Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

I think it’s hilarious we allow stuff like Postal or Soldier of Fortune without a question, where the whole focus is on going crazy and murdering a whole bunch of people.

But try to show a sensual human body, instead of one that’s ripped into small pieces, and oh my god, this is going too far!

Gender of who is murdered has a lot to do with it too. I don't think you'll find a video game where you predominantly kill women. The most infamous scene of murder in video games is the Call of Duty mission "No Russian" where you optionally commit terrorism at an airport. If you pay attention you'll notice they kill much more men than women, and made sure that despite pleasant weather none of the women were wearing dresses or skirts. Murder of men is a lot more digestible.

This genuinely baffles me. Who cares! It's a video game. It's pixels on a screen. True crime podcasts and movies are a-okay but when its a video game that's where the line is drawn?

The people who care signed their names[1]. It's not a secret or anything.

Most of the signatories are associated with Australian anti sex trafficking and exploitation groups, although there are several UK signatories and a couple Americans.

A publication[2] by one of the signatories connects the dots. It's driven by the core idea:

"Pornography Use Shapes and Changes Sexual Tastes"[3] which is supported by "In a survey of men involved in online sexual activities, 47% reported being involved in practice or seeing pornography which previously was not interesting to or even disgusted them."[4]

I'm trying to steelman when I say I believe that the authors would agree that this also applies to games with sexual content.

To address your comment specifically, while I see the appeal of consistent moral framework. I personally believe that moral frameworks trade consistency for completeness and rarely accomplish either. You have to assume the value-perspective of the other in order to understand why consistency might take a back seat to some other value we could only speculate on.

1. https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-proce...

2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391732869_Not_A_Fan...

3. ibid. pg 30

4. ibid

> 47% reported being involved in practice or seeing pornography which previously was not interesting to or even disgusted them

Yeah, right.