescent, marketed to the outer ones, and getting banned whenever they take sex seriously.

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Laisure Suit Larry

[yorugua]

http://lpix.org/s/50483/13.gif

enough said.

Re:Not just with video games, but in general

[Stenchwarrior]

This seems to be more of a problem with the way US thinks about sex, while we here in Europe can just have it casually and not make a big deal out of it. Sure it might be shallow relationship, but so what, sex is fun, feels good and there really isn't any reason not to enjoy it.

I assure you, there's no shortage of casual and shallow sex here in the US.

Re:Not just with video games, but in general

[h4rm0ny]

Slashdot's own marketing data which they pass on to potential advertisers, says that around a third of the membership of Slashdot is female, if iirc. Can we please just let the lonely teenager in the basement stereotype die at last? Most /. are doing well financially and are above their mid-twenties and probably partnered.