Warning: This article contains a few images that could be considered not safe for work/school. One has some nipple-less boobs. Another has a non-nude sexual position. It's probably best, like with any article, to just read it in a place where you can't get fired or expelled.I was once a simple man with a simple dream. I wanted to install pornographic Skyrim mods that would let me have lots of sex, go on sensual quests, and shoot lightning bolts out of my tits. I was going to write about my adventures for your horrified amusement and then quietly revisit this magical land on Saturday nights when I was drunk and lonely. I thought it was a modest goal.
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I thought wrong. Most Skyrim mods are easy to find. If massive are brightly lit storefronts, adult mods are hidden behind the counter in a crumpled box, the storekeeper looking at you with judging eyes when you mutter your request.
These are dark corners of the Internet, friend, and you'd best not tread in them.The largest and most wretched hive of orc blowjobs is, because nothing says eroticism like the cold, sterile confines of an experimental science facility. The two forums dedicated to Skyrim porn have a combined 578,389 posts. For comparison, Cracked's General Discussion forum and, the beating heart of this site, have 522,291. There are more people dedicated to adding sex to Skyrim than there were dedicated to adding.
And if you think Skyrim is passe, you'll be pleased to know their reign of erotic Fallout 4 terror has only just begun.LoversLabIDEA At least finish the story first, guys. The site is clad in a darkness perfect for late-night browsing in a home love left long ago. Only the porn ads provide brightness, along with reminders that you could at least be masturbating to real women who will never sleep with you as opposed to fictional women who are physically incapable of doing so despite the tragedy of being programmed to desire it very much.
My initial strategy was the same as it is with my sexuality in general - get in, do what needs to be done, get out, and never speak of it again. But the world of Skyrim sex lured me into its depths like lost Atlantis, tantalizing me with discoveries I'd never forget despite my deep desire to do so.
I would understand if these mods were buried in the depths of sketchy foreign file-share sites shrouded in spyware and silence. But users swap fictional sex stories the way other players swap tales of slaying dragons. Ripped middle-aged warriors proving irresistible to coquettish Cyrodiil schoolgirls, midget heroes having rough sex with their giant hermaphrodite allies, foursomes with ancient zombified warriors, a woman in the skin of a slaughtered bear having sex with an actual bear - all these and more regaled like a bro at the bar bragging about his latest conquest to resounding applause from his bro brothers. In another age, these people would have gathered at the local gentlemen's club and discussed the merits of the new Tijuana bible about Little Orphan Annie getting a boob job and a fist up her ass. 'Mm, yes, my manhood showed great interest.' LoversLabSpoiler alert: The 'hidden contents' are pictures of naked, dead-eyed automatons. These are not just people who want to see frost trolls get dicks.
These are people who will stay up until the wee hours debating the appropriate contours of the dick and whether it ejaculates enough semen for a fictional ice monster. They've dedicated a massive chunk of their limited free time on this Earth to eroticizing a game about shouting at fantasy Norwegians. I went in expecting to find quick ways to make lightning boobs for your amusement, and came out hours later a changed man. I witnessed an anime-faced girl whose few remaining articles of clothing made her resemble a sexy SS officer give a b.b to a hellhound in what appeared to be a tastefully minimalist modern apartment, an experience so far removed from the Skyrim I understand that it might as well have been two Martians reading each other love poems. I gazed too long into this abyss, and it ejaculated on my face. I soon learned that adding sex to Skyrim is like adding missile launchers to your car.
It's technically feasible, but the framework wasn't built to handle it and will buckle under such a precarious weight. Images that looked sensual became stilted and mechanical in motion, like a computer having a fevered dream of what love is even as it knows it will never be able to experience it. No amount of care put into these custom animations and textures - and there are many, many hours of care - can overcome the basic fact that Skyrim was not built with sex in mind. It's like trying to bathe in your kitchen sink. It's technically possible, but it was never intended for that purpose.
I have never seen a greater representation of the uncanny valley than a hellhound's bulbous penis clipping through the lips and teeth of a girl who's supposed to be uncontrollably aroused, yet whose dead eyes suggest an emptiness that a human being would struggle to comprehend, even one traumatized by the horrors of the concentration camps her outfit suggests she supervises when she's not fellating dogs. Something behind those eyes is begging for death even through her shell of a body can't comprehend the concept.
