{"id":1066,"date":"2023-04-14T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:58:38","slug":"episode-69-when-video-games-get-kinky-with-kate-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Episode 69 \u2013 When Video Games Get Kinky (with Kate Gray)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Release Date: May 23, 2023]&nbsp;In this episode we explore some of the ethical issues related to kinks in video games \u2013 mostly adult ones.&nbsp; How can games allow us to explore kinks?&nbsp; What are some ethical pitfalls designers should consider?&nbsp; How do issues like representation and consent fit in?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Gray is a games writer and journalist with a specialist interest in portrayals of sex, sexuality, and relationships in&nbsp;video games. She is currently working on writing for several games, including one that&#8217;s all about dating (but no sex. Well, implied sex). In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, whittling, and pottery, like a character out of Wind in the Willows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2C1ACQsw524bp3c2nxf7oa?utm_source=generator&#038;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: May 23, 2023]&nbsp;In this episode we explore some of the ethical issues related to kinks in video games \u2013 mostly adult ones.&nbsp; How<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[241,243,244,240,239],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-kinks","tag-kinks-in-games","tag-porn-games","tag-sex-ethics","tag-sex-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/69-1-1-3.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}