thread: 2005-08-30 : Jonas on LARP Sex
On 2005-09-02, Sven wrote:
"n Wieslander's famous "Melan Himmel och Hav" larp, the method was in-game. That is, for the science fiction creatures that were being played, that was how they really had sex. But as Jonas mentioned, it is also possible to map it to real-world sexual acts."
John is completely correct here (although it should be "Mellan..."). At least in the larp Ringblomman it was used as representing sex in the SIS (as a non-diegetic method, as opposed to diegetic in "Mellan himmel..."). I haven't visited any of these events.
(To be really correct I think the story in Mellan... goes that they had to have normal sex to create offspring, but that was something that noone would do just for fun.)
" A lot of tabletop RPG discussion gets sucked into thinking only about what is happening in principle in the imaginary space."
A good point. This seems to be the standard view at the Forge. I can fully understand this view, but it really doesn't resonate very well with my roleplaying needs. This might be the single things that creates the biggest between me and much Forge-talk.
/Sven - polyfem.blogspot.com
