Will The Xbox Ever Be A XXXbox?

Over at the wonderful blog Complex (link below), Jeremy Beal gives us a bit of history of sex and the single gamer. He starts with the infamous "hot coffee" mod from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in 2004, which, as he writes, "drew the spiteful attention of none other than Hillary Clinton and served as the catalyst for the deliciously Orwellian 'Family Entertainment Protection Act' of 2005."

It ended with the console makers putting up the white flag of surrender and making a hasty retreat from the special treats that we maturing the field of video games well beyond its Frogger past.

But a lot has changed over the past 10 years, as Beal continues: "Hot Coffee ain't got nothing on 2014, but despite the loosening of the puritanical ethos over the last decade the line between the 'tasteful' sexual depictions and good old fashioned 'pornography' hasn't been crossed."

While users can enjoy porn on their Sony and Microsoft devices, there is no officially sanctioned product developed for the sole purpose of getting you off sexually. But there's hope, as Beal's concludes.

"The headaches adult content would cause Sony and Microsoft presently make keeping out of the smut biz a no-brainer. But, that headache may soon be outweighed by the very tangible multi-billion dollar a year industry adult films come saddled with.

"Sony and Microsoft love money a whole lot more than they've ever loved ethics, and if an open-source platform started gobbling up market share, they'd switch gears faster than you can say 'Stern Rules'."

Via Complex