It only knows, on some fundamental level, that it's preferable to its current situation.LoversLabThe true horror is captured in this, but don't say I didn't warn you. But, as I was still naive, I thought I could make this work. I thought I could tell a story that was amusing, instead of unleashing a dark vision of a future where a dog penis penetrates a human simulacrum's mouth forever. The ability to give my character testicles larger than his head? Sexy magic that makes people undress at my command?
Sure, that could be funny. The ability to cast magic from my nipples? Achieve orgasm from riding a horse? Alicia Painslut, who will fight by my side and orgasm if she takes enough damage, perhaps while on one of many new sexy quests like the daring raid of a sex-trafficking ring? A new and erotic? The list went on and on.LoversLabMs.
Painslut, who's had 26 major updates and 1,586 postsof discussion about her since 2013. My ambition outweighed my common sense, and I downloaded far more mods than I needed.
But these mods are not simply switches you turn off and on. You have to change the core files of the game to make them work. I lost an entire workday poring through documentation, FAQs, and troubleshooting guides, and to limited success. The only sentence grimmer than 'I spent a day of my life installing erotic Skyrim mods' is 'I spent a day of my life trying to install erotic Skyrim mods and mostly failed.'
Furthermore, mods can often conflict. You need to install A for B to work, but A doesn't work alongside C, but you can't lose C if you want D. Trying to get everything to play nice together, and all within the depths of a file system I didn't fully understand, was maddening. Sometimes the game simply crashed, like it knew what I was trying to accomplish and refused to be an accomplice to it.
After many hours I got the basics working, but like a mad scientist destroyed by his own unholy creation, I came to regret my hard work. The goal was for Throgg to get into a variety of sexy shenanigans like the hero of a teen comedy.
Instead, he found himself in a surreal sexual nightmare, like H.R. Giger crossed with the wet dreams of a 12-year-old who touches his action figures inappropriately.Many mods technically worked, but they were pale imitations of the already pale imitations they were supposed to be. Throgg's erection was merely a green cylinder without texture, like the peg from a child's shape-matching toy. He thrust in the general direction of his partners' ill-defined orifices but was rarely accurate, instead preferring to penetrate their torsos or nearby air currents. This was of no concern to his lovers, who played their role in this grotesque pantomime without complaint. They can speak no objection.
Such is not their station. Adrianne then walks by without comment, unconcerned that the man she slept with moments ago is inside another woman. She is not programmed to be jealous, or even self-aware. That would be inconvenient. I could even still buy goods from shopkeepers after magically making them so aroused they'd rip off their clothes and publicly masturbate, because these aren't mods to add adult realism.
They're meant to annihilate what little realism the game had.Bethesda Softworks'So, look, are you buying something or not?' I understand why someone would want to add sex to Skyrim. You can have PG-13 sex in games like Fable and Dragon Age, because you're roleplaying as a powerful, attractive adult - why wouldn't romance be an option?
But here it's enacted by unaware participants as part of a fantasy of endless sexual conquest so clinical and detached you feel like a scientist observing a foreign species, complete with statistical tracking.Bethesda SoftworksOK, so maybe two girls in six and a half minutes and a complete lack of oral sex skill is kind of realistic. Only in retrospect did I appreciate the full horror of what I had unleashed. At the time I was simply pissed that my idea wasn't working. Why could I craft and equip a leather horse c.k but not see or use it?
Why was magic still casting from my hands? Painslut not where I was told she'd be? Had I done all that one-handed research for nothing?
Even the sex was deeply flawed. I'm no sexologist - I'll even admit that I sometimes have trouble finding a girl's ovipositor - but I'm pretty sure it isn't supposed to look like this:Bethesda Softworks'Oh, baby, I love it when you meld into my armpit.'
I couldn't tell Throgg's story with such blatant technical errors. Who would spend 10 minutes reading a column about Skyrim sex tourism if they didn't believe in the world? But I like to think of myself as fairly computer savvy. If I had friends, I'd be the guy they called for tech support after accidentally installing 17 toolbars and malware that turns their cursor into a unicorn. So I was going to try again, and I was going to treat this task with the absolute seriousness it deserved. On a beautiful autumn Saturday, when other people were busy not squandering their precious days, I locked myself in my room with the goal of making Skyrim sex work. Why yes, ladies, I am single.
I wiped the game clean for a fresh start. I watched several lengthy video tutorials.
