Notes On Contributors Acknowledgements List of Figures Button Mashing: Introduction to The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Video Games Matthew Wysocki (Flagler College, USA) and Steffi Shook (Manhattanville College, USA) I: PLAYING WITH SEXUALITIES 1. Now You’re Playing with Polyamory: Ludonarrative Resonance and Intentional Non-Monogamy in Games as Queer Play Nathan Rambukkana (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Meghan Adams (Ontario Tech University, Canada) 2. A Question of Breeding: Reproduction, Evolution, and Heredity in Video Games Rob Gallagher (King's College London, UK) 3. Streaming, Play, and Sexuality Ashley ML Guajardo (University of Utah, USA) 4. I Don't Care Who You Are, As Long As You Love Me: Playersexuality in Video Games Alayna Cole (Sledgehammer Games, USA) 5. Castlevania: Monstrously Queer AJ Castle (Stony Brook University, USA) 6. “He Was My Favorite”: Sander Cohen as Queer Stereotype in BioShock Galen David Bunting (Northeastern University, USA) 7. Bisexual Representation in Games: Erasure, Stereotypes, and Independent Game Development Steffi Shook (Manhattanville College, USA) II: PERFORMING THE MECHANICS OF SEX 8. Digital Submission: Playfulness and Performance in BDSM and VR Game Dominatrix Simulator Agata Waszkiewicz (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) and Victor Navarro-Remesal (Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 9. Press X for Lust: Sex as Reward in Games Renata E. Ntelia (University of Lincoln, UK) 10. Playing with Oneself: The Space of Fantasy in Virtual Sex Simulators Filip Andjelkovic (University of Toronto, Canada) 11. Flagging Iono: The Hanky Code, Material-Semiotics, and Reading Gender Too Closely Michael Anthony DeAnda (DePaul University, USA) 12. Modding, Pleasure, and the Female Gaze: How Women-created Mods Challenge In-game Portrayals of Sexuality and Sex Finja Walsdorff (University of Siegen and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) III: WHEN SEXUAL CONTENT IS A GAME 13. Tame, Suggestive, and Lewd: Early Erotic Play Encoded in Leather Goddesses of Phobos Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida, USA) 14. The Limits of Queer Choices: The Neoliberal Logic and Gameplay Mechanics of Mass Effect Tyler Quick (Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, USA) 15. Plow Her Well. Show Her You're A Man”: Language, Sex, and Heteronormativity From a Diachronic Perspective in The Witcher Video Game Series Frazer Heritage (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 16. I Could Make You Care: Longing, Frustration, and Playersexuality in Fallout J. Burbage (McMaster University, Canada) 17. “Let's See How Special You Are”: The “Complicated Women” of Resident Evil Village Marc Ouellette (Old Dominion University, USA) 18. An Unknown Sex Game: Navigating Challenges in Game Studies Mayara Araujo Caetano (University of Turku, Finland) 19. Libidinal Politics of Games: Mass Effect Suggestive Sex and Hardcore Porn Leandro Augusto Borges Lima (Independent Scholar) IV: ENGAGING WITH SEX IN GAMES 20. Input/Output: Mapping Sex and Sexuality in AAA Video Game Play-Spaces Through the Metal Gear Solid Series Christopher McMahon (University of Liverpool, UK) 21. Hobbyist Methodology for History and Creation: Studying 80s Micro-computer Pornography Charlotte Courtois (Université de Montréal, Canada) 22. Digital Games and Sexual Health Nina Kiel (Game Developer and Independent Scholar, Germany) 23. Deplatforming Digital Sex: Self-Governing Sex in Video Games Jean Ketterling (Carleton University, USA and Mount Allison University, Canada) 24. Pushing Digital Boundaries: Exploring Sex and Love in Video Games Christine Tomlinson (University of California, Irvine, USA) 25. Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives Cody Mejeur (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Xavier Ho (Monash University, Australia) Index

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