Microtalk - Roleplaying Romance

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Argument: analog roleplaying lets queer sexuality escape the transactional script of many digital romances by turning sex into explicit, playable mechanics. Examples: Consentacle uses hidden hands and cooperative play to model communication; Hurt Me Plenty enforces consent by locking out players who ignore safewords; Monsterhearts 2 puts “turn someone on” and a sex move on every sheet so players actually use sexual mechanics; a LARP uses bright dildos, condom-on-dildo rules and pink feather tokens plus morning workshops to teach cruising and consent, and these tools produce richer, embodied interactions.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40Roleplaying Romance
3. 5:52Analog Games
4. 9:15Just Little Loving

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