Here in Germany we have laws to protect minors from online gambling, unfortunatley this has created a situation in which Steam in Germany doesn't allow us to acess adult only (USK18) because a lot of games with that rating contain gambling and Steam doesn't have a strict enough age verification system. I certainly agree that children shouldn't be viewing adult content, but i think it goes a little far when the government steps in and prevents us from acessing that stuff when we're of legal age. If you don't want your child seeing something, then be a parent and stop them from viewing that. I mostly use Itch for my adult games since Steam isn't a good option anymore, and if it's being threatened by American companies being full of weirdo boomer neoliberal-conservitives, then i really don't have much hope for porn artists in the future.
Love your work, always here to support it. I think it's worth saying that you should be political here. Political doesn't mean "this is my prefered old white guy", free speech (in this case porn) needs to be actively protected or else the state is going to do what it always does, take as many rights away from you as it can get away with. Companies get preferental treatment in our capitalist 'society' and it's screwing over people like you that sowed and reaped the fruits of their own labour. Avoiding politics is leading to a climate where corpos see a lovely 'apolitical' site like Itch or Gumroad and think it would be a lovely place to advertise, if only all the porn wasn't there. With Musk tanking twitter by letting it become a cesspit of reactionary brainrot, advertisers need somewhere new to flock to and they're colonising our spaces.
Oh you've got a ton of fun in Germany. Even long before Steam your country is a footnote in every discussion of game censorship because of how every game has to be hacked apart to take out even the slightest reference to the Reich (even if said references are derogatory, as they usually are). For a while I think you guys had really strict violence limits too, on blood and whatnot, though maybe that fell away after the 90s.
I'll re-iterate what I said: I have, and will continue to avoid politics for the most part, because this isn't the space for it, and commentary and activism isn't a job I want or am good at. People come to games to forget the real world, not be constantly subjected to it, and I despise the way modern media does just that. Obviously any creative work of sufficient complexity is going to have "politics" in the sense that it has characters, and characters interact with each other and the world and have personalities, opinions and preferences. But I want it to be organic. It's the same reason I don't have a "fursona", I see the whole thing as simplistic and egotistical. I have CHARACTERS. They come from me, but they're not JUST me. They have a life of their own. If you went to France in the 1400s, there would be politics, and you might recognize SOME of the ideas, but it would be very, VERY different from the discourse on Twitter. I think, to the extent they have politics at all, creative works should have them to serve THEM, to serve their own setting and worldbuilding, rather than the emotional needs of the author. So you see little bits, like Haven and the tower and whatnot. But the setting of the game isn't our world. It has its own problems, its own history. I try to give it space to breathe, rather than just telling it what it is.