Must be women that didn't live through it then...
If so many such games were written by women, then I'd appreciate them to make games that can be enjoyed by women. Getting raped, blackmailed and cohersed really isn't my idea of "fun". Doing that is more of a man's thing, and a Japanes man above all.
If any female or otherwise game makers read this post: please please please, make more games where women too can enjoy sex and eroticism!
I'm still hoping, for instance, to ever find a game with femdom where the fem is the protagonist instead of the guy being subdued. Or a harem game where a female can create a harem of men.
I welcome any suggestions.
I mean... for most women in civilized countries, rape is that thing that happens to other people. Even if you assume that that the percentage of rapes PLUS attempted rape is something like 4 times higher than what's reported or otherwise discovered through criminal investigation, that still leads to something like ~8% of women in Japan experiencing anything like attempted rape or outright rape, based on what statistics I could find online.
That trend tends to be similar in a lot of countries outside of places like say... Africa, where the percentages become absolutely massive. I've heard some unpleasant rumors about certain muslim countries with extremist sects as well...
The point is, for the average person that gets into writing stuff like hentai or even erotica, the odds are extremely high that they've never encountered sexual abuse in their entire lives. As such, even if they're intellectually aware that, y'know, rape is a horrible thing, it doesn't stop them from doing weird things with it in their fantasies, where it's all nice and safe. Not to mention that not everyone self-inserts into the fantasy either.
This is leaving aside the fact that rape in most of these games is extremely unrealistic to the point of being ridiculous most of the times. (There are some games that treat it differently, but they're generally the exception.)
You also have to account for the fact that not everyone responds to trauma in the same way. For some victims, rape fantasies after being raped are form of catharsis, or they're simply capable of drawing a line between an unrealistic fantasy and their own experiences. It's how some veterans from wars can't stand action movies with guns in them because it triggers flashbacks, while others are perfectly fine with them. Responses to traumatic events are not universal, no matter what trauma we're talking about.
That said, I too would love to see more games where an F protagonist gathers a male harem in some capacity or another... (my tastes are extremely all over the place, heh) but sadly, that sort of thing is extremely rare. There may be games/VNs with that sort of theme in them among otome games... but those are a group of games that tend to not sell that well, and thus are unlikely to end up translated, much less end up here on F95. It's a thing that does show up in certain anime/manga if you look far enough... but those don't have hentai in them.
