I have always found it odd that whenever pornography comes up the degree to which people defend it in all forms. It is uncomfortably telling but also completely misses why this is happening.

Itch.io is heavily saturated with anime porn games along with steam to the point I find both difficult to navigate even with nsfw filters turned on. Turning those filters off and it is pretty egregious the volume of it all let alone subject matter. I dont care about porn but the platforms have done a piss poor job for the majority of people who are not looking for porn games but find games like cyberpunk totally acceptable. How can i see cyberpunk but not hentai?

This is happening because it was too easy for someone to pull up the home page on said platforms and point to several incest porn games. Using payment processors is not a solution i favor but people cannot find that experience acceptable.

On a personal note, i dont want to live in a society that deems it acceptable to have a “no incest” filter for games. That is line for me and not for religion but because I find incest disgusting.

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SXX 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

> How can i see cyberpunk but not hentai?

There are filter by tags too. Works pretty well to filter out like all anime or hentai games.

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rustystump 7 days ago | parent [-]

I like my game platforms how I like my streaming platforms. One for explicitly porn, and another for explicitly not porn. GoT on netflix while spicy is not porn. The issue is mixing porn with not porn. I shouldnt have to go click a bunch of special porn tags to not see that shit on the home page. I like anime games but cant seem to keep them without the hentai. Poor experience.

The fact the default is porn games in your home page IS the issue. It gives all this ammunition for xyz group to do whatever.

The politics of payment processors being the bad guys is nonsense. They have to bow down to too many governments to play ball so will always take the politically expedient option. Almost all bitcoin validators bowed down to us sanctions banning wallet addresses for example. That cat has been out of the bag for years.

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SXX 7 days ago | parent [-]

Porn games are never ever visible by default on Steam. They were always opt-in.

And no, Steam don't mess them up with Cyberpunk.

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rustystump 7 days ago | parent [-]

That is not true. Very often i find porn games not filtered out so does my partner. Which is once again, why having distinct store fronts would have solved this. No system is perfect in tag this tag that so it is better to be explicit with it so things do not leak. This is what happens when you mix it. The xyz groups get ammunition.

Can you imagine if youtube launched an onlyfans like filter to allow nsfw content?

	▲	SXX 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Are you absolutely sure you and your partner not changed default content filtering preferances on Steam? Because Steam literally have settings in "Home > Account -> Store preferences -> Mature Content Preferences" with following options: > Some Nudity or Sexual Content. Games or content that contain some nudity or sexual themes, but not as the primary focus. This is where basically 99.9% of your normal games belong even if they have sex in them. > Frequent Nudity or Sexual Content. Games or content that primarily feature nudity or sexual themes. By ticking this box you affirm that you are at least eighteen years old. This is where all the sex VN slop belong. > Adult Only Sexual Content. Games or content that are sexually explicit or graphic and are intended for adults only. By ticking this box you affirm that you are at least eighteen years old. And this is porn. I'm absolutely sure that "Adult Only Sexual Content" is disabled by default and pretty sure "Frequent Nudity or Sexual Content" disabled too.

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thierrydamiba 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Few questions I think we need to address at some point.

Why is there so much demand for these games?

Why do we think government intervention is the solution in this domain but not others?

Why is there so much demand for these games???

To the point where the only way to stop people from playing them is making them illegal.

Is anyone else worried about this??? I am!