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And here I thought people were joking when they said we're slowly turning everything into a game. Nope. Gamification has a new target, and it's female masturbation.
Now, masturbation on the whole has a stigma. Hairy palms, what have you. But some would say it's especially bad with women given societal pressures to maintain purity. Purity, although an outdated and useless concept, is often seen as incompatible with a sexual woman. The stats from the graph above, taken from the Gamification websitewhich show that women aren't so into masturbatingare used as evidence that there's a problem with female masturbation. (Here's some more statistics, if you're curiousalthough, you can assume there's some wiggle room here; not everyone will be honest about this subject) Edit: the X axis on the graph above is as follows: not in the past year, less than 1x a month, once a month, more than 1x a month, less than 1x a week, more than 1x a week, almost daily, daily.
Enter HappyPlayTime, a mobile game that hopes to "rebrand the entire concept of female masturbation through education and light-hearted games." It has what is probably the cutest vagina mascot everyes, I know that sounds absurd, but it does.
Friendly, neighborhood vagina. Jesus christ, you'd think this was a joke. But it's not. They're completely serious about tackling the issue...
More at link: http://kotaku.com/some-of-the-reactions-to-this-article-disappoint-me-t-512014297
Every single asshole on the internet has congregated in the comments section on that article. Sweet Mary Mother of God it's a clusterfuck.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Snark intended, but DAMN! That's actually a pretty cool mascot design. Jerry Falwell would have stroked out just looking at it.
I can only imagine the idiocy that congregated in response, because I'm not gonna read their screeds. On a somewhat different note, it never occurred to me that anyone needed to be taught to masturbate. But if the result is more people enjoying their sexuality, more power to 'em!
redqueen
(115,108 posts)What is the problem with using the right terms for our body parts?!
I blame those goddamn "vagina" monologues.
And yeah, I'm not going anywhere near those comments. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)I think.
redqueen
(115,108 posts)But just like the sex=gender idiocy, which also seems like a lost cause, I will still try to call it out.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)World needs more of you.
redqueen
(115,108 posts)Thanks!
I'm more of a happy/ragey/utterly depressed and dejected warrior though... It goes in cycles
redqueen
(115,108 posts)Here's game developer Anna Anthropy chiming on on the game:
theres this unfortunate idea of sex positivity i encounter all the time that essentially just shames people for not having enough sex and pressures them into doing it more. making masturbation into a universal competition is going to achieve only that: people are going to get pressured into using their bodies in the ways that are arbitrarily defined as normative.
On that note, I can't count the number of times I've heard men whine about how much better women's orgasms seem. Well maybe one reason for that is we don't desensitize ourselves by overindulging. Just sayin.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Exactly
The whole premise seems to be "women should masturbate more"
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)I'd rather my husband just keep his skills. He'd take it a personal failure anyway
redqueen
(115,108 posts)"gals, you can do better!"
Seriously?