Sexual fantasies in video games

Yes, listen, there is nothing wrong with male power fantasies or male sexual fantasies in games. This does not mean that there are no examples of female power fantasies or male sexual fantasies, but at a systemic level in most media, the opposite is true. If the sex fantasies and power fantasies we see in games are right, then roughly 52% of them should be male power and fantasies and 48% should be female power and fantasies.

This is a strange situation because it raises the question of whether we can see a typical female fantasy versus a typical male AAA game. Perhaps the male fantasy in games is partly due to the lack of female-led AAA games that also feature love (as if Katherine was upside down, for example). The male fantasy in games is usually more active because it tends to pursue overly masculine traits of needing to save someone or work for one's partner. Of course, this takes other forms as well, such as flattering overly sexualized women, as we see in many other games where women are unnaturally proportioned and have skimpy armor.

A male sexual fantasy is someone made for the sexual pleasure of men and therefore much more interested in their appearance when kicking ass. The sexual fantasy includes a character that viewers should consider inherently sexual in the first place. Just like virtual games, some sexual fantasies are filled with all sorts of humiliating or violent acts that most people don't consider or accept as part of their normal sex life.

Another secret world in which some people act out deviant sexual scenarios and violent fantasies in their minds is during consensual sex or during entertainment. Fantasies enacted during video games or during sex are often extremely hot. Sexual fantasies have also been used as inspiration for video games called fantasy sex games.

Since then, a library of games has emerged depicting sex and sexuality in something close to good taste. To find out, Guardian game writers Kate Gray and Holly Nielsen replayed and discussed video game sex scenes all day long. We also searched for what other people liked about a video game sex scene and it came up over and over again.

Quite often, male fantasy is culturally and socially central, with softcore porn and sexualized female bodies prevalent in the media and video games in particular.

Video games are no exception, the female characters who fall prey to this trope become little more than a tool for male agency and violence, a vehicle for his story. The way these female characters are portrayed is also problematic, as they are often nothing more than the sexual fantasies of heterosexual men. Most of the female characters also have voluptuous and overly exaggerated body shapes, forms that not only do not represent the women playing, but may attract unwanted attention from the male players drooling over their characters.

Even though these women in fighting games are portrayed as physically strong, they are still a delight to the eye. Women in fighting games are dressed in large, baggy clothing that exposes their skin. Sure, it's nice to look at hypersexuality, but there's a reason athletic women don't dress like strippers.