sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake

[extemporanea]

Too weird. Cooking malva pudding is apparently a pervasive process, to the point where I can still smell it on my hair after two days. I am not sure if the effect of this is to mark me inescapably as a stay-at-home domestic type, or if it'll operate closer to David's well-known Vanilla Theory Of Seducing Women (men smelling of vanilla are

Comments

[starmadeshadow]

WoW has potential for online eroticism? Darn, I knew I should've bought the manual, and not disabled chat...

[extemporanea]

I honestly can't say - anecdotal evidence of WoW weddings aside - whether WoW has any actual, practical erotic potential; all they had to do was demonstrate its theoretical potential ... The good essays babbled about the power of co-operation and community, and shared experience, and role-play freedom, and identity dissociation, and visual idealisation and what have you. For some reason WoW seems to appeal very strongly to a roomful of humanities students who've never actually played.

[bumpycat]

Clearly they haven't played, because then they would quickly realise that most people use the anonymity to, er, express themselves in publicly unacceptable ways. Online eroticism in WoW usually extends no further than "lol i took my armor off!!!11"

[extemporanea]

One of the whole points of online eroticism is the freedom it gives you to express yourself anonymously in ways unacceptable in the real world. Of course, the notional 85% response to the question, the one I never actually received, would point out that one of the drawbacks to WoW as an erotic space is precisely this group/game element, which works directly against meaningful/intimate interaction and may outweigh all the other elements which work in its favour.

The question actually asked them to try and account for why WoW weddings take place. Of course, next year's question is going to read: Online eroticism in WoW usually extends no further than "lol i took my armor off!!!11". Discuss.

[bumpycat]

Well, to extend my statement, eroticism in WoW is generally very limited and unimaginative. And, there is little interesting in the publicly unacceptable behaviour - it would have been better to describe it as "annoying and intrusive".

World of Wankcraft

[first_fallen]

lol u sed "eroticism" and "extend" in teh same sentens!!11