Degeneracy In Gaming | A Hot Topic

Since the revealing of Baldur Gate III's in-game bear shenanigans the developer has doubled down on it's included degeneracy. Noting the addition of genitalia customization within the game's character creation menu. Why I bring light to this is that the gaming industry has double standards in what it deems problematic, especially in regards to adult content. Often times we see developers forced to censor or cut out character features that attract the "male gaze". Be it nudity or partial nudity of females. At the same time certain other nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit features that cater to the LGBTQ+ community are let through with no censorship at all. This blatant hypocrisy obviously comes with a political agenda.

Gaming isn't the only platform in which this kind of hypocritical censorship takes place, and in fact on Youtube, which houses gaming content, said hypocrisy bleeds through just as much. As an example, I had a God of War III sex mini-game video taken down, because of nudity. Youtube actually cracks down hard on this type of content. At the same time they let slip actual nudity from Youtubers that fits the LGBTQ+ narrative. You may or may not heard of this incident, but there's a video being allowed by Youtube where a male Youtuber has his bumhole on full display alongside his junk. Right in the face of the viewer. Youtube will not strike this or take it down. They'll certainly take down sexy video game content though that is more male gaze friendly. 

I'm a gamer who realizes there are methods in place to let the gamer, and their parents know what they are getting into. It's called an ESRB rating, and it's there for that very reason. This should be plenty enough to allow adult content through for those old enough to experience it, but for some reason governing bodies would rather police content so that it all goes through their biased screening process for agenda sake. If we were to be honest with ourselves there is definitely an agenda at play in regards to this censorship, and it is very political. You could easily assume it's for demonizing sexual content that would inspire sexual relations which could produce children, or even that it's to encourage sexual preferences that will not lead to the birth of children. Either way one thing is for certain. This is not a fair censoring of content, and is definitely not warranted with a rating/age system in place. 

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