Robert Yang's The Tearoom appeals to censors by swapping cocks for glocks

Two years ago video game developer and New York University professor Robert Yang made a satirical game about the loaded societal anxieties that come with being a gay man in a gym locker room. It was called Rinse & Repeat, and it was a lot more clever than its silly premise of washing a naked man with aviator shades suggested. Yet streaming video service Twitch took issue with its rampant nudity and banned it, even though Yang, and many critics, agreed that its penis presentation was crucial to its purpose. So now, with his latest game The Tearoom, Yang has offered a humourous solution: swap a cock for a glock.

That’s right, in The Tearoom male genitalia is portrayed as flesh-coloured firearms.

“To appease this oppressive conservative gamer-surveillance complex, I have swapped out any pesky penises in my game for the only thing that the game industry will never moderate nor ban – guns,” Yang said. “Now, there’s nothing wrong with guys appreciating other guys’ guns, right?”