Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by trothamel on Friday July 25, 2025 @04:55PM
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Collective Shout, which organized this, claims to be an Australian feminist organization. (Admittedly, this may be an act.)
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Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by t-writescode on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:08PM
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The irony is that many if not most of the porn ARTISTS I have know or known of are women, in a subculture that skews male *heavily*.
And video games are just art.
So, women, drawing and writing stuff they like, being banned and losing an income stream.
I don’t think drawing or writing porn is exploitative at all.
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by the_af on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:47PM
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One of the best porn web comics (which I recommend, though like all web comics it has its highs and lows) is Oglaf [1], and the artist drawing the sexy pictures is Trudy Cooper... a woman.
If somehow the puritanical mob banned stuff like that, I'd be genuinely sad.
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:01PM
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> laims to be an Australian feminist organization
I'm genuinely curious to see how this plays out in the American partisan landscape.
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by anonym29 on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:28PM
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"Protecting women" is an incoherent excuse for pressuring websites to pull romantic games that feature consensual, loving, respectful homosexual male-male relationships, with no women even present in the game.
The real motivations seemingly have nothing to do with protecting women, which appears to simply be a palatable facade for the true intention to suppress all depictions of sexuality, including the depictions that offer good-faith representation of historically marginalized groups.
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by t-writescode on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:09PM
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Ironically, isn’t most MfM smut written by and for women?
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by UltraSane on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:31PM
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yep
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by akshitgaur2005 on Saturday July 26, 2025 @03:05AM
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wait what?
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by tmtvl on Saturday July 26, 2025 @07:40AM
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Gay male porn is the second most watched genre of porn among women: https://www.garrettschlichte.com/female-gaze/2019/10/22/the-...
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by pjc50 on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:20PM
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They are however influenced by the American discourse soup of lies and talking points, in the same way that the NZ mosque shooter was.
Conservatives around the world talk to each other.
Re:Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's...
by swiftcoder on Saturday July 26, 2025 @08:25AM
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Also Murdoch's conservative media empire has had a strong influence in both Australia and the US