This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0747563222001637
Yeah, if violent games (and I mean real ones, where you literally play as evil maniac) don’t make people do violence irl why would lolicon games (even hardcore stuff like teacher rape fantasy) make them do pedo crime.
They don’t even see the games behind the transactions they’re processing, so you can just buy as usual. Steam and Itch reacted differently to the complains they got: Steam deleted only content corresponding to particular tags (incest, noncon, etc), while Itch simply hidden all NSFW games from their catalogue. It is speculated the reason behind this is that Steam has very thorough curation and moderation and thus they know exactly what they have on their platform and they can take down exactly the games corresponding to complains while Itch largely relies on self-tagging by developers which is quite arbitrary and doesn’t necessary contain certain tags even if those things are present in game. So Itch would need to perform full review of all NSFW games by moderators to filter out those that are disliked by payment processors. Anyway, few days ago Trump signed executive order to prohibit unlawful debanking, so it is very likely that all delisted/banned games on both Itch and Steam will get back to normal within 180 days.
Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to research (www.psypost.org) angielski
This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0747563222001637
18+ 17k+ indexed adult games from itch.io on goony.dev (goony.dev) angielski
Many adult games were hidden from search on itch.io still online, but hard to find....