This piece attempts to document the context and tangible elements created by two live-action role-playing games (larps) that Katherine Castiello Jones co-authored: Cady Stanton’s Candyland (2013) and Candyland II: Ashley’s Bachelorette Party (2014), run at Intercon1 in 2013 and 2014, respectively. These larps aimed to explore women’s experiences with sexuality and encourage a dialogue about sexual desires, experiences, and conflicts. Though there are several other live-action scenarios dealing with sex, coauthors Jones and Julia Ellingboe wanted to create scenarios that focused specifically on women’s experiences and how sexual experiences intersect with issues like religion, feminism, family, sexual identity, and age. The goal was to create games that would allow players to explore these issues in a way that would be both informative and entertaining, and we felt that larp would be a particularly useful medium through which to achieve this goal.
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