Erotic Bethesda Mods and Sexuality

[JoeOGrant]

Why is it that some of the most popular mods for Bethesda games I have seen over the years have been those of an Erotic Nature? This is rhetorical, my intent is not to offend or belittle those who enjoy erotic content. I simply wonder what others thoughts are on the matter and I wish to express my own and spur discussion. :)

 

What is the typical age group of erotic mod users?

 

Having grown up playing and modding the following: Morrowind when I was 11-14, Oblivion when I was 15-17, Fallout 3 and New Vegas when I was 17-20 and now Skyrim 20-21 I can reflect on my personal experience on my perference for various mods. :psyduck:

 

I can say I was mostly interested in using cheat, houses and city mods and such when I was young playing Morrowind. Eventually I discovered mods of an erotic nature and being a young teenager with raging hormones :dance: , they were very appealing to me. This carried through while playing Oblivion as I continued to go through puberty and was largely interested in things of a sexual nature as I am sure most mid-aged teenagers can attest to.

 

However by the time I was playing Fallout New Vegas I simply lost interest in erotic mods as my sexuality began maturing and I felt more compelled to play the games the way Lore intended them to be.

 

Now playing Skyrim I have absolutely no interest at all in using mods of an unrealistic or erotic aesthetic. I don't like turning my game into an erotic fashion show :kiss: , I find myself enjoying the way the setting was intended by the designers and thus I dislike using mods that conflict with lore now as well. :geek:

 

Anyone else have similar experiences growing up?

 

I feel that the majority of erotic mod users are in fact under the age of 18. While this is speculation, I draw this from my personal experience growing up with this modding community and playing Bethesda games from preteen to young adult. Teenagers simply are more likely to compromise the games' immersion and strong story telling in favor of eroticism and surrealism due to the novel factor of nudity and sexual immaturity. :dry:

Is over-indulgence in virtual eroticism a bad thing?

 

Not trying to hate here, but I believe that those who indulge excessively in the use of sexual and erotic mods and more especially those that create unrealistic representations of the female (or male) body are either teenagers or sexually frustrated adults. Not going all Freudian here ( btw I'm in grad school for psychology) but I feel like venting sexual energy through a video game is mentally unhealthy.

 

Because sexual libido is such a powerful energy, it can be dangerous to create associations with unrealistic portrayals of eroticism, not to mention the fluctuating emotional entropy created from a lack of any social connection with objects of lust, in other words: excessive lusting over imaginary characters :wub: can lead to emotional chaos in real world relationships :blink: , be it sexual or friendly.

 

In Conclusion:

 

I'm lazy and cannot recall nor do I wish to draw my sources for this information, but rest assured much of what I say is based on empirical data, I have read many a study on this subject and it is to be my final dissertation in graduate school.

 

Still I can appreciate artists' fine work and I guess some people just love to turn everything in Bethesda games into an unrealistic yet beautiful and overly-erotic setting. But know that you can be playing with fire and you ought to consider being more engaged in gratifying real-life sexual relationships. But for teenagers (and a lesser extent , young adults) it is quite normal to be obsessed with eroticism during a time of sexual development.

But take caution you so called sexually mature individuals 21 and up.

 

To those of you I say: read 50 Shades of Grey, spank it at most once a day, find a partner that will allay, your sexual frustration and dismay, then play games the proper way. :hurr:

[colourwheel]

Over all "sex" sells in any market. Although sometimes people do out grow of using mods that have an erotic theme or nature, the demographics for mods that add a sex appeal to gaming will always be high because of the existing Video game content rating system. Since mods do not have to uphold any rating standards the obvious and most popular modding would probably be the modding one could not normally experience within the standard Video game content rating system by defualt for any gender.

 

Normally mainstream software devolopers will stay from adding any sexual themed content at all in fear of the game rating becoming too high reducing the Demographic age chart they can actually market the game too. Ussually gaming with strong sexual and graphic material will get an automatic Adult Rating reguardless how chessy or unrealistic or even being sexually arousing at all. With this in mind software devolopers tend to stay away from anything higher than Mature rating so thier product can be marketed to a wider range of gamers.

Edited January 12, 2013 by colourwheel

[Ghogiel]

The internet is for porn.

 

rule 34

 

etc.

