Recent content by cainejw

So, I would love to debunk this news story as well. I'll do it in two websites. Are you ready? Note that these numbers may not be exact and do have a margin for error. https://steamdb.info/app/317510/graphs/ Scroll down to the final graph. It reads Owners and Total Players. June 7th...

The responses can be highly individual, of course. Theoretically, you'd expect successful exposure to lessen response over time. That may not be the case. It really just depends on the trauma, the trigger, and the generalized nature of the trigger along with personality and how ingrained the...

It most certainly does! Video games have a lot of application to therapy. Unfortunately, there is a generational divide. There are many out there who believe that therapy should fit within a specific model that reflects a Freudian model -- sit at the desk, ask questions, process through the...

Honestly? I am of the personal belief that you cannot label everything that could theoretically be a trigger. As I said, anything is a trigger. It could be as heavy as a rape depiction or allusion to something as simple and light as a clown. A good example of this is 9/11. There is evidence of...

To start, I'm a social worker and clinical therapist. Liana has actually consulted me on this article. PTSD in itself does not demand triggers. One can have triggers without PTSD. The hallmark of PTSD is re-experience AND avoidance after a life-threatening or integrity-threatening event. If...

1. This assumes that men have any sexual attraction to Kratos either through wanting to be him or be like him. Attraction is attraction. They may not want to have sex with Kratos, but that is not the point. The point is through some mechanism that you've created in your head, men have some...

I have, thanks. Dworkin's work was not about power fantasies, and it was never my intention to say so. It's about her perception that penetration of a woman is, at the core, a misogynistic action due to power differentials in society playing out in sexual intercourse. As a result, she says the...

So do you find heterosexual men to often be sexually attracted to half-naked men with bulging muscles? I tend to find they're not too turned on by that sexually. They tend to be attracted to, say, the three women who were in bed with him. I find that I, as a gay man, am much more apt to be...

I always have to laugh at this argument. Sexualized women are male fantasies and sexualized men are male fantasies. No matter what, males are the ones being served by this argument and it completely exonerates female sexuality as somehow non-existent and reinforces the radical feminist idea...

The Bechdel test's origin was a joke in a comic. It wasn't born from serious film criticism. While it has moderate to low test-retest reliability due to its simplistic rules, it has no equivalent reliability or split-half reliability. The Bechdel test has no criterion, construct, or content...

I find myself stricken by how many of you think you have the right, if not basis, to psychoanalyze people. We have declarations that criticism of gaming is an affront to ego defenses. The evidence? Who really knows. This underpins the largest issue with current critical approaches. Critical...