Unsurprisingly Red Dead Redemption is a game full of intense violence, but the sexual content
is sometimes much more confronting.
Sex does, of course, run rampant... putting the Wild in Wild West, and lots of it comes
from some unusual places.
Hi this is mitch from Curse, and today we’re talking about some of the most awkward and
straight up strange sexual moments encountered in red Dead Redemption
Abraham Reyes and Luisa Fortuna The only time you’ll actually see sex on
screen is at the beginning of “The Gates of El Presidio.”
When John Marston enters Agave Viejo to speak with rebel leader Abraham Reyes, he enters
to see him having rather vigorous intercourse with some random woman.
That would be awkward enough as it is, but it happens to come shortly after Luisa Fortuna
declared her undying love for Abraham & his future wife.
Marston passingly mentions as much, and Reyes laughs at the very IDEA that he would marry
a simple “peasant” like Luisa - or “Laura,” as he keeps absent mindingly calling her.
After failing to remember her at first, he basically just remembers she was “incredible,”
and that he “strongly recommends her,” and thinks Marston should “take her when
he has the chance.”
Later, after Luisa’s death, - in the name of Reye’s own rebellion.
Reyes calls her Laura once again, then explains that he got them confused because he knew
a Laura as well.
Apparently she was “Like riding a pampas bull, it was, amigo.
You never saw anything like it.”
Even minutes after Luisa sacrificed her very life for the man she loved, that man waited
mere minutes to brag about sex with a different girl.
The sexuality of one of Agustin Allende.
top generals is never explicitly stated, but there are lots of hints.
Vincente de Santa is occasionally seen in the company of females, but he is even more
frequently seen in the company of his young waiter, Quique Montemayor.
In one scene, de Santa and Montemayor are seen with their arms affectionately around
each other.
Many of de Santa’s associates make reference to his sexual preference as well.
At one point, Agustin Allende refers to de Santa as a “mariconcito,” a homophobic
slur in Spanish.
When Victor Melendez comments on the cowardice of de Santa, saying he’ll only attack when
a man is on his knees, Marston replies, “He’ll do a lot of things when men are on their knees.”
And when Marston says he’s looking for two men, Reyes replies, “You have been spending
too much time with Captain de Santa.”
After de Santa’s death, Reyes mentions that “a lot of young boys will sleep safe in
their beds,” implying that not all of de Santa’s lovers were necessarily willing
- or of legal age.
Seth Briars is a pretty scummy dude.
He’s not much for hygiene, and why would be be?
He spends all his time hanging around dead people, digging them up, looting their valuables,
talking to them… dancing with them.
Briars claims to hate women, and the living.
To be fair, he also seems quite broken up about his mother dying, and he apparently
even had a wife and child at some point in time.
So the question is, does that mean Seth Briars is gay, a necrophiliac, or just too insane
to care about the insignificant detail of a pulse?
Or perhaps all of the above?
There is no official answer to this question.
Briars is never explicitly shown or suggested to violate corpses - at least not sexually.
But given that he does everything else with them, it’s not much of a stretch.
Especially since, in Undead Nightmare, Seth is found dancing with zombies and teaching
them to play the violin.
Still, this one is up to interpretation.
Just how far does Briars go with the deceased?
There are literally dozens of lines Marston will hear
from prostitutes, who can be found in Thieves’ Landing and most saloons.
The girls in the game will relentlessly come onto Marston with lines like,
Thing is, Marston’s a married man with a family.
So unlike in some other Rockstar games, Marston isn’t in the market to pay for sex with
a stranger.
Even when he saves a prostitute from some guy who is beating or trying to kidnap her,
he just has to repeat over and over that he’s married.
This gets especially awkward considering how just about every single available woman in
the West propositions Marston on sight.
Sure, it’s their job and all, but you have to figure Marston gets tired of the catcalling
after a while.
And the weird thing is, saying no to prostitutes is a perfectly normal thing to do.
But absolute depravity is so normalized everywhere around Marston, it makes HIM seem like the
strange one for trying to be a faithful family man.
Ok, truth time - the real awkward part is that I think we have all been disappointed
that you can't make John stray…
no?
Just me?
Woo this is really awky.
C’mon - You remember San Andreas.
The sex trade is thriving in the West, but it isn’t a safe one.
Eva Cortes is one particular prostitute with a horrendously reprehensible pimp.
The first time Marston meets Cortes, she isn’t one of the many, many prostitutes offering
to do something to him with their thighs or cleavage.
She’s just a woman being beaten in the street by a man - Mario Alcalde - for no apparent
reason.
When Marston intervenes, he’s given a choice - pay two hundred dollars to the greedy sadist
for Cortes’ freedom, or simply turn a blind eye to another inevitable injustice in the
West.
If Marston intervenes, Cortes thanks him and vows to leave the sex trade, heading for a
nearby church.
A few days later, Marston finds out Cortes did not in fact find God - however Satan,
in the physical form of Alcalde followed her back to the church, and Cortes left with him
again… of her own free will?
Probably not.
When Marston happens upon the two of them again, Alcalde is digging her a shallow grave,
having beaten her to death in a drunken rage.
This is one of the most horrifyingly baffling - gut wrenching scenes to witness.
Cortes seemed so sweet & timid, in no world deserving to have her skull caved in by a
drunken sadist…
But this is the West & a time when human life was worth next to nothing.
Maybe the worst part in all of this is that Alcalde is completely unrepentant in his actions.
If anything, he’s confused about why Marston cares so much..
But to Alcalde - and most of the Wild West society, Cortes was “just a fucking hooker.”
God it feels good to put a bullet in that nasty low life piece of shit., I highly recommend
trying it.
Honorable Mention:
Who are You to Judge?
Some people in the West like men, and some like women.
One might even love a corpse.
But Jeb Blankenship?
By golly, he loves his horse.
Of course, that’s not clear at first.
Blankenship simply asks Marston to find his lost love, Lucy.
Once Marston completes the request by clearing the bandits out of Tumbleweed, he finds a
woman and a horse.
He assumes Lucy to be the woman, but nope - it’s the horse.
When you bring Lucy back to Jeb, he acts exactly as you would expect a man to act when reunited
with his lost love.
It just looks a little odd with him rubbing his face all over a horse’s haunches.
But odd as it is, Blankenship loves his horse Lucy.
Like, LOVES her.
In his own, mind, however touched it may be, his feelings are sincere.
A news article later shows that Jeb married his horse at a ceremony nobody attended.
But that might not even be the oddest part.
A gravestone in Tumbleweed for a Grace Blankenship who died in 1907 says that she is survived
by “loving husband Jeb.”
So that means he was actually married to a human woman at one point.
So then… was he into bestiality the whole time, or did he turn to it in grief after
his wife died?
It may not make the situation any less awkward, but it’s sad to think that he may have been
so overcome with grief that he turned to his horse to satisfy his loneliness after the
untimely death of his wife.
There are plenty more spicy encounters out there in the West.
And even though we don’t know what excuse Jack Marston has for turning down sex, we
know you have a few of your own awkward moments that we might have missed.
So tell us about them in the comments, and enjoy the game.