I found the right documentation on LoversLab in a sea of outdated and irrelevant information, and I studied every word written with the technical forthrightness of your phone's latest patch notes. I downloaded only the mods I knew would be essential to Throgg's story of elf blowjobs.
I installed them one by one and carefully followed the instructions, ensuring files like sdsRomanceBoobJGive.pex and APFistingA2S4.hkx went where they belonged.This is the file directory a horny Terminator sees. I fired the game up. I took a deep breath and imagined the entire universe being consumed in a sudden cataclysm, forever eliminating all evidence of the sadness that had unfolded in my room that day. Then I downloaded a special mod manager.Mod managers are programs designed to ensure that all your mods are up to date, have the prerequisite mods installed, aren't conflicting with other mods, and so on. If, say, 'Schlongs Of Skyrim' and 's.t Shout' weren't getting along together, this should let me know.Mod Organizer. But there was a problem.
Two, if you count that staring at that screen on a Saturday night made me want to put a gun in my mouth. While I was able to resolve the worst issues, it became clear that I had again screwed up somewhere when installing everything, presumably because it's hard to follow instructions when your eyes are bleeding.
Skyrim sex was still an illogical nightmare, and Ms. Painslut still taunted me with her continued absence. She was going to get such a beating if I ever found her. But that night I had an even more pressing problem. There were only two beers in the fridge, and I was going to need a lot more. I think we both know which option I chose.
But I didn't do it as part of Throgg's wacky adventures, a premise I had at some point abandoned without even realizing it. I did it because I spent a day of my life figuring out how to let a dog f.k my Skyrim character, so goddammit, I was going to let a dog f.k my Skyrim character.I watched with exhausted detachment as my mighty orc stripped and kneeled on the cold cobbles, like a prisoner of war being told to kneel in front of an empty trench. As the dog emotionlessly mounted me, his penis invisible because I had mercifully erred somewhere, a child walked.
'You're naked!' She laughed before running off, unconcerned as to why an animal was squirting something onto my anus. Then, when it was over and Throgg began his walk of shame, this message appeared.Bethesda Softworks.
I stared at it, uncomprehending. What was it trying to say? Was it supposed to be 'You love f.g animals,' an acknowledgment that I enjoyed the services this mod provided? Or was it a sarcastic 'You love animals, f.k,' as in 'Holy s.t, you are way too into animals'? Was the dog-f.g mod mocking me? I closed the game, turned off my computer, and sat in silence.I realized that little girl was right. When you've dedicated that much time to letting a virtual dog sodomize your virtual stand-in, I don't care how ironically detached you are - you ask yourself some questions.
Like, 'What does it say about modern civilization that people have the free time to design dog-f.g mods, and then I get paid to write about them?' And, 'Is there something seriously wrong with me? Like, on a fundamental level?'
Bethesda SoftworksAt least Lillith doesn't question me. I was also conflicted about my failure.
Was I an idiot for not figuring out the technical nuances of a system that a forum full of people who jerk off to video games had mastered? Why did that bother me if the only people who would judge me for my ineptitude were those same masturbators? Had I let my employer down by failing to deliver the Skyrim sex travelogue I had promised?
What am I doing with my life if that's even a valid question? When's the last time I talked to another human being? Why is my penis out?I found satisfactory answers to some of those questions, but others still haunt me. And while I haven't played Skyrim since that fateful day, I think I'm going to wipe it clean and give it a go.
Throgg and I are going to smash some heads, and that's not a euphemism. And if in some forgotten corner of the map we discover Alicia Painslut, we will simply tell her we have no need for her services and leave for our next adventure. You can read more from Mark, including all about how he got mad laid in Oblivion, at.Skyrim is a pretty transformative experience here at Cracked. See how it prompted Robert Brockway to deal with his boring personality in, and see the other side of the Skyrim relationship (what has our world come to?) in.Subscribe to our channel to see why taking sex advice from video games is a bad idea in, and watch other videos you won't see on the site!Also follow us on, because we'll be here for you when your video game relationship fails and you need a place to vent.Tonight only! You're invited to a LIVE PODCAST where Cracked editors will talk post-apocalyptic movie worlds with scientists and special guests at UCB in Los Angeles!