[HeyYou]

There are entire communities dedicated to erotic mods..... Some even go so far as rape, and slavery.... (I am looking at YOU, *site not allowed*.....) These are not sites populated by pubescent teens either.... these are adults writing mods.... of a somewhat less than savory nature.... I was quite surprised when I stumbled across them. Although, in retrospect, I suppose I shouldn't be....

 

On a side note, something I WOULD like to see, is a mod that lets me tell Braith where she can stick it, or allow me to casually backhand the little snot that keeps mumbling about boot-lickers, and such.... Why are the children in skyrim so annoying?? Especially in Whiterun.

[Rennn]

There are a few likely reasons. One is hormones, as you said.

 

Another reason is that sex is considered taboo in many cultures. When something like the internet comes along, all those repressed feelings use it as an outlet.

[JoeOGrant]

On a side note, something I WOULD like to see, is a mod that lets me tell Braith where she can stick it, or allow me to casually backhand the little snot that keeps mumbling about boot-lickers, and such.... Why are the children in skyrim so annoying?? Especially in Whiterun.

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/774 - Killable Children. If you are feeling merciful towards that little sh** you can simply beat her face in a couple times, but I already murdered her in her sleep. :devil: Now are you afraid of your elders little girl? Or you can threaten to hurt her or send her to an orphanage if she continues bullying Lars. That brought me so much joy.

 

...Am I am a bad person?

[JimboUK]

Sexuality in games is bad but killing children is fine? that sums up everything that is wrong with todays world.

[Aegrus]

I typically install erotic mods. I never used to--I'm sure in large part it's because I didn't know how to mod in my mid teens. XD Now that I'm a bit older, have privacy, and know how to mod, it doesn't interest me so much, but I still tend to install mods with sexual content, such as animated prostitution. even if I rarely/never use them. I always install nude mods, but I install both male and female nude mods, then proceed to never even take anyone's clothes off unless they have armor that I want. It's pretty much just a realism thing for me. I also installed the "Get Drunk" mod, but then proceeded to never even touch alcohol in Skyrim. I installed killable children, then never hurt any children. The option being there, even if I never use it, makes the game seem more real.

 

I agree that overly sexual mods, like any media or outside influence, will color real-world behavior to a certain extent. However, we have to consider that, as technology has increased over the years, sexism has decreased. I'm not arguing that technology has led to a decrease in sexism--that's mere correlation, not causation. What I am saying, however, is that unrealistic mods don't seem to be adversely affecting people enough to reverse forward social progress.

Edited January 13, 2013 by Aegrus

[Maharg67]

It would be interesting to see more realistic 'adult' mods added such as an island civilization where nudity, or seminudity, is not such a taboo. Many cultures have had bare breasted women as normality and continue to do so in some areas of the world. A modded island could be seen as mildly erotic but its purpose could be to create a society something like the Ancient Egyptian one or African tribal ones or Pacific Islander ones. Costumes would be more 'authentic' if seminudity or nudity was allowed.The emphasis would be not on titillation but on more immersive game play.

 

Such things as 'erotic' fertility dances could be seen as part of a culture and not as a sexual display created to entertain.

 

The island mod is only one idea though I am not sure how such changes could be made to Skyrim, or other games, while not moving too far away from canon.

Edited January 13, 2013 by Maharg67

[Rennn]

It would be interesting to see more realistic 'adult' mods added such as an island civilization where nudity, or seminudity, is not such a taboo. Many cultures have had bare breasted women as normality and continue to do so in some areas of the world. A modded island could be seen as mildly erotic but its purpose could be to create a society something like the Ancient Egyptian one or African tribal ones or Pacific Islander ones. Costumes would be more 'authentic' if seminudity or nudity was allowed.The emphasis would be not on titillation but on more immersive game play.

 

Such things as 'erotic' fertility dances could be seen as part of a culture and not as a sexual display created to entertain.

 

The island mod is only one idea though I am not sure how such changes could be made to Skyrim, or other games, while not moving too far away from canon.

 

I've thought about converting the Forsworn to reflect said cultural trait, but it'd be more work to convert them than it would be to just make a new faction somewhere.

 

Something that I have done was to make some groups of [both male and female] witches nude. That has a series precedent (Daggerfall) and a real-world precedent. I took that mod down since it wasn't as polished as I'd like. Sometimes the new npcs walked into trees and such, and their AI was sparse. Since you've reminded me, maybe I'll finish that sometime.

Edited January 13, 2013 by Rennn