Sex Can Be designed?
Do you believe sex can be designed? For what I’m talking about is not invol
ve the accessories of the sexual act – sexy garments, overspecialized furniture, battery-operated sex toys – but the very act itself. To a game designer, sex offers itself up as an ample, juicy, untasted subject for design experimentation. Games are rational systems of rules and regulations, boundaries and goals, winners and losers. Yet at the same time, games also embody play: the supple permutations of improvisation, the erotic dance of uncertainty. Play questions, bends, and breaks the very rules that give rise to it. When it comes to sex, rule-bound in complex webs of social etiquette and hormonal biochemistry, sex emerges from ritual, convention, fingering even as it unmakes those structures in its own forms of play, for example: visual, feeling, or hormonal rise. A cozy coupling between these two essential human endeavors, sex and games, would seem to be in the cards.Nevertheless, I haven’t seen a serious design investigation of games and sex yet. A fined bedsprings may helps for toning up both part strength. I present for your pleasure a pocketful of sex game concepts. Some are formal game systems, with clearly defined rules and winning conditions. Others are more like structured play. But all of them are functional prototypes ready for you to test on your own. If you don’t end up following all the rules, that’s perfectly understandable – in the moist heat of a well-played game, rules often get quite slippery. Just remember to wear proper garment gear and to practice safe play.