10 Ways Role Play Can Go Terribly (And Hilariously) Wrong
Whose role is it anyway?
If you decide to play college student and hot professor, or doctor and patient, or cop and prisoner, just make it clear in advance who is playing who. If you accidentally both dress up as professors, you’ll suddenly be trying to make a peer review or discussion about tenure sexy. If you’re both a patient, there will be a lot of confused self-diagnosing going on. And if you’re both the cop, it will be very difficult to decide who the dominant and submissive one is. There will just be a lot of yelling going on. If you’re both handcuffed, who is going to undo the handcuffs?