I've recently run across several references on LJ to "strip $game", from Scrabble to Candyland, and I'm just bemused. Especially here on a hot August afternoon, I can't wrap my mind around the idea that being naked constitutes losing.
I'd say that in my own personal experience, getting naked is almost always either a win in itself or one of the points required to meet the victory condition. Even in strip Parcheesi, winning the game per se is not really the end condition.
Of course, I've never been involved in torture, fraternity hazing, or serious gambling.
The winning condition in the metagame for strip N is to arrange it so that everyone "loses" exactly as many games as they have articles of clothing. It is important to remember that, if played with friends, strip N is a cooperative game, not a competative one.
Strip $game (and yes, I forwarded the scrabble references) played by anyone past high school, or at latest undergraduate sensiblities, means it's likely that one can play for any number of strategies; cattitude mentions one viable one. The important bit is that after undergraduate level, nudity is no longer particularly a condition to be avoided.
I'm still enough of a body prude, even in hot weather, to not enjoy the thought of being naked unless I'm very, very safe.
That said, I see your point enough to entertain the notion of the opposite sort of game: that losing rounds requires you to don another article of clothing, and another, an another... ending in a roomful of sweating well-stuffed and indistinguishable sausages.
OK, I'm younger than you but that's never stopped me from holding an opinion. I think nudity can be constructed in several different ways, depending on the context.
It might be that nudity is humiliating because it's undignified, especially if it's imposed by someone else rather than chosen. (Obviously there are more or less extreme forms of this.) You seem to be assuming that that is the attitude of young people playing strip games, and you're rejecting that attitude because you're old enough not to find nudity embarrassing.
You're presenting nudity as pretty much neutral; it's good to wear fewer clothes when it's too hot, purely as a matter of comfort and convenience. This is a reasonable view. I don't know how much it's correlated with age for people to be relaxed about nudity like this, but I suppose it's at least a reasonable contention that this context is more likely to apply to older people than younger.
But nudity can also be, for example, deliberately erotic. In that case, the act of removing clothes, preferably gradually, might for some tastes at least be more meaningful than the fact of ending up naked. It seems to me that that's the kind of dynamic that strip games are playing into. It's reasonable enough to want to be in a mildly erotic situation with friends, but in a context where it's unlikely that there's going to be any followup. Maybe one grows out of enjoying that kind of thing, I don't know.
(IMO strip Scrabble sounds like it would make for a bad game of Scrabble and a bad strip-tease, but that's not really the point here.)
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Of course, I've never been involved in torture, fraternity hazing, or serious gambling.
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Particularly on a hot day.
Time to dome the cities, I think.
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That said, I see your point enough to entertain the notion of the opposite sort of game: that losing rounds requires you to don another article of clothing, and another, an another... ending in a roomful of sweating well-stuffed and indistinguishable sausages.
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It might be that nudity is humiliating because it's undignified, especially if it's imposed by someone else rather than chosen. (Obviously there are more or less extreme forms of this.) You seem to be assuming that that is the attitude of young people playing strip games, and you're rejecting that attitude because you're old enough not to find nudity embarrassing.
You're presenting nudity as pretty much neutral; it's good to wear fewer clothes when it's too hot, purely as a matter of comfort and convenience. This is a reasonable view. I don't know how much it's correlated with age for people to be relaxed about nudity like this, but I suppose it's at least a reasonable contention that this context is more likely to apply to older people than younger.
But nudity can also be, for example, deliberately erotic. In that case, the act of removing clothes, preferably gradually, might for some tastes at least be more meaningful than the fact of ending up naked. It seems to me that that's the kind of dynamic that strip games are playing into. It's reasonable enough to want to be in a mildly erotic situation with friends, but in a context where it's unlikely that there's going to be any followup. Maybe one grows out of enjoying that kind of thing, I don't know.
(IMO strip Scrabble sounds like it would make for a bad game of Scrabble and a bad strip-tease, but that's not really the point here.)
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