Warning: This article contains explicit descriptions and discussion of sexual violence.The desire to see videogame characters naked existed long before whispers of Tomb Raider nude codes. These days, by way of game-altering player-made mods, turning that desire into reality has never been easier. Despite Skyrim being rated 'Mature' by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, the base game is actually very light on sexual content—just a few offhand references and some suggestive clothing.
However, Skyrim also has one of the most flexible modding frameworks of any game, enabling amateur artists and programmers to change the original content in ways that the developer never intended.Using mods, you can now add elements of survival games, rework the combat, or turn all the dragons into. And with those same tools, modders have also been able to turn Skyrim into a sexual playground encompassing almost any kink imaginable.
At first I imagined my headfirst dive into the world of Skyrim sex mods would be an evening spent bumping uglies with werewolves or inciting orgies in Whiterun—and it largely was. But my quest to see what Skyrim’s sex modding scene offered also opened the doors to far more controversial sexual content that I wasn't prepared for.
This is a community that hasn't left many stones unturned. Sex in SkyrimAshal isn't exactly the type of person I'd expect to be running the largest adult modding community on the internet. He's quiet and aloof—not like the digital Hugh Hefner I had in mind when I first set out to meet him. But if there's one person you could attribute to the massive community of adult-themed mods, it's Ashal. More than just owner of the massive sex mod community, LoversLab, his SexLabs mod is the paint and canvas that allows thousands of modders to bring their desires to life inside of Skyrim.
To date it's been downloaded over 2.7 million times. While the mod does nothing by itself, it provides a foundation of thousands of animations and basic game functions that others can expand upon. A sexual arousal system, for example, essentially quantifies how horny a character might become from witnessing various sexual acts.When we first talk, it's hours after midnight—the only time Ashal can talk freely without risking his housemates overhearing our discussion.
Despite LoversLabs' massive popularity and the $2,000 a month it earns through Patreon, no one in Ashal's real life knows what he does for a living. 'My parents know I run a community site—I leave it at that,' he says.LoversLab and its roughly 1.5 million members are responsible for thousands of mods that meticulously cover every aspect of sexuality. It's such a massive community that even on a Monday morning there are over 1,700 active users. The mod Schlongs of Skyrim, to take one example, provides an exhaustive suite of options for tailoring every aspect of a character's penis to make it look just right. And then there are mods like Devious Devices, an incredibly in-depth series of BDSM mods that give players every bondage or domination tool they could dream of. Devious Devices doesn't just stock your inventory full of whips and chains, but also includes quests to provide some erotic inspiration for roleplaying.' I don't want to see sex scenes for the sake of seeing sex.
I want them embedded in a meaningful story or setting.' Kimy'I prefer mods with a bondage-themed focus and the ones that add erotic content to the game without making sex scenes their sole reason for existence,' says Kimy. She's a 30-year-old software engineer who manages Devious Devices after inheriting it from another member.
'I don't want to see sex scenes for the sake of seeing sex. I want them embedded in a meaningful story or setting. A lot of LoversLab mods actually provide just that, which to me is their main benefit over porn. My specific focus—bondage—isn't even necessarily pornographic in nature. Bondage play can involve or result in sex, but doesn't have to.' Getting tied up in Devious Devices often requires finding special items or completing special quests to get free.Aside from sex, roleplaying is probably the most common theme on LoversLab. The appeal isn't always the sex itself, but the way mods like Devious Devices weave sensuality and play into the stories players are telling through their characters.Like Ashal, Kimy says her status as one of the most popular sex modders is a closely kept secret.
'I suppose it's sort of natural, given that we're still living in a society that shuns every notion of expressing sexuality in public or in the media beyond holding hands and kisses,' Kimy says. 'We might be friends for life with someone and discuss every imaginable topic with them—except sex. That one is usually only touched, if at all, very superficially so. I sometimes imagine what my friends would say if I told them that I was creating bondage mods.
If they were honest, I would probably hear 'cool, I am into cuffs and ropes, too!' Surprisingly often.'
But LoversLab is different. The anonymity of it lets people like Kimy shed their fears of judgment and express themselves both online and in Skyrim. Ashal tells me that 'no kink-shaming' is one of the community's biggest rules. For him and Kimy, LoversLab is a welcoming place for people of all sexual inclinations—even ones they don't agree with. Nothing to the imaginationThat includes popular LoversLab mods like More Nasty Creatures, which allows you to engage in all manner of sexual encounters with the local wildlife of Skyrim. With the push of a few buttons, you can watch a giant use your Dragonborn like a Fleshlight.
