2025
Caetano, Mayara Araujo
‘Virtual Pleasure Made Real’: Domestication of Online Sex Games and Sex Toys Journal Article
In: Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 31, iss. 4, 2025, ISSN: 1354-8565 .
Links | Tags: Domestication, Sex in games, Sexual play
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date = {2025-04-21},
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2019
Karhulahti, Veli-Matti; Saarenmaa, Laura; Brown, Ashley M. L. (Ed.)
Special Issue: Sexuality and Play Collection
2019, ISSN: 1795-6161.
Links | Tags: Queer play, Sexual play, Sexuality
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date = {2019-11-08},
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2018
Brown, Ashley M. L.; Stenros, Jaakko
Sexuality and the Erotic in Role-Play Book Section
In: Zagal, José P.; Deterding, Sebastian (Ed.): Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations, pp. 425–439, 2018, ISBN: 0815369204.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Role-playing games, Sexual play, Sexuality
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This chapter focuses on three key areas of interest: sexual and erotic themes and imagery in role-playing games, erotic role-play and player interactions, and sexual and erotic role-play outside of game contexts. It focuses on how sex, sexuality, and the erotic have been represented in role-playing games. The chapter deals with both rules in games that allow for the playing out of sexual acts as well as the representation of character sexuality. It looks at erotic role-play and player interactions, examining studies of how role-players incorporate sex into their games and at sexual and erotic role-play behaviors in non-game contexts. The chapter encompasses activities that can be argued to be playful but do not revolve around a set game. By using these three key themes to discuss sexuality and erotic role-play, it provides a good introduction to contemporary research on the topic.
Brown, Ashley M. L.; Stenros, Jaakko
Adult Play: The Dirty Secret of Grown-Ups Journal Article
In: Games and Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 215–219, 2018, ISSN: 15554139.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Adult games, Adult play, Adult toys, Grown-up play, Sexual play, Social norms
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publisher = {SAGE Publications},
address = {Los Angeles, CA},
abstract = {Welcome to the Adult Play Special Issue. In this introduction, we (the editors) explain the origin of the collection and our unique take on what adult play means as a term. Rather than be specifically about sexual play, the term adult is taken here to reference the age of players. The article included how adults play, what they play with, and when they play. This of course includes, but is not limited to, play of a sexual nature. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed editing it.},
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Welcome to the Adult Play Special Issue. In this introduction, we (the editors) explain the origin of the collection and our unique take on what adult play means as a term. Rather than be specifically about sexual play, the term adult is taken here to reference the age of players. The article included how adults play, what they play with, and when they play. This of course includes, but is not limited to, play of a sexual nature. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed editing it.