Actually, corruption doesn't happen to the unwilling, only rape. Good Girl Gone Bad is absolutely a corruption game, do you know what else? Ashley is a well rounded character with thoughts of her own and the ability to choose. If you want a rape game where you play as a protagonist who gets raped, fine, but lets stop hiding it behind stupidity and start actually writing a game where a woman is raped.
If you wanna see a girl get raped and it still is kind of a corruption game, try Claire's Quest. It has a dark tone to it, and it's not exactly a *good* game, but at least it doesn't shy away from brutal rape, while also letting the MC work as a prostitute (optionally for horses) on the side. At least the MC isn't retarded, just "unlucky" in a shitty world.
I consider GGGB to be a deