Are Porn Games a Viable Market?

[Jumpin]

snyps said:

SvennoJ said:

There are big budget movies that go pretty far, of course heavily censored for TV like Eyes Wide Shut.
https://decider.com/2015/01/30/eyes-wide-shut-censored-vs-uncensored-gallery/#4
Or you just get a lot of complaints of too much graphic sex with movies like Blue is the warmest colour.

There is a vast difference between Europe and USA as well. European movies don't bat an eye at nudity, yet for movies to get shown in the USA you have to censor and cover up. Makes me laugh every time there is a 'sex scene' where they're either dressed or fully covered up in bed. Way too hot under the blankets for any action! Meanwhile crime shows are half the time about sex crimes, sex parties gone wrong. I guess the mindset in the USA still is that sex is bad.

When I think of porn, I think of graphic sex pushing and boundaries of social norms. If you put powerful stories behind a story with intense graphic sex, it could shake things up and set new norms into motion. Powers that be won’t go for massive shifts they can’t control. 

USA has plenty of movies with sensual nudity and tasteful sex. But not a lot of them with Oscar worthy scripts or actresses. 

Halle Berry won best actress for a film she had a sex scenes in. Sharon Stone was nominated for Casino and won the Golden Globe, she did sex scenes in that film (including a blowjob on Joe Pesci). Sharon Stone got a Golden Globe nomination for the controversial Vertigo inspired dark comedy thriller, Basic Instinct—I love Paul Verhoeven films… and adjectives (shut up Stephen King!). But yeah, both Berry and Stone got nominated for Razzies for the 2005 film Catwoman.

(just to explain the above, Stephen King famously hates adjectives. He’s not the first, Hemingway also famously hated adjectives. The hate goes all the way back to that quippy Parisian bastard, Voltaire).

Last edited by Jumpin - on 28 January 2023