Note that I specificaly used the word productivity because I did not had procreation in mind. While live-action pornography is perceived as being the use of arousal as it's own end, it’s value is more of a control tool of sexual tension, and, being a fiction, thus a narrative, a programming tool (but I guess this is a non-acknowledged gain…).

I guess I’ll stop there for now and go have my three hours worth of sleep, I’m having even more touble than usual to make any sense.

Also, interesting point about non-productive sex not “working” - but I think it probably goes beyond on. Live-action pornography, for example, doesn’t involve procreation, though it might inspire real-life actions that bring it about. The same goes for in-game (interactive or non-interactive) sex.

Eroticism is the use of arousal as a mean to something else, pornography is the use of arousal as its own end (or at least perceived as it’s own end).
I like this simple definition, even if it’s not totally accurate.

I think you focused too much on the interactive side of things and not enough on the inherent schyzophrenic nature of videogames as narrative tools: If I actualy play the woman pleasuring herself, I am the woman as much as I’m the player (male or female) giving orders (If Mario falls into a trap “I” die). That’s what I found most interesting in video games: they’re probably the next big tool of recoding/surcoding (to speak like Deleuze), as they actualy lay bare the way narrative is coding us (the way the “he” of society imposes itself on the “I” of the reader).
But then I’ve been too deep into that stuff for too long. Made nice reading, and helped set the debate in motion, which is quite enough of a feat.

As for what’s controlled in games at the moment: shooting (general weaponry), operating vehicles, bodily fighting… Gosh, I meant to make a whole list here, but in one way or another that seems to cover everything. Except, of course, in what we consider “weird” games or mini-games. I’m thinking Feel the Magic

That said, I wonder how many aspects of life are really represented in gaming - apart from operating vehicles, running around and shooting people, that is.

Seriously, I would like to see some attention given to the actual mechanics of sex-in-games. Not because I’m a pervert - although I am - but because I think some of those basic questions should be answered before we move onto some manner of Kinseyesque analysis. First let’s see how (and if) it actually WORKS before we consider what it MEANS.

I mean, would there be MouseLook? Could you save the game halfway through or have to wait for a checkpoint? How would alt-fire work? What about Bullet Time slo-mo?