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Brenda Brathwaite Sex in Games Interview at Wired News

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, May 2, 2006.

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    Wired News has conducted an interview with Brenda Brathwaite, who was the lead designer behind Playboy: The Mansion and calls herself the 'sex in games lady'. Here's a piece of it:

    Wired News: So what's it like to be the sex in games lady?

    Brenda Brathwaite: I am the sex in games lady -- how'd that happen? I'm very passionate about it, I love it, and it's also very weird. Somebody has got to speak about adult content.... It's a real industry and I'm ever aware that saying something tasteless could immediately send it 10 years back.

    I believe it's not fair to be forced to have a Disneyesque palette for your games. If somebody said to an artist you couldn't have any nudes in a museum, you have to take them all down because kids might see them, then artists would be in an uproar. If that happened to the movie industry? Actors would walk. Everybody would. But when that specter is raised in games it doesn't make the news.

    It's also kind of personal -- things happen that you'd never expect. I regularly get people coming up to me who have a particular fetish and want to know where they can find a game for it. I never expected that people would tell me about their sex experiences. But when we moved -- I have an overwhelming amount of research material, porno games, etc. -- the movers assumed it was my husband's. When they found out it was mine, the look on their faces was worth everything.

    What in my opinion eludes Ms Brathwaite is that Playboy or GTA porn is not art and porn actors and film makers are not artists. They are sex industry workers, also known as prostitutes and pimps since the beginning of the world. Let's stick to proper terminology. What I, however, liked to read, was:

    Don't give your kid one of these games and then be surprised. It's like an R movie; we need you to abide by that. If we give a game M or AO, there is something there that's not suitable for your kid in this game. Just look at the ratings. And on the Sex & Games blog, we have a link for parents that will show you every game with any sex content, including crude humor.

    At least no dodging ratings and pretending there is not in game what really is there. The appeal to parents sounds right: first of all, parents need to do their job. However, I would like to remind gentle readers that parents first need to see real ratings. Also, there's no need for retailers to be able to sell to kids what's marked as not for kids. Just before any lashing out. Now, comment on. ;)

    Read the rest at Wired News.
     
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