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History of Video Game Sex

At a recent presentation for an interactive video sex game, one of the coders turned to us and said, “it’s all the fun of sex, with none of the mess.” The video game industry has had a rocky relationship with defining what is and is not too graphic when it comes to sex. While HBO’s Game of Thronesand the BDSM-filled novel 50 Shades of Grey are common topics in casual conversation, sex in a video game causes legislators to stand erect in bipartisan union and rabble-rouse about the state of gaming. Games that riddle characters with blood-oozing bullet-holes or see players blown apart are perfectly acceptable, but throw sex into a game and concerned mothers start ranting about the immorality of society, all while their children sit at home with an Xbox controller in hand. What happens when gamers wear a VR headset and enter the gaming world, when the black mirror preventing full immersion is broken? To know the future of sex in video games one must first understand its conception.