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Jan 24, 2022Liked by Mr. Hands

"And why single out games with sexual themes but still allow games with graphic violence to be sold on your marketplace, supposedly to your audience of 13 to 16-year-olds?"

Thank you for calling this out. This double standard drives me crazy!

If you're going to use this as your excuse, at least apply it consistently. The level of violence that's normalized for young people to view concerns me a lot more than sexual content. But if you're going to ban one, it only makes sense to ban them both. Of course, that wouldn't be a very profitable... and that's what all this is really about. No one actually cares about keeping children safe, only profiting off of them.

I was a romance/erotica author long before I transitioned into lewd games and you see the double standard with books, too. Amazon will ban major erotica authors' backlists without warning, but you never see that with violent content. Also, no one ever asks Stephen King if he enjoys killing as much as his characters do... Romance/erotica authors get those types of questions all the time.

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Yes, thank you for picking up exactly what I was putting down. 🙂

I also wouldn't mind GameJolt's ban on adult games so much if it was applied consistently. No violence, no gore, no sexy times. Fair enough if you want to create a safe space for teenagers. But banning *only* adult games betrays an inherent bias against the medium.

You're also right to say that this phenomenon isn't unique to adult games. The same kind of bias exists against other forms of erotica. And indeed, very few people in games media critically examine something like Tropical Murder Simulator 6 but can't imagine playing anything with a _bare breast_ in it!

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