Dear fellow lagooners,
First I don’t know if a topic like this one is already open. If it is, my apologies.
Secondly, I also don’t know if such a topic and discussion is within the rules of this forum. I believe it is but if it’s not, again, my apologies.
That said, I’d like to bring into discussion a controversial theme (not again!); Games that involve teenagers in sexual behavior.
I’d like to point out immediately that I said teenagers and not children, and I mean to set the mark from 15-16 years old up. Below that I am not interested for many and many reasons.
According to most civilized countries, sexual entertainment materials must only have adults of at least 18yo. That is of course logical to protect the minors from criminal exploitation, financial abuse, and their liberty to dispose of their bodies freely. There are hundreds of good reasons for such laws and I do not want this topic to discuss legal issues regarding minors.
But I do want to discuss the matter regarding 3D figures.
We are talking about polygons, rendered in such a way they form a visual image. There is nobody exploited, nobody abused here (save for the poor artist that works hours and hours).
So here enters another argument for legality and that is not about protection but about prevention.
Pedophilia works of art, like books, paintings, comics, that never use real life persons, are prohibited in most civilized cultures to avoid nurturing sexual fantasies involving children in the consumers. That is comprehensible.
But if the art is about 15-16 yo teens, that freely, willingly, consciously, have sex with themselves and/or with adults, I think we enter a grey zone.
There are games out there, some promoted and loved on this forum, that have this. And they are pretty well accepted, some with great success.
So, I’d like to bring into debate this matter. To know where you stand, and to have an idea where I might go in the next future.
Cheers!