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Do Tell: How Do You Play Games to Keep Relationships Alive?

TresSugar — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Last night, our long, Upper East Side-less Summer came to a welcomed end when Gossip Girl's third season premiered. (Check out BuzzSugar for their favorite WTF moments.) While it lacked the melodrama I've come to love and expect, I was happy to see Blair and Chuck haven't let monogamy interfere with their Shakespearean scheming.

This year, instead of playing each other, they're on the same team, fooling unsuspecting girls into Chuck's arms so that scorned woman Blair can storm in and unleash her faux rage. When the girls run out, Blair and Chuck make out. It's beautiful, really.

The game is an aphrodisiac for Blair at first, who says a relationship's three-month mark is not a milestone but a gravestone, until sage Serena - the one who spent her Summer seeking her father's attention by posing for tabloids - gives Blair advice: make sure you're doing it to keep your interest and not out of fear of losing his. Not bad, S!

While games we play may not be so elaborate and evil - though we welcome your stories if they are! - staging fights in public, pretending you're meeting your significant other for the first time, or even straight-up role play are all viable ways to play games. Do you play games to keep relationships alive? And, if so, has it ever gone wrong?

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Dear Poll: Who Is More Adventurous in the Bedroom?

DearSugar — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:00 -0700

Regardless of who has the stronger sex drive, hearing who's more adventurous in the bedroom is sometimes what's most interesting to learn about a couple. Being experimental doesn't necessarily mean making a sex tape, but it could mean switching up your positions, perhaps doing a little role playing, or even using sex toys with your partner. So when it comes to your relationship, tell me, who is more apt to try new things behind closed doors - or anywhere for that matter?

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Handle This: He Has a Secret Fetish

DearSugar — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0700

Your boyfriend feels like your sex life needs a pick me up, but he doesn’t seem too thrilled when you suggest different positions. Instead, he says that he has his own idea, but he wants it to be a surprise.

The next night when you get home, he’s in the bedroom waiting for you. Laid out across the bed is a naughty nurse uniform. He has a stethoscope around his neck and he’s ready to play make-believe. How would you handle this?

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Laptops & Role Playing: Is Technology the Answer to Poverty?

CitizenSugar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:39 -0700

Though Dungeons and Dragons has weirdly wormed its way into the campaign, technology is popping up worldwide as not an escape from the drudgery of every day, but as an escape from poverty. Laptops and role-playing games are a double click of cure.

One Laptop Per Child, a program designed to bring technology and opportunity to kids in developing nations has completely fulfilled that mission in the tiny South Pacific island of Niue. Every single kid, 100 percent of them, now has access to the Internet on the inexpensive, rugged, waterproof (and pretty cute!) laptops. Though Niue is a developing nation, they've been ahead of the technology curve - in 2003 they were the first territory to offer free wireless to all residents.

Once you've mastered the web, can gaming be a golden ticket? Oh yes. To find out how, read more.

Almost half a million people in developing nations make their living playing online games like World of Warcraft, earning virtual goods, and the selling them to other players for decidedly unvirtual money. It's called gold-farming and its growing despite the industry's efforts to crack down. Based in China for the most part, the business garners $500 million, though the true size is hard to estimate.

Gamers gold-farm by offering services like "power-leveling" where one can pay a gamer to take one's character to a higher level faster, outsourcing one's hobbies, as it were. The game's service size is comparable to India's outsourcing industry, though relatively few know the former exists. Why do people pay to have someone else play a game for them? Says one researcher, "When you get people with more money than time and time than money the two will find a way to meet." Paying someone to play World of Warcraft for you!? Whatever next.

That said, has technology become the new Esperanto, a language the whole world speaks? Is access to it the antidote to poverty and crucial to survival?

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Dear Poll: Would You Ever Role-Play?

DearSugar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:00 -0800

When it comes to sex, there are plenty of ways to spice things up when you need something a little different. You can try a new position, add a toy to the mix, experiment with food, or make a sex tape. If you've exhausted all those options, you can always get into character! For many people this means acting out a specific fantasy, while for others it's all about taking on a different persona.

It might be scary to step out of your comfort zone or to reveal a very different side of yourself, but it could also be a lot of fun. So ladies, let me ask you - would you ever consider getting in touch with your more dramatic side by role-playing?

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Animal Role-Play: Would You Saddle Up For It?

GiggleSugar — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:00:00 -0700

No, this is not a joke. But it is horseplay, quite literally. The Stampede is a group in San Francisco that organizes animal role-playing parties and workshops for people (ages 18 and up) who are chomping at the bit for a little pretend play. From cart pulling to race riding, "ponyplay" is no longer child's play. So would you saddle up?

Another Dirty Ikea Commercial

GiggleSugar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:00:00 -0700

Here's another Ikea commercial that never made it to TV because it was deemed too risqué for the American public. I don't find this couple's role-playing offensive, but why is Ikea making naughty commercials in the first place? Sex sells, but cheap furniture does too-- easily. So are all the cheap thrills really necessary?

Ask Two Guys About Guys: Why the Incessant Package-Adjusting?

TresSugar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:00:32 -0800

Colin Nissan and Sean Farrell of Don't Be That Guy fame have graciously agreed to answer some burning questions we women folk have about men. You guys were not loving their answer to a woman's question "Why isn't he calling me?" but this week they head into less controversial territory. Check it out!

This week's question: "Why do men need to adjust their packages so much?"

To hear what the Two Guys have to say, read more.

What’s simply written off as a lewd display of machismo is often a great deal more complex.

Climate plays a critical role in male package adjustment. In the humidity of summer months many guys experience what the medical community refers to as Swamp Balls or Jungle Johnson. Shifting things around is often our only hope for relieving this dreaded, Amazonian discomfort. Scientifically speaking, when the crotch heats up, the ball sac loosens, thinning the skin and causing temperatures to rise. Our balls begin to slide haphazardly against one another, not unlike two Jell-O-lubed wrestlers jockeying for position in the ring. It’s our job to step in and separate the two to give them time to cool off.

Underwear physics are also worth discussing. In the world of briefs, sometimes we simply need to push the curious old turtle back into its shell, if you know what we mean (the turtle is our penis.) With boxers, it’s very common for the fabric to ride up into the crevices of our inner thighs and to drag an excruciating pube or two with it. Rolling the fabric down must be done very carefully to minimize the pain, which explains why our hands are actually inside our pants a lot.

Hopefully the next time you see a guy fiddling publicly with his privates, you’ll be able to temper your disgust with a little empathy. It’s no picnic going through life with a penis, balls and a code of decency all at the same time.

Does Food Play a Role in Your Relationship?

DearSugar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:00:00 -0800

Were you glued to your TV last night like I was, watching the season premiere of Top Chef? This show is one of my favorites, and I've always thought it'd be a great one to watch with a significant other. Unlike most reality shows, its main focus is on the craft - the food - and the drama that follows is just the icing on the cake!

Food can be a great focal point when you're in a relationship. Not only is it fun to cook together, but sharing certain foods can also bring an element of flirtation to a relationship, whether you're dining in or eating out. Does food play an important role in your relationship?

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Living La Vida Furry

GiggleSugar — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:51:42 -0800

"I have wrestled with reality for over thirty years," the man dressed as a giant cartoon fox says. No shit! These "Furries" dress up in animal costumes and enjoy parading around as "animal-people" in their everyday lives. Excuse me while I sit this one out on the sidelines.