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History of Video Game Sex

Immersive technologies such as the Oculus Rift and Microsoft's Hololens may mean video games and sex will never come out from between the sheets.

By Lizzie BoudoirPublished 8 years ago 7 min read
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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.

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It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that a console called Playstation would be the leader in sexually inquisitive users. With a 47% market share of all surfers using game consoles for their sex queries and visual stimulus, playstation is a masturbation destination, followed by a company that has an X drawn on a spot. Xbox marks its territory with 38% of it horny Halo addicts searching for vice city. In third place is Nintendo’s Wii, but it is unclear if the analysis included Hentai.

Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee

It was not until 2005 that the presence of sex in video games was brought to mainstream levels of public awareness. The Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Hot Coffee mod was a mini-game, not included with the official release, featuring crude sexual intercourse between the game’s protagonist and his chosen in-game girlfriend. Lawmakers and politicians were outraged. Throwing their strap-on’s down, they swiftly had the game re-rated until the developers released a patch making the coffee cold.

The Hot Coffee incident was the first time the general public showed any sort of awareness that video games contained sex. Prior to the incident, only disbarred lawyer activist Jack Thompson seemed to care about the state of games. Games had been associated with a sense of childlike purity, mainly because the word “game” was associated with children. The cultural notion may also account for the fact that young men were stigmatized for playing video games early on in the industry’s development. As video games shed their adolescence, they searched for ways to cater to an audience that could not be satisfied by text-based love and 8-bit adventures. Better graphics, more money, and new platforms allowed developers to begin injecting sexual content into games for a mature audience.

The Witcher 2

Nearly every triple-A title in contemporary games features sex scenes, or at the very least implies them. Because sex some how makes it into everything. Often referred to as Rule 34, the basic principle is that somehow sexually oriented material or undertones exists for any conceivable subject . Beyond mere sexually suggestive characters, many games allow players to embark on intimate relationships with another in-game character. Mass Effect allows players to seduce one of their crew, leading to a crude lovemaking cutscene. The Witcher 2 bared breasts and pubic hair to a soothing fantastical soundtrack, but only implies that the deed was done. The release of Grand Theft Auto V on PC allowed players to experience a prostitute from the eyes of whichever character they are playing. Any multiplayer game that includes player-to-player interactions is bound to have sex in one form or another. As is the case with the mediums of film, books, and television, sex and video games are married happily ever after. It is only a matter of time before porn stars become video game stars. Are you actually having sex with a pornstar if it is in a virtual world.

From Grand Theft Auto to The Witcher 2, the race to make video games more sexually realistic has begun. As technology advances the realism may be more than society bargained for.

Second Life

Video game and video game sex are headed where no gamer has gone before – a world where adolescent fantasies of Lara Croft will be fulfilled thanks to virtual reality headsets. Mainstream developers are unlikely to include outright sex in the near term, but is is seemingly only a matter of time. Video games like Second Life, that are already soaked from a community obsessed with sex, are likely to pioneer video game sex in the coming decades. As porn companies pioneer the way for immersive erotic technologies, video game companies will almost certainly take the smartest path – capitalizing off of what the consumers want.

Oculus Rift

Skeptics have questioned just how realistic virtual sex could possibly be, claiming reality will not be stimulating enough to trick the mind. A recent study pairing the video game Alien: Isolation with the Oculus Rift raised safety concerns. Players became so immersed in the experience that researchers feared the realistic and frightening gameplay might induce heart attacks or other health issues related to high stress.

Most gamers are already having an affair with their consoles already. Throw sex into the equation and you got yourself a really cheap date there. It may also allow two people over any distance to be intimate with one another in video games such as MMORPG’s Second Life. A man in the United States and woman in Estonia may form a healthy digital relationship without ever having to board a plane. Rather than chasing sex with virtual avatars, men and woman around the world may find new meaning in relationships and revolutionize online dating. Imagine being able to Tinder in a virtual environment. How about a virtual JDdate. Or instead of watching The Bachelor, you are the bachelor and anything goes. There are strange days ahead, but it seems like a great time to be a gamer.

Lucid Dreams

Developer Veiviev has developed Lucid Dreams, one of the first realistic virtual sex experiences. Multiple high definition cameras, such as GoPros, take photos of a model that are then stitched together on a computer to create the most photo-realistic 3D models ever seen. Even single strands of hair are rendered. For the time being the rendered women resemble wax statues rather than living people. The project is like watching robots have sex, but future iterations will only become more realistic and possibly replace lust for physical intimacy altogether. However, the Lucid Dreams project can only trick a persons’ eyes. Tricking the body into believing it is engaging in sex is the ultimate dream – and the future of virtual reality.

The Fourth Wall Will Fall

The imaginary fourth wall, preventing a virtual sex experience will eventually be torn down. At some point in the future, the video game industry will be immersed in virtual reality and provide a seamless experience that puts players in the seat of the main character. Players won’t watch Commander Shepard seduce Miranda, they will be Shepard seducing Miranda. They will experience sexual activity as intense as the action game play.

Most gamers are already having an affair with their consoles already. Throw sex into the equation and you got yourself a really cheap date there. It may also allow two people over any distance to be intimate with one another in video games such as MMORPG’s Second Life. A man in the United States and woman in Estonia may form a healthy digital relationship without ever having to board a plane. Rather than chasing sex with virtual avatars, men and woman around the world may find new meaning in relationships and revolutionize online dating. Imagine being able to Tinder in a virtual environment. How about a virtual JDdate. Or instead of watching The Bachelor, you are the bachelor and anything goes. There are strange days ahead, but it seems like a great time to be a gamer.

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Lizzie Boudoir

Thrice married, in love once, overly romantic, and hypersexual.

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