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Old 04-27-2006, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony
Less females playing video games?
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Originally Posted by Curdis
@CE - The point has already been made, but is worth repeating. If you gals want these game mods so much who exactly is stopping you from making them? Surely it would be a negative comment on female competence and indeed seriously disempowering of us mere males to make them for you
I have no idea, I don't want them, I prefer men who are not pixels. My question was rhethoric, and Tony may already have the answer - less females than males play games or rather, less females than males play games in the regions where females are equally or more interested in porn than males. The only region I know where females play significantly more computer games than males are in Asia, and I have no idea whether Asian women are more interested in porn than males, I've never seen any investigations of this topic. Considering the traditional gender roles in large parts of Asia, I doubt it.

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Originally Posted by DW
Yep! We are stuck in the Dark Ages over here, it's why we need enlightened souls such as yourself to lead us to the promised land and away from our woefully ignorant ways

Seriously, I was going by the last study I had read on the subject. But that was some years ago; the new information is interesting. I don't suppose you'd have an English language link, would you?
Seriously, regarding gender roles you are stuck in the Dark Ages in North America compared to Scandinavia. Even populations who view themselves as very liberal (and probably correctly relative to the mainstream culture) are, with few execeptions, quite traditional compared to Scandinavia. This is most obvious in areas concerning how men and women relate to each other in sexual contact, and also with regard to sexual explicitness and the views on nudity.

The Swedish study I was referring to is unfortunately not translated to English as far as I know. The reason for this is that this and many other studies concerning the behaviour of Swedish people, are conducted by various governmental departments in order to create information for politicians to use in decisions, rather than for scientific purposes. Thus, these studies are not published in any scientific journals, they are made public in the form of official reports but not in English. Like Americans, Swedes seems to love statistics, and there is a special governmental body for statistics about every aspect of the demographics and behaviour of the Swedish population. For sexual behaviour and attitudes, there is special department as well as there are departments for political attitudes, traffic behaviour, education and what have you.

Anyway, according to the latest Swedish investigations, more Swedish women than men watch porn movies. Furthermore, more Swedish women than men participate in sex-chatting on internet and more women than men have sex with people they meet on the internet. Both men and women prefer to have sex on the first date, and both men and women think the bed is the best place to have sex in, and that intercourse from behind is the position they like best. Good that people agree on this
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