I talked about this on my Playboy Radio Sex in the News segment yesterday. I haven’t had time to pull the show notes together yet but I loved this article so I wanted to highlight it here.

It’s a feature in a swinger magazine about using video games to get the group going. He mentions the Wii, the Playstation and the Xbox, and I’ll admit: I learned a thing or two myself.

Video Games: The New Social Lubricant
ne of the lifestyle’s many challenges is the same as any other social activity – getting to know and becoming comfortable with other other people. Add to this the fact that your end goal is often to get them naked and horizontal before the night is over, and the whole process can seem downright daunting.

Over the years, lifestylers have found many ways to facilitate some “bed shaking”, such as dancing and alcohol consumption. But as more of us from the “Nintendo Generation” have grown up and entered the lifestyle, another great option has presented itself: the video game.

Hardly just for kids any more (with the average gamer being 35 years old, according to the Entertainment Software Association), today’s new gaming consoles provide many fun new ways to warm things up and get people “playing” in the more interactive sense. Even the names of today’s gaming consoles seem like they were geared towards swingers…

How’d you like to come back to my “Playstation” so I can put my “Wii” into your “Xbox”?

A few games in particular stand out as being practically designed for lifestyle use.

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