The Victorian
Neo Member
Space Invaders involves blasting alien ships out of the sky. Mario stomps on Goombas and hurls fireballs at his enemies. Pac-Man turns the tables on the ghosts and devours them. The vast majority of games involve some form of violence, even if its in a cartoonish and innocuous fashion. Sex, on the other hand, isn't traditionally a gameplay element outside of pornographic video games, which are an extremely small segment of the market.
It's a bit disheartening to see people sneering at others for being "uptight" about sex. What is considered scandalous in one culture is normal in another. Some of us aren't comfortable with brazen sexuality and don't want to see it in the media we consume (when I come across a sex scene in a novel, I usually skip over it), and it becomes tiresome to get labelled a "prude" time and again, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
I'm reminded of that all joke about how anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac and anyone who drives slower than you is a moron. In this case, anyone who is more reserved about nudity is a prude, anyone who is less reserved about nudity is a pervert.
It's a bit disheartening to see people sneering at others for being "uptight" about sex. What is considered scandalous in one culture is normal in another. Some of us aren't comfortable with brazen sexuality and don't want to see it in the media we consume (when I come across a sex scene in a novel, I usually skip over it), and it becomes tiresome to get labelled a "prude" time and again, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
I'm reminded of that all joke about how anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac and anyone who drives slower than you is a moron. In this case, anyone who is more reserved about nudity is a prude, anyone who is less reserved about nudity is a pervert.