Priceless Play 23 February

**This week’s Priceless Play is NSFW!!!**

Sex in games is certainly nothing new. There are, of course, the various moral panics — GTA’s famed “hot coffee,” for instance — to countless articles about the sex lives in SecondLife. Our Very Own Kieron Gillen called S.EXE, here at RPS from 2014-2015. And now, for a brief second, this piece will be the very latest in adding to the conversation on sex in games. It certainly won’t be the last.

Look. Sex is complicated. For those who have it, it’s a melange of vulnerability and tenderness and pleasure — or perhaps sex has become rote muscle memory. Maybe it is, instead, consensually brutal. Sometimes there are genitals involved in sex. Sometimes there are facsimile genitals. Maybe there’s an orgasm, or two, or four, or five, or zero. Two people, four people, more people, one people. Sex is a wildly complicated interconnected series of questions, conversations, yesses, maybes, nos, agreements, disagreements, and (crucially) respect. Or consensual disrespect. Ultimately, one hopes, despite all of this, sex is as easy as breathing.

Here are some games which consider sex from all sorts of angles.

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