Game Jolt’s recent decision to ban so-called “p*rn games” leads your old pal James Stephanie Sterling to rant about the treatment of adult content and sex workers overall.
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Game Jolt’s recent decision to ban so-called “p*rn games” leads your old pal James Stephanie Sterling to rant about the treatment of adult content and sex workers overall.
Its interesting how something as natural as sex is taboo while extreme violence is accepted without much hubbub
I’ve always loved how stupid the dichotomy of the marketing industries saying of “Sex sells” while then people treating sex like a bad thing…. lol
‘The left wing circles I swim in are the thirstiest of all’
Stephanie that’s probably the most relatable thing you’ve said.
During his time as a hostage in Beiruit, Terry Waite noted that his captors were more than happy to watch violent films, but blanched and changed the channel if they encountered any shows with scantily clad women. Puritans have the dirtiest minds, of course. But in their worldview, death is always preferable to sexuality.
Similar principles underpin the American experience, where gore and violence are acceptable, but sex is not. It is, after all, a country where you have a divine right to firearms, but where women are criminalised for needing an abortion.
Well, being educated on the hypocrisy of how sex is treated by the entertainment industry wasn’t what I was expecting to do on my lunch break, but hey, consider me educated and disgusted by the hypocrisy.
Your nails are looking fantastic, by the way. Colours of the rainbow, very cool.
A game can depict as much bloody, gory violence as it wants, and yet another game that has the audacity to involve the nowhere-near-as-violent act of sex or sexual-romantic themes (or god *really* help us, sex between LGBTQ+ people) between consenting adults will be perceived as the one most “harmful”. Hell, 14 year olds shooting each other in Fortnite in a competitive death-match is deemed acceptable, but if those same people are ‘exposed’ to a female nipple then it’s considered high sacrilege. The double standard is such BS.
The use of “normalizes” always hits me like a train every time I remember this dumpster fire of a statement
I’m asexual and pretty content as such but even I see this movement and I am seriously concerned. The sex workers constantly thrown under the bus once their pages are getting off the ground.
I would understand if a games page said something like “we want games not to glorify sexual violence”, that is something a company can stand for. But this is just moneymaking. They want to get sponsors or sell their shit page to someone and they believe if they scrub the naughties away they get more money for it. It is exhausting and gross.
One thing that has always creeped me the fuck out about society:
In a movie people are about to have sex. A masked lunatic enters the room and kills both of them. This is normal entertainment and is ok.
In a movie people are about to have sex. They have sex and both enjoy it. This is evil and the people that watch it are considered sick perverts.
It’s amazing how many of these companies complain about “Adult content” without realising most people are, y’know, adults
“We want games and game culture to grow up!” “By that we just mean more realistic violence, not (gasp!) sex!”
Every time you hear “Think of the children!”, “Think of the small creators!”, “Think of the artists!” you can just replace it with “It’s about the companies, the investors and the advertisors.”
What gets me is that they’re trying to equate “sexual acts” with “sexual solicitation” and “sexual violence”. These are NOT the same things
As funny as it was that Tumblr’s porn detection bot couldn’t tell the difference between pictures of sand and pictures of “female presenting nipples” that really was a canary in the coal mine moment for everyone.
Hell, there’s a museum that had to start an OnlyFans because the *historical pieces of art depicting nudity* were getting them in trouble on other websites!!
When in doubt, never forget: “The internet is for porn…FOR PORN!”
Another issue with the “Think of the children!” argument, is that if you teach children about sex, it actually reduces the amount of child mol*station. So, teaching people about sex makes them safer, but you can’t do that because you have think of the positive change and how scary that is to the people committing the crimes.