Though they make my skin crawl, I'm sure someone out there has risked a hagraven's diseases just to say they've fucked one. And, of course, you can consume more of dragons than just their souls.' I'm painfully uninterested in bestiality,' Ashal says. It feels a little ironic then that he must carry the burden of his community's sexual fetishes by programming the functionality into SexLabs.
'I only added it because so many people were asking for it. I was like, fine, I'll spend the next month watching bears give oral sex to my character so I can finish this feature.'
'I'm painfully uninterested in bestiality. I only added it because so many people were asking for it.' AshalBut it turns out that bestiality with mythical creatures only scratches the surface of the uncomfortable subject matter available via LoversLab.With just under a million downloads, the fourth-most downloaded mod on LoversLab is SexLab Defeat (it uses the SexLab name, but Ashal isn't affiliated with it). Because nothing shatters the illusion of roleplaying quite like dying, SexLab Defeat introduces a host of scenarios that occur in lieu of death.
In concept, I'd love to see more roleplaying games make death more interesting than a timeout or loss of progress, but SexLab Defeat's solutions center around rape.Using SexLab Defeat, players can sexually assault NPCs at will or become the victim of a sexual assault themselves. Built on Ashal's framework, the mod uses many of the same animations and features, but presented outside of the context of consensual sex.
It's not the only mod like this. Others simulate sexual assault to a troubling degree, including victims exhibiting emotional trauma by crying after their assault is over.Necrophilia, bestiality, and rape mods are all common and popular on the site. In fact, the only thing that is strictly off limits is anything involving children. I ask Ashal about LoversLab's loose policies, especially with regards to rape. 'I obviously don't condone that kind of thing,' he says.
'That's where people get confused, they think that fantasizing about it is the same as condoning it. I wouldn't agree with that—there's a line between fantasy and reality.' Given the incredibly damaging consequences of real world sexual violence, I was troubled by the idea of players acting it out, even in a fantastical context. I reached out to Heather McPherson, an AASECT certified sex therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and founder and CEO of the Sexual Health Alliance to get an expert opinion. I asked her if there's any correlation between fantasizing about rape and a propensity to carry out a sexual assault in real life. 'There's no correlation, the data is very poor to back that kind of statement up,' she says. 'We have a lot of fantasies, some include sex, some don't, but there's a lot of things we fantasize about that we never actually want to do.
It's a way for our mind to work out things or heal certain parts of ourselves, it's a way to better understand a situation and work through things that we're feeling.' The Hidielle Follower mod is one of the highest rated mods thanks to its professional-quality art.Research into the psychology of rape fantasies suggests similar conclusions. Published by Joseph Critelli and Jenny Bivona, researchers at the University of North Texas, combined 20 studies to explore why between 31 and 57 percent of women 'have fantasies in which they are forced into sex against their will.' The answer to why such fantasies are so common is of course complicated, but at no point do the findings suggest a correlation between a fantasy involving forced sex and wanting to experience such a scenario in real life. In fact, the term 'rape fantasy' is even misleading because the nuance of such fantasies can be a lot more complex.
'Our society idealizes and romanticizes sexual aggression as an expression of passion and 'how much' someone cares or is overcome by desire,' Dr. David Ley, a clinical psychologist and sex therapist, writes to me in email. 'Such fantasies also appear to be ways in which people may overcome histories of sexual trauma or fear of sexual trauma. Ultimately, the 'why' is less important. There are many, many different reasons for these fantasies.
The more important thing is for us to accept and acknowledge them as a part of human sexuality.' 'Ultimately, the 'why' is less important.
There are many, many different reasons for these fantasies. The more important thing is for us to accept and acknowledge them as a part of human sexuality.'
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David LeyUnderstanding a forced-sex fantasy from the perspective of the victim has been the subject of many studies, but there's much less research exploring the fantasy from the other perspective. If fantasizing about being forced into sex doesn't correlate to a desire to experience rape in real life, can the same be said for fantasizing about raping someone?' Research on rape proclivities and behavior suggests that only around 6 to 8 percent of males engage in actual rape/sexual assault across their lifetime, but around 40 to 60 percent of males report fantasies of it, or of forcing a person into sex,' Dr. 'UCLA researcher Neil Malamuth's work suggests that there is a small group of men, perhaps around 5 to 7 percent, who are at risk of engaging in sexual violence by virtue of their predispositions, and that things like violent media (such as porn or perhaps videogames) may increase the chances those men will act violently.
