I usually try to avoid posting content not safe for work here, but just fair warning that this has some sensitive material that isn’t nudity but talks explicitly about sex and has frames of animated sexual icons equivalent to that of a DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball game.

I tend to go into these long youtube-esque videos that touch on serious topics with a fistful of salt, fully expecting to click the back button 30 seconds into it, but this ~10 minute flash/narrated essay was very down to earth and touched on views that anyone (not just gamers) can appreciate.

The author’s thesis is that video games need to break the anti-sex relationship with their respective console platforms so that the video game art form can take itself to the next level. Movies and TV do it, why can’t video games?

I’d recommend this to anyone that has ever been a gamer, or even to those cautious parents that seem so very, very overprotective/reactive these days.

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1810 via http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org/2008/05/27/nerds-shut-ins-man-children/