sh.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus
Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Media Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5247-6807
University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
2023 (English)In: Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2023, Tampere: Digital Games Research Association , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Pornographic games have historically been distributed outside of mainstream channels. Steam, in 2018, change its policy allowing uncensored pornographic games to be sold. We found 452 games or DLCs that were tagged as mature content and sexual content. We analyzed 40 of those games in detail. 17.5% of these games only contain nudity while the rest graphically depicted sex. Visual novels and adventure games were the most numerous genres. Drama and fantasy were the most used milieus. Two of the games contained only male-male sex whereas the rest depicted heterosexual sex or heterosexualized same-sex sex. The pornographic scenes or nude images were tied to the game's progression structure.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Tampere: Digital Games Research Association , 2023.
Keywords [en]
Pornographic Games on Steam: Genres, Modes, and Milieus
National Category
Media and Communication Technology
Research subject
Other research area
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52696OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-52696DiVA, id: diva2:1812031
Conference
DiGRA 2023: Limits and Margins of Games, Seville, June 19-23, 2023.
Available from: 2023-11-15 Created: 2023-11-15 Last updated: 2023-11-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(557 kB)4265 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT02.pdfFile size 557 kBChecksum SHA-512
1426cf066c205639cd81d10912e1ec9c98824ed41e82d9ebbd188c130d157f064fb84a1e9aff040c0f8ec2c1cae1213632034d23ded95a0b351a0ece14cae061
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Lankoski, Petri

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Lankoski, Petri
By organisation
Media Technology
Media and Communication Technology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 4265 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 162 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf