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So, TIL that Gacha Life porn exists. And, honestly, *good*.
I almost wish I had the time, energy, and knowledge to do an entire analysis on this stuff, but, long story short, this comes off to me as a safe means of exploring sexuality and sex w/o having to confront the human body for young teens in sexually repressed areas and as a means to express and share these desires for those creating them. It's honestly kinda beautiful and I love it.
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I mean, just to relate my own experiences with sexuality and sex and all that as someone growing up in rural Texas, it seems to, in the former role, function much as gay furry porn did for me. Something that let me mentally experiment with various ideas without actually having to deal with the human body, a thing we kinda just learn to not talk about.
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But, yeah. In conclusion, people should have easy-to-use means to express themselves; death to cringe culture, people shouldn't be shamed for expressing themselves (unless, ofc, they're Nazis or whatever, but hopefully that's implied pretty well by, like, my general history of hating bigots and reactionaries and the like); and teens should have more tools to explore their own sexuality
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In the latter role, it seems to function sorta like games like WWE SvR 2011 did for me, a way to actually see my own fantasies play out. Or as traditional writing did for me, like with that (kinda awful, in hindsight) story about me getting raped by a Zoroark. Granted, I never shared, but it seems to be used as a means of actually seeing various fantasies play out and how they feel about them, or just to please themself