If you were waiting for an episode in which Jon says “shooting orgasmic fireballs,” today’s your lucky day. This episode we look at the STRIKING VIPERS episode of Black Mirror season 5. In it, two friends who are straight men in real life fall in love while playing avatars of differing gender (and race) in an immersive video game. We discuss the plausibility of such technology and the ways the episode depicts the wider world, and interrogate some of the interesting things that come up around sex and embodiment.
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