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qarbone@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This is my exact stance. I want my porn separate from my non-porn.
People that just have badonkulous jiggle physics blasting while they play a normal game baffle me.
I get you but also I feel like this is an unrealized pushback to just how sanitized a lot of mainstream culture has become. I feel like a lot of media up until about the 2010s give or take had a lot of sexual elements without being porn outright and while not necessarily being porn, it really does feel like a weird bit of cultural puritanism especially given how hot a lot of actors are.
In summary a lot of things are hot but basically nothing is sexy and it’s weird.
My issue with “porn in nonporn” is it almost always feels objectifying. Like the gooner Supergirl in the OP image: if her character liked the look of a battlethong and owned it, then that’s fine. It might even factor into the story. But if she just looks like that and acts like things are normal, then it’s like she is being sexed up solely for some nondiegetic viewer. It gives me the same sort of voyeuristic ick as invisible people peeping in locker rooms or perverts abusing X-Ray glasses.
I don’t mind Skinemax; like softcore porn is fine. Because everyone understands the assignment.
I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent but even shit like that doesn’t really exist anymore. Like I said it feels like something over corrected when moving away from objectification and right into puritanism. I don’t quite have the verbage required to quite explain what I mean, it just kinda feels like a lot of media and even culture is outright sex averse in a weird way.
I’d say that is a US-centric concern (and media that expects the US market), maybe even more broadly a Western concern. Japan at least, uh, has not had much of a concern with sexifying…pretty much anything.
I can only think of maybe a small handful of positive instances of “porn in nonporn”. For example, Bayonetta as a character is very much aware of her sexiness, and approves of flaunting it. Compare that to something like Stellar Blade, where the Eve is just “accidentally” super hot, with zero self awareness.
I agree, is what I’m saying.
It is bloody irritating when there’s anime boobies in my face, while trying to loot my enemies for every resource they have.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m like this about food.
I like my candy and food to be separate. All this candy-masquerading-as-food, like sweetened yogurt and cranberry sauce, can get bent.
silasmariner@programming.dev 15 hours ago
If your cranberry sauce is that sweet it has too much sugar in it. It should be sharp and sexy, not sweet and not-as-sexy-yet-more-conventially-appealing
blarghly@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
Slimegirl enthusiast over here
Wren@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
I’ve been waiting all my life for someone to put this into words.