CHAPTER NINE
Sexual Games
SOME games are played to exploit or fight off sexual impulses. These are all, in effect, perversions
of the sexual instincts in which the satisfaction is displaced from the sexual act to the crucial
transactions which constitute die payoff of the game. This cannot always be demonstrated
convincingly, because such games are usually played in privacy, so that clinical information about
them has to be obtained secondhand, and the informant's bias cannot always be satisfactorily
evaluated. The psychiatric conception of homosexuality, for example, is heavily skewed, because
the more aggressive and successful "players" do not often come for psychiatric treatment, and die
available material mostly concerns the passive partners.
The games included here are: "Let's You and Him Fight," "Perversion," "Rapo," "Stocking Game"
and "Uproar," In most cases, the agent is a woman. This is because the hard forms of sexual games
in which' the man is the agent verge on or constitute criminality, and properly belong in the
Underworld section. On the other side, sexual games and marital games overlap, but the ones
described here are readily available to unmarried people as well as to spouses.
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