Some of the dares in the list seemed quite sensual, if not sexual. Maybe that made people uncomfortable, but because no one wants to come across as prudish these days, they framed that discomfort in the language of therapy/victimhood?
This comment was not meant to detract from the other theories or analyses that have been presented. I just thought I’d throw out another option.
I’ve never played Truth or Dare as an adult. Is that level of sexuality par for the course?
It’s going to depend a lot on the social bubble/which group of friends. It’s not outrageous for the social circles I run in, which are pretty liberal/West Coast, but it would be outrageous for some bubbles I consider to be otherwise fun and fine and healthy.
Mainly it leans into the archetype of games like Truth or Dare, or Hot Seat, which are sort of canonically teenage party games and thus often trying to loosen those particular strictures.
Some of the dares in the list seemed quite sensual, if not sexual. Maybe that made people uncomfortable, but because no one wants to come across as prudish these days, they framed that discomfort in the language of therapy/victimhood?
This comment was not meant to detract from the other theories or analyses that have been presented. I just thought I’d throw out another option.
I’ve never played Truth or Dare as an adult. Is that level of sexuality par for the course?
It’s going to depend a lot on the social bubble/which group of friends. It’s not outrageous for the social circles I run in, which are pretty liberal/West Coast, but it would be outrageous for some bubbles I consider to be otherwise fun and fine and healthy.
Mainly it leans into the archetype of games like Truth or Dare, or Hot Seat, which are sort of canonically teenage party games and thus often trying to loosen those particular strictures.