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Are we going too far or not far enough?

Does anyone remember that scene in Lawnmower Man where the "smart" guy straps his girlfriend into a video game so they can have sex? 

Well, apparently some people are so interested in this concept, sex in games, that they've established an actual conference about it - the Sex in Video Games conference to be held on June 6-8 in San Francisco.  I know sex sells, and sex used to be the driving force that got both the VCR and the WWW into people's homes, but an actual conference on how to create "Massively Multiplayer Online Erotic Games"?

I'm not sure if we're going too far down the path to create a society of shut-ins, or not far enough!  Can you imagine?  People would never leave home!  It would be just like that society Isaac Asimov wrote about in The Naked Sun.

-- Matt Ranlett
Published 27-01-2006 07:33 by Matt Ranlett
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About Matt Ranlett

One of the two original Atlanta .NET Regular Guys, Matt fills his free time by helping to run several Atlanta area user groups, the Atlanta Code Camps, and works as one of the two INETA co-Vice Presidents of Technology
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