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You can't label queerness as a purely sexual thing because it makes it sound like you believe all queer people are all like sycophantic perverts. Also mind you queerness also deals with gender identity which is not sexuality based at all. From the logic your pulling, games with trans character on this site should get pulled because its based on "sexual stuff". The fact people generalize queerness as sexual stuff is actually one of the main reasons creators who are making queer experience games are also worried.
And just a larger addendum but for gods sake if you hate nsfw games this much not only are they're deindexed right now but you can also filter them out with tags and settings. What are you gaining by trying to stoke fights with people in the community forums? Are you trying to get itch to make the change permanent instead of a temporary measure? The itch staff barely even read these forums and also disagree with you. Just go enjoy all the games on the site you want and leave these people alone because all you're doing is making yourself look like a moron with the times you've put your own foot in your mouth
It is not pornography disguised as a video game.
It is video games with pornography. We humans like pornography - the depiction of sexual things - as long as there exists art. There is cave paintings with such older than what some people will tell you the world is old. You will find "sex" in all things that are expressed. No matter if video games, movies, books, paintings, sculptures and so on.
Curious how games are attacked. There is not even real people being actors and showing the sex. It is pixels all the way down. Pixels. But thought police can't have that. People being entertained by ungodly sinful pixels, instead of being pure and adhering to whatever morals are pushed by an activist group in an attempt to be seen as relevant. Attacking the weakest of the arts, indie games. It is cowardly.
If you think sexual games are bad, don't play them. But do not act like thought police or support others that do.
The post I replied to, is deleted. Iirc it claimed something along the lines of those games being pornography in disguise. Which of course provokes a headshake and a groan... ;-)
But there were times and places and still are places where anything that might be called porn or has to do with sexual things would have to be disguised.
I believe there are places in the US where this applies to sex toys in this day and age. You can't sell those, but you could sell a personal massaging device. Crazy things like that.
FUCKING EXACTLY!
It shouldn't matter for shit, but: I am an asexual female game dev who isn't exactly white. I've got a WIP game that, even though it doesn't have ANY sexual content at all, it is very adult and because, despite it being a dark fantasy RPG, it has many elements of horror, including kidnapping, murder and fantasy religious horror. Because those are only three of the many, many things in it that are far from kid-friendly, or could be called "controversial" with how blatantly vague the new terms here are, there is a very real likelihood that, even if I were to make a page for my game here, despite the demo not being ready yet and the fact that it will be a free game, the page could easily be at risk of being yanked. Because it is not intended at all for children.
When I was in my twenties - early thirties (I am in my forties now,) I wrote porn for a living, professionally. No, I did not act in it, nor was I a chat agent, I wrote hardcore, softcore and fetish porn. NO ONE MADE ME DO IT. I did it because I like writing and have no problem at all with pornography. (Plus, the pay was very good.) I am FAR from being the only woman alive who has ever written smut because I wanted to.
NO ONE has the right to dictate what an adult can read, watch, or play, as long as it isn't unquestionably, blatantly illegal. We do not live in the Victorian ages any longer-- who has the right to say we aren't capable of making up our own minds, knowing what we do or do not like, what we aren't comfortable with, or anything of the sort? We are more than capable of making our own decisions and sure as fuck don't need someone to try and "protect" us from shit!
i dunno if i’m tripping or misunderstood ur comment, but NSFW does not stand for Not Safe For Women, it stands for Not Safe For Work, it means content you shouldn’t open while at work because more often than not it’s lewd, but lately it refers to just +18 content in general, for other reasons such as graphic violence, dark themes and so on.