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Written By: Eternal_Savvy
I’ve had a high libido for as long as I’ve been interested in sex, and it’s been a rough journey. Sex isn’t something people discuss in polite company, and as a teenager I often felt completely crazy because every time that I thought I had found someone who I could talk to about sex, I was met with a rejection, and always “that look.” A look that immediately made me feel a little more alone. I only ended up finding success in expressing my interests when I started to play the role of the sex-obsessed macho-man—a persona that was a poor fit for me and thankfully soon discarded. I didn’t want to just march around bragging about sexual exploits and measuring dicks. Talking about sex always somehow became a competition; proving how “manly” and “macho” you were with how many women you’d had sex with, and talking about who you had set your sights on to conquer. I never felt satisfied with the way that people expected me to treat sex because I wanted to talk more deeply about how it affected me. In the absence of conversation, I instead found that satisfaction in playing porn games. Eventually I came to realise they were capable of something that no other medium is: the ability to let us explore the deepest parts of ourselves safely, without the risk of harming others. Porn and sex have since become a passion within me that now affects almost every part of my life. I’m an artist, and a streamer, and I draw porn, and I talk pretty openly about sex and kinks on my streams. I do this because I know what it’s like to feel alone, and I want to be that voice I was so desperately looking for when I was younger. But I never really overcame that shame about my interest in porn and sex until recently.
I make a point of browsing what new adult games are available on Itch.io and Steam. I do this to find the porn with a little extra something: the sparks of conversations about game quality, potential, storytelling, or even just informed directions about what’s out there. The porn game scene is not exactly the most inspiring sight to behold at the moment. Many people don’t respect porn, and some developers will make glorified galleries locked behind shitty puzzles just to get your money. Now I’m not going to sit here and say that I don’t like capital “P” Porn, even as a means to an end I enjoy some good filthy fucking without much reason behind it. But the reason I do this is because I am looking for those people that see what I see in porn games; a medium that explores a part of being human that is not seen anywhere else, doing so by placing you in simulated situations where you can ask questions about yourself. I found that in a game I discovered in early 2025 called “Hazelnut Latte“.
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