RedRagan: For western countries that allow adult magazines and sites to thrive (and I don't mention the porn industry yet) many people are so uptight about a game with sex involved. Seriously there's thousands of games on GOG with no sex you can buy but y'all decided to wear that high and mighty purity boots and stomp around yelling at people as if this game will bring the antichrist along with it.
Hypocrites.
Darvond: It's not about purity or anything, it's that adding this male gaze does nothing to actually advance things mechanically and we're no longer horny teenagers on DSL or (if you're old enough) dial up networks, having to download 480 x 210 image of someone in what could
possibly be considered a state of undress.
I feel the phrasing is more, "Please don't tell me when to be horny". Why bother with the pretense of wrapping a whole game around a pornographic premise when horny teens already did that on Newgrounds in the 2000s? Which at least, only bother with minigames as a pretense?
So if i play games with voilence in them its because i must be voilent, wish to be voilent in the real world or wish to be influenced by voilence?
That begs the question why child abusers, phedofiles and rapists get treated badly by fellow prisoners
Acording to you
in a way
the other prisoners shoud get influenced or subjected to conversion so they become rapist , phedofiles, and child abusers themself
but instead this group of crimminals are one of the most looked down crimminals in the prison system
and wery few gets converted
In addition to that
Youre saying only male gaze
Do you have some kind of statestics or research that tells that there are only males that look upon these images?
An example of a work not radical in its time but seen as too explicit for later audiences, The Warren Cup was most likely proudly displayed in a Roman home, but then was considered too deviant for audiences right until the 1980s. Depicting a Greco-Roman practice called pederasty, where young men would take older men as mentors and sexual partners, the what would later be considered homosexual acts depicted on the cup were hidden from public display for centuries before their exhibition, after which they inspired countless gay artists and writers into more radical artworks.
The story of the seduction of Leda by Zeus disguised as a swan is filled with erotic potential, so its no wonder it has been attempted by so many, from Michelangelo (though his version is sadly lost) to Cezanne. However, Correggio’s is one of the most memorable, with its swan draped around a voluptuous Leda in front of an audience of similarly undressing figures. It is still erotic to this day, but in its time its sexuality was so outrageous that the Regent of Paris’ son stabbed the painting with a knife, to the extent that Leda’s face had to be repainted.
Those who know Rembrandt for his meditative masterpieces will be shocked by ‘The Monk in the Cornfield’ series. An almost cartoon-like portrait of a monk breaking his vows, it looks more at home on a pier-front postcard than a work from a burin of an Old Master. A make-money-quick scheme made during a period of financial turmoil, this image aimed to appeal to the base instincts of a lower class clientele, who could afford an etching but not a painting. To this day, these etchings remain a relative secret, although their frank depiction of unglamorised sex would find followers well into the 21st century.
Schiele’s work was so radical in its time that the artist actually spent time in prison for being a pornographer, and ‘Two Women’ is an example of the painter’s unashamed unromantic depiction of women (many of them sex workers) as sexual beings. The women of the title are at once sexy and scary, painted in mottled colors in Schiele’s masterly signature style. Schiele’s career was tragically cut short by his untimely death, but he did leave us with a kinky selection of nudes that would influence greats all the way to Lucian Freud, the ultimate master painter of flesh.
Perhaps best known in the Western world as the artist behind the often-reproduced ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’, many would be shocked by his other work as part of the Shunga tradition. Shunga, a Japanese genre meaning ‘spring pictures’ (spring being a Japanese euphemism for sex) are erotic prints completed in woodblock and feature copulating couples with often enlarged genitals. Although reaching their apex in the 17th and 18th century (astonishing when you consider the chasteness of Western art during this time), Hokusai’s later works are among the most stunning of the form, as you might expect from the master of the woodblock.
