http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/01/13/the_sex-box_race_for_president?page=full&comments=true



We don't even have an emoticon for this.

Truly a milestone in human achievement.

its my turn with the sex box!

It's MY sex box! And her name is Sony.

What the hell is he talking about?

I really don't think there was a complete rational thought in that whole thing.

They don't. :/ And I never knew that game had a sex simulator.

Beside the fact that his evaluation of Mass Effect is completely incorrect, his writing "style" is nearly incomprehensible and trying to follow his line of thought is like trying to follow a single spaghetti noodle in a pot of spaghetti.

I haven't played Mass Effect, but I thought the only thing you could customize in Mass Effect was the main character? Can you customize everything in it... and for that matter, have sex in the game?

I like the comments on that article.

This isn't even remotely close to the truth. There's three "sex scenes" if you can even call them that, in Mass Effect. One of them shows the arm of a female, and that's literally all you see. Another one shows a side view of a female but it's heavily out of focus, and the last one shows maybe a bit of female alien butt (out of focus) for less than a second. If you really want to see what all the commotion is about, go to Youtube and type in Mass Effect and any of your various sexual terms, and I'm sure you'll be guaranteed results.

It just pisses me off, because I know if I was still a kid and my parents heard about all of these "realistic sex acts" then there'd be absolutely no way I would have been able to play this awesome game. These things just get heavily blown out of proportion, and I'm glad that the gaming industry doesn't seem to really care. Furthermore, to add to the entire thing, all of the "sex scenes" can be completely avoided in the game, and can only be achieved by wooing your partners, in which case the child is most likely already fully aware of sex and is probably old enough to see these scenes anyways.

[Edit] And no, you cannot customize any characters in the game other than your own character. Yes, technically you could make a female, and I guess maybe you can change her bust size, but then again that's nothing new or shocking to this type of genre. Also, it's not a "sex simulation" as there is no interaction by the player, they're merely cutscenes.

Half of me wants to think that whoever wrote this is actually a brilliant satirist mocking Jack Thompson.

This man is singlehandedly destroying the ability of every single person who reads his article to distinguish between satire and genuine stupidity.

Haha America america Americah

in Fahrenheit you actually saw the boobies.

There are lots of boobies in the God of War games.

mmm spaghetti

Needs more meat.

both my boys played mass effect. i didn't see any sex and i'm sure they didn't or they would've said something about it, you know, kind of giggling and laughing about it.

Just another miserable failure of a journalist trying to capitalize on something that may or may not be controversial.

This seems firmly in the "not controversial" category:

*Prepares to be banninated for the terrible explicit pr0n :v:*

That's because it was made by the French.

HAW HAW HAW

Le porno est tres bien!

Dude I gotta get a 360.

Replying to the comments from the first article makes him look even more like an idiot.

http://kotaku.com/344873/mass-effect-political-dickery-corrected

holy crap fwap fwap fwap fwap
and you say its possible to create a female character? would that result in lesbian alien sex?!
I need this game.

More like As$ Effect amirite

Someone has forgotten about the existence of porn.

More like Mass Erect amirite?

More like Huge Penis amirite?

There's worse than that on network TV.

Been wanting to pick that up for a while now. Ordered off amazon.ca for 39.99 + free shipping just now

Now I'm really confused. This guy is sermonizing about the sexuality exhibited in the game, but then making fun of the "gamer-nerds" for being "sexually repressed"? Aren't fanatics like him who want to ban such exhibitions behind a great deal of sexual repression?

Also, I know it's done all the time, but to write a scathing article about a piece of art you haven't actually started to play is awful, awful journalism.

Wait, wait wait. So you can get paid money to report about things you don't have any research on? ...Is there any site I can be hired to write movie reviews of films I never seen?

Heh

Well, with luminaries such as Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D'Souza and Michael "I believe in bigfoot and now I work on Intelligent Design" Medved working for that website, it's hardly surprising really is it?

... I see what you did there Rec. nice work sherlock

poor stupid journalists.

This guy needs to get out more.

I just found a new sig... Thank you

[EDIT]Aww.... 125 character limit.... damn[/EDIT]

alien p0onani!

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}