1 hour ago · Culture · 0 comments

Say you're made of lego and you want to have sex. How do you do it? Let's let a randomiser decide for us. Grab two lego figures and toss them on the table, Pass-the-Pigs-style. [Image of Pass the Pigs] In whatever orientation they land is how they have sex... [Image of two lego figures laying nearby but not touching] Damn. Well, our random system doesn't work then. Let's fix it with the boggle method. If we put the two figures in a glass, we can prevent them from jumping away from each other. Shake it up we can get a couple of different configurations. [Three images of two lego figures laying across each other] There we go. It's an abstraction, but by seeing what parts of the lego figures are touching we can work backwards to some racy positions. (And a bit of missionary.) Dice and other randomisers are great, because we don't have to involve ourselves in decisions. Right? Wrong. That idea is a trap. It's easy to say that dice results are impartial, but there is ideology hiding in…

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