Whenever a politician, journalist or other public figure brings up issues with yet another video game, citing extreme violence, callousness towards humanity or crude, degrading sexual content, all gamers ask themselves the same question: “did this person even bother to play the game?” For once, someone has come forward and said that in fact they didn’t play the game they were bashing. Self-help book author Cooper Lawrence criticized Mass Effect for its sex scenes on the Fox News Channel. She has now admitted that before she went on the show she’d never played the game. She also said that after viewing the sex scenes she’d seen more explicit scenes on normal tv shows.