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15.06.04 Queer Power, the game of sexes.
A pinch of irony is often necessary when it comes to videogames having sex as their main theme. The possibility to make up new realities at will should encourage to simulate new situations and to explore a territory much larger than its commercial aspects. The last creation by Molleindustria does just that, by allowing to change one's own sexual identity in real time to have a relationship with another person, also mutating, deconstructing the hetero/homo dichotomy so common in mass media. In 'Queer Power', the author tries to uncover the 'denied identities' of the player, with the help of a morphing silhouette which makes the identification process more natural and instinctive. In this subtle equilibrium between desire and representation, the player and its partner/adversary (a subversion of videogame roles typical of these authors) 'win' by reaching or giving an orgasm, and both things can happen at the same time. The game gains another meaning for the time that passes between an intercourse and the next.