But, the important thing is that it is the predisposing characteristics, such as antisocial personality, misogyny, substance use, mental illness, which really drive the risk. Violent media serves a very small part.' Ley acknowledges that this is still a contentious area of science. With so many other factors to consider, like the majority of rapes going unreported and varying cultural attitudes toward sexual violence, the research is far from conclusive. That's why the the laws around pornographic material involving simulated rape are also different according to country.
In England, for example, the amended the ' of 2008 to ban the possession of pornographic images that depicted consensual or simulated acts of rape. But it’s unclear if videogame mods fall under that definition. In the US, however, there are no such laws beyond those intended to prevent the distribution of child-related pornography.I reached out to Bethesda get their perspective on modding sex into Skyrim. After all, there is precedent for developers because of controversial subject matter. However, highly open games like Skyrim can be modified in any number of ways by users who are part of communities which publishers don’t control. 'We do not police mods available on third party sites,' a spokesperson tells me, adding that the company only maintains restrictions on mods that are uploaded through their own site. The result is that communities like LoversLab are effectively self-regulating.
Distribution platforms like Steam might enforce certain standards, but game developers can’t account for all the ways their games might be reprogrammed and hosted elsewhere. Fantasy and realityI reached out to SexLab Defeat's creator, Goubo, to get his perspective.
He tells me that he began working on the mod as a way to teach himself programming and that his version is actually a port of an already existing mod called Defeat. 'Rape fantasies are absolutely not something I would enjoy in real life in any way really,' he writes. 'Actual rape is something that disgusts me and shocks me like every normal person. But at the end of the day my brain can make the difference between fake and reality. That's the whole point and judging from the popularity of my mod I guess I'm not alone.
It is a fantasy and it stays that way. It's just a taboo one that people have a hard time discussing.' Goubo also argues that mods like SexLabs Defeat also make Skyrim more 'realistic' by suggesting that a sexual assault would likely be the outcome if a group of bandits managed to capture a female Dragonborn.'
My own mod features some non-consensual sex as well, but at no point it suggests that forcing someone into a sexual act is OK to do,' Kimy says. 'And, to me, that's the important difference.
Sexual violence is a reality. Women are exposed to it on an absolutely daily basis. I am not aware of too many women who didn't fall victim to verbal or physical sexual violence at least once in her life.
Showing this in a fictitious context is OK, maybe to a certain degree even necessary. But glorifying it is not. That's where I personally draw the line.' 'Sexual violence is a reality. Women are exposed to it on an absolutely daily basis.'
KimyKimy suggesting that exploring sexual violence in fiction might be necessary is an interesting argument. During my research, I also spoke with Dr. Chris Rose and Dr. Victoria Beck, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. They are in the process of publishing a study that measures what impact, if any, exposure to sexual violence in videogames, primarily Grand Theft Auto 5, has on a person. Their preliminary findings weren't what they expected.
'What was actually happening was the test subject's rape myths and their attitudes about victim blaming were getting better,' Dr. While sex is almost a universal theme of every mod on LoversLab, where to draw the line is a decision that falls to each member.
The internet age has taught us that there's a much wider spectrum of sexuality beyond what each of us might find comfortable. But Skyrim modders go further by exploring these subjects through interactivity. 'No kink-shaming is a core tenet of the site. These are all destructive things in the real world I'd never even dream of condoning, but there is a disconnect between real life and a fictional or virtual roleplay context,' Ashal reiterates.When I set out to first write this story in November, I never expected to discover such uncomfortable subject matter.
But it's also a topic that clearly warrants examination and discussion.Mods like Defeat, and the players who use them, are only one part of LoversLab—but they also represent a dilemma that stems from having the free and open communities we often celebrate as PC gamers. Modding has always been seen as a vibrant expression of creativity, a kind of dialogue between gamers and developers that gives rise to amazing projects like the, essentially a new game built inside of Skyrim. But mods also enable creators and players to explore interests and taboos that can deeply upset or concern many people.The freedom of the internet already provides many ways to explore these ideas, and maybe mods are just another expression of the desire to do so.
But whether some of these mods are even legal, the cultural implications and psychological impact they have, and who should be responsible for regulating them are all questions we should be considering carefully.