Well, this wasn’t long for the market. There’s a lot to go with the old mantra “sex sells” and it does fit extremely well into almost any media. The Xbox 360 Kinect simply supplies an amazing fit for erotic games and a controller that permits a person to actually mimic hot-and-heavy motions involved with making out and heavy petting… MSNBC right now has a report on the upcoming game ThriXXX, which will use the Kinect controller to allow a player to mime rubbing virtual breasts.

When I continually refer to the Kinect as Microsoft’s Pandora’s Box I’m not quite getting at this sort of thing—but truthfully, it might as well be included in the paradigm. We are, after all, a highly tactile species with an entire set of wants and needs for our entertainment and there’s a lot of money to be made developing the technology for the adult industry and not just for playing tennis on-screen or throwing a shadow puppet show.

“The Kinect Controller is astonishing new technology that allows users to experience cybersex like never before!” Brad Abram, VP of Business Development for adult gaming company ThriXXX, enthused in a press release. “It’s novel, sexy, social, age-spanning, crazy, and a rush to have virtual control at this level.”

The folks at ThriXXX posted a video of their game (still a work in progress) on YouTube Wednesday. The video was then yanked by YouTube for violating the site’s policy on nudity and sexual content. But it has re-appeared on YouTube here. At least for now. (Warning: That is a dirty dirty link … also, it’s totally NSFW.)

The demo of this as-yet-to-be-named game shows a disembodied hand groping a couple of stiffly animated women. Remember Thing from The Addams Family? Yeah, it’s sort of like that. Creepy and all together ooky.

(The video mentioned in the article and its mirror have both been once again removed. YouTUBE just isn’t the proper place for this sort of demonstration.)

For those who do find the video, the best part has got to be the fact that the demonstrator’s face is blurred out. I don’t quite understand why this is—instead of presenting a healthy attitude towards what could be a first-to-market adult industry video game that uses the Kinect, it portrays it as extremely sleazy. Of course, this could be a selling point for ThriXXX for all I know.

It’s hard to get a bead on this sort of video game. It’s unlikely this sort of thing will ever make it to a mainstream market in the US—anything that earns a ESRB rating of AO usually falls outside the interests of major game retailers like Walmart and Gamestop—but it could still find its way into adult stores and magazines, and there’s also the power of the Internet to move its units.

Then there’s also the question of what Microsoft is going to think of this. Probably nothing, actually: unless there’s some sort of licensing issue involved, Microsoft has little reason to go after this video game on any grounds, even moral. The adult entertainment industry was going to get in on this thing immediately after we discovered exactly how versatile this technology is and it demonstrated explosive popularity. Any industry not ready to jump on this bandwagon would soon be left in the dust.

Welcome Kinect to the world of polygons and passion; it was only a matter of time. Our little darling is growing up.

Update: Found another mirror of the video on YouTUBE—let’s see how long it lasts. (Maybe NSFW, doesn’t contain nudity, but imagine lingerie and tits.)