Lets talk about sex, baby...

[Ocelot GT]

Funnily enough in a book I am writing two of the characters play a strategy game as if it were strip poker. Lose one match, lose an item of clothing, etc.

But personally gaming hasn't really affected my sex life too greatly. Except on certain days when games are released I'm less inclined to make love to my partner because I want to spend all my free time on that day, playing the new game.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

it is a part of life, but if not controlled by your Will, you might become a slave of it.

 

[mortalsatsuma]

I always assumed sex was just a means of pretending that I was not a social loser and that someone loved me.

likewise

 

[Snork Maiden]

Funnily enough in a book I am writing two of the characters play a strategy game as if it were strip poker. Lose one match, lose an item of clothing, etc.

Haha that sounds good. Although a lengthy amount of time between starting and getting to the interesting bits if its a full blooded game of Age of Kings or something.

Also also OT: I don't like strip games much unless its with a whole bunch of people - strip games with a partner are ok I guess but its just not as exciting, y'know?

 

[boholikeu]

I love my girlfriend and I am not doing this to sound like I manipulate her but the fact of the matter is if I spend time with her and make her happy then it reciprocates into me being able to spend time playing the video games I enjoy. I love spending time with her but I also like video games and having a good relationship where we have give and take she understands. So if you want to have equal parts of both I suggest finding yourself a good healthy relationship where everyone gets what they want and need.

That's not manipulation. That's called a good relationship.

 

[Jubbsy]

I'm not even 15.

Saving sex till mariage.

Problem solved.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I always assumed sex was just a means of pretending that I was not a social loser and that someone loved me.

I like this response because it reflects on a lot of peoples' attitudes. Seriously, so many appear to be obsessed with making sure nobody thinks they aren't having sex or are socially inept.

Yeah, that's just people in general, its a human thing to want people to approve of you.

 

[Bernzz]

Purely answering the title:
K. I put on my wizard hat and robe...
Or, alternatively:
a/s/l?

OT: I'm meeting up with and talking to my girlfriend a lot, and I mean a lot. This means that with always being out of the house or talking to her online or on the phone, I've hardly had a chance for gaming at all.

To tell the truth, it's been great.

[sub]This is related to sex affecting me because of the things my girlfriend and I do when we're alone, and what exactly we talk about a lot...shup you[/sub]

 

[firemark]

Eh, I find that the more time I spend with my fiance, the less she wants to have sex. I don't mind it, but I find that hanging out with some buddies and just shooting some things or playing some single player stuff beats playing with myself. I agree with Snork, people here aren't like "yeah I get it whenever I want. just yesterday this girl and i...etc" I get sick of that.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

Well my sex life in none existent. As is my relationship status. 18 years old, not particularly attractive and my experience with teenage girls in the past few years causes me to view them as the most shallow creatures on the face of the Earth. I'm not a very social person... I mean I can and do socialise. But I just seem to make more and more friends. Guess that cynical charm comes in use for something.

As for it cutting into my gaming time... Well I don't think it would really. I don't play a lot to be honest. Probably 10 hours a week at most.

 

[crypt-creature]

... maybe even more so considering their gift of multiple orgasms and super sensitivity.

It's not always as much fun as you might think. That 'super sensitivity' can get rather annoying and even painful at times.

Anyway, sex doesn't affect my gaming life that much. It's not the most important thing to either my fiance or myself.
Too much of it would cause me to avoid it all together, just like too much of anything.

OP, it seems your girlfriend needs to be told/understand that just because you're 'standing at attention' (so to speak) doesn't mean that mentally/physically you want to have sex. A lot of men can't control their erections, my fiance can't and established that very early in our relationship.

 

[Nickolai77]

Ths pretty much sums me up

Spoiler: pic

Easier said that done unfortunatly XD

Man, is that a real classical painting or was it shooped?

If it's real I know the first thing that I'm going to buy when I become filthy rich...

It's a damn good shoop, quite a recent internet meme as well. If i manage to acqure lots of currency, i'll employ an artist to make a proper portrait of that, with perhaps my favourite caption written on it.

 

[SeanTheSheep]

I used to game a lot! about 20+ hours a week. Then my girlfriend moved in with me and we started having sex quiet often. But this has caused my average gaming time to drop down to about 5-6 hours a week.

You have 14-15 hours of sex a week!?
My god man!
Is there no stopping you?
Jokes aside, I'm not sure that works out unless you mean relationships.

OT: Sex and relationships don't really cut into my gaming too much, but that's because I only really game for 6-7 hours a week normally.
In my current relationship I'm guessing I'm losing maybe an hour a week?

 

[seamusotorain]

Sis one of those things you only want if you're not getting any. Once you get a long term signifigant other, you start to develop ennui. That said, if you let gaming get in the way of sex, you've got problems, matey.

Eitherway, games can be paused. Sex can't. Never planned on combining the two though...

I have, you should try it.

Nah, I play enough Quick Time Event games anyway!.

[sub]Bah-Dum-Tish![/sub]

Why doesn't this site have a rep system? Can I offer you a second-hand Internet, slightly used, in lieu of rep?

 

[khaimera]

I'm married so sex has become less frequent. Its that damn American idol, that reduces my video game time. Sure marriage doesn't have to be the end of a fun sex life, but in my situation its way too complicated to explain here. It would be like the great wall of text.

 

[Jark212]

Sex to me isn't as important as companionship, I like to cuddle...

 

[Archemetis]

There was once a time in my life where the two quite clearly co-existed and were achievable as a multi-layered act.

(OK, I'm lying... to an extent. I really only used to receive blow jobs while playing Fable back in the day and further back I just flat out wasn't getting any...)

But nowadays when my girlfriend is over here or I'm over there with her and if either of us is gaming, we're content to watch, up to a point where it suddenly clicks that we could (and probably should) be having sex...

So nowadays I quite often find myself having sex while my characters sit in stand-by and watch*...

Coincidently I don't remember the last time I ever watched a movie the whole way through either..

(*Really is as weird as you'd think...)

 

[seamusotorain]

Coincidently I don't remember the last time I ever watched a movie the whole way through either..

They need to come up with a way of saying that you only got about a third into the movie, without resorting to if you know what I mean. How about "it ended after the first reel"?

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Too much sex is kinda pointless. Quality over quantity op. Instead of having sex 4 times a day just have it once but make it really damn good.

 

[Loves2spooge]

I hate to sound all highly evolved, but to quote Aldous Huxley; "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."

Too many people think of sex as the be all and end all, something that every human must aspire to, and that it has to be perfect no matter what. What a load of bollocks; if humans were meant to be lead by their genitals we'd never get anything done.

And to the OP, if you like gaming so much, so what? Who's anyone to tell you you need to cut down? I doubt people who are fucking for more than 20 hours a week are being told to cut down. No disrespect to your girlfriend, but a good relationship involves accepting people for who they are and what they do.