Video games are so scary—scary enough that, when sex’s involved, people just go crazy. Or, at least, your friendly local Fox News affiliate goes crazy.
So, once upon a time, some clever people at ThriXXX hacked the Kinect Xbox 360 interface so it could be used to electronically fondle computer-generated women in their pre-existing adult video games. Then, Microsoft said, “No, thank you.” ensuring that no fake sex would be had with their body-motion interactive Kinect device.
Flash forward to an El Paso, Texas Fox affiliate news broadcast that has parents terrified by insinuating that any kid—whether they be a horny 18-year-old or a wide-eyed innocent 5-year-old who just got an Xbox for Christmas—can download all the Kinect porn games they want.
The writers of the Fox article overall seemed in the dark about the difference between downloading PC games and getting Microsoft-approved content via Xbox Live, but that’s okay, because they probably don’t play a lot of video games. (Or do much electronic fondling.) But that doesn’t stop them from quoting a concerned and also in-the-dark parent as an expert of sorts (when it kinda looks like the writer is related to the parent in question.)
But I guess we can’t be too hard on them; responsible journalism is hard. So are sex and video games.