Conan and the Naked Chicks
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The makers of the multiplayer online game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, are frustrated by America’s prudish sexual mores and the terrifying issue of displaying uncovered female breasts.
“This is the most hardcore Conan story of all,” reads an Amazon.com review of “Conan the Barbarian” novel The Conquering Sword of Conan. “Dr. Freud would have field day with this. Graphic violence, deviant sex, sadomasochism; all are here in full display.”
Tharaldsen takes several opportunities to point out that if such displays of nudity are par for the course in the Conan world, their appearance in a game based on that material makes sense, too. Nonetheless, he readily admits Funcom practiced restraint when implementing nudity into “Age of Conan,” and expresses some frustration over the United States’ response to what Funcom internally refers to as “nipplegate.”
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