Evvvvvery sperm is saaaaacred...

Sorry. ;)

...god gets quite ierate...

How do you encourage safe sex?
Do you make if sledgehammer obvious that that is the message you're trying to pass on?

No.

You do it subtly. Games with storylines include characters in relationships that choose to "take it slow". You don't have to batter someone over the head with it either. No preachy dialogue all the time. Maybe 1 speech in 1 game out of 10 or 15. The rest, just a quiet recognition that that is the chosen path for the characters.

Naturally, characters in a video game aren't the only experiences kids will see. Kids learn more from watching others, a great many others, and the paths they choose.

I don't drink or smoke. It's kinda hard to get that across to my son because so many others around him smoke or drink. If I preach to him not to, it might actually get him more interested in doing it (opposite behaviour). He sees how other people smoking affects me physically. I think I've turned him off it.

We taught him to say "please" and "thank you" by doing it ourselves in front of him.

So, while kids will see sexual behaviour on TV, in movies, even video games, when there are people around them that AREN'T playing around, they do learn something from that. Sometimes, there is more on one side than the other. Parents always have to deal with that problem.

There's really nothing wrong with a "safe sex" game. But if there is too much preaching, directly or indirectly, the child will rebel. Sublty is a better method.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software

Did anyone see the ad for Lovelife.org that accompanied that article?

Boy, I always wanted to learn fencing. But now... ;)

Finally, something that will actually teach minors safe sex practices. As opposed to sex-ed classes in public high schools, which basically say: "Sex before marriage is EV1L!!!" *Sigh*

Is it bad that I think a WarioWare like game would be the best way to make this work?

Hentai games with condom use might help but nightwing got it on...the..er head 0-o

...why has nobody done a joke about it being distributed virally yet?

/b

I...have...no idea where this could go

There was an addon for Tomb Raider that made Laura appear nude, i think that game in general having her as a sex symbol was fine now having a game about safe sex? I guess its ok but don't see it becoming popular. Maybe if there was some realness to it a few london escorts walking the streets that you'd have to talk into having sex and pay them. But unless i see the game for now i think it's a ridiculous ideas and not worth paying the coders to make.