{"id":28297,"date":"2012-06-15T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/sex-and-dd.html"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:06:08","slug":"sex-and-dd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/sex-and-dd.html","title":{"rendered":"Sex and D&D"},"content":{"rendered":"

(With all due apologies to (Phil Foglio.)<\/p>\n

Nice article about\u00a0how we use different language about sex in different contexts — and how different games\/gaming systems similarly use different language about sex to communicate something beyond just what's being talked about.<\/p>\n

(Some lessons that also applying in writing<\/i> about sex, it should be noted.)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jerome Comeau<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, look, +<\/span>Meguey Baker<\/a><\/span>\u00a0once again says something intelligent and insightful. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Languages of Sexuality, and how they relate to game design and game play | Gaming As Women<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of the first things I do in the sex ed classes that I teach is to talk about how we talk about sex. For most people, in most places, talking about sex is difficult, or at least unusual. So we talk…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(With all due apologies to (Phil Foglio.) Nice article about\u00a0how we use different language about sex in different contexts — and how different games\/gaming systems similarly use different language about sex to communicate something beyond just what's being talked about. (Some lessons that also applying in writing about sex, it should be noted.) Reshared post … Continue reading “Sex and D&D”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32128,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/mawwiage-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":28297,"position":0},"title":""Mawwiage!"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jan-13 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"So I was following along the news yesterday, as I could on the announcement from the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, about plans to perform same-sex marriages there. \u00a0This confused me a bit, because the Episcopal Church (to which the Cathedral belongs, and whose personnel were quoted in the news\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45703,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/interracial-vs-same-sex-marriage.html","url_meta":{"origin":28297,"position":1},"title":"Interracial vs Same-Sex Marriage","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Oct-14 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As the hover caption indicates, one significant difference between interracial and same-sex marriage in the US is that societal approval for the former lagged far behind its legalization in Loving v. 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