‘No one-handed typing’: An exploration of gameness, rules and spoilsports in an erotic role play community in World of Warcraft

This article merges classic and contemporary texts in the study of games as tools to explore how endogenous and exogenous rules are created and maintained in a community of North and Central American erotic role players in the massive multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft. The data for this article comes from nine months of immersive fieldwork on a role-playing server in which participant observation, case studies and in-depth...