I’ve never really played any porn games more hardcore than Baldur’s Gate 3 before, but you remember a couple weeks ago when GOG gave away those NSFW games, as a direct response to the whole thing?

Well I claimed the bundle just to boost their numbers (because censorship is bullshit), but recently I needed a low-difficulty gaming distraction, so I checked a few of them out, and… some of them are kind of good?

Like first off you have to be okay with visual novels (usually), but if you’re cool with that, some of them actually have some compelling characters, and occasionally even good gameplay in between all the fucking and whatnot.

Leap of Love is amusing, kind of adorable when it comes to the not-sex stuff, and charming. It is also a game where you (a former frog) can marry and simultaneously bed 3 princesses and their stepmother after deposing of the evil king. My brain is still trying to reconcile this.

Huniepop is one of the best match 3 puzzle games I’ve ever played, with a chill as hell soundtrack. Also a scantily-clad foul-mouthed love fairy wants you to fuck every woman in a 5 mile radius who can fog a mirror.

And Crom help me, when I finished… sigh… Fetish Locator Week 1, I actually cared enough about some of the characters to buy the next one.

The point is, some of these games have more depth and value than I’d been led to believe, and I wouldn’t have known that if the censorship thing hadn’t started that chain of events. So congrats censorship people, and honestly thanks, I guess? Completely the opposite of your intended effect. Task failed successfully.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      87·
      18 days ago

      I’ve always felt that puritanical stigmatization of sex and sexuality have really fucked us up psychologically as a species.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        18 days ago

        Puritanism comes down to “happiness is bad.“

        Not just sex; dancing, music, poetry, novels, games, decorations. Anything which takes joy in life and expression is forbidden.

        Suffering while alive is seen as the proper punishment for being born human - seeing people and nature as beautiful and divine is legitimately blasphemy to these people.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      48·
      18 days ago

      I remember a quote from a famous porn actor “nacho vidal”.

      “I’d rather have my kids playing with “fake plastic penises” around the house than playing with fake plastic firearms.”

      I’m not comfortable with the idea of kids playing with sexual toys. But it makes me feel something weird that I’m not more weirded out by kids playing to kill with fake guns.

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        18 days ago

        I’m pretty sure a majority of people touched a real penis before touching a real gun.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        18 days ago

        I didn’t expect a media critique article to make it click why I don’t find “ideal” body types half as attractive as a chick with a realistic belly (of any size sans starvation) and a flirtatious smile.

        But yeah, media and culture have become largely sterilized in regards to sex.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          Yeah, usually the stars are classically attractive still, but there’s a lot more space for other people in other roles. I think comedy in particular has a lot of stars who aren’t incredibly hot.

          However, probably a lot of people who are getting jobs as extras are trying to make their way in the industry. The industry, being dominated by attractive people, attracts attractive people. Ugly people fear they wouldn’t succeed, so it creates a selection bias.

      • Brylant@discuss.onlineEnglish
        111·
        18 days ago

        Omg what an utter dogshit of an article this is. I bet a fat person expecting unnecessary sex scenes in action movies wrote it. Like go watch some BBW porn you whale.

    • rapchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      18 days ago

      well tbf one of the detailed sex scenes (in the book) is between a 30 yrs old khal drogo with a 13 year old daenerys targaryen, and it’s being depicted as a good thing, he’s the first guy that cares about her

    • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      18 days ago

      japanese manga is a nice counter to this

      the media targeted to older readers has many well done stories that contain realistic sexuality (good and bad)

      and i’m not talking about the stupid shit like jacking it in the river gave me a half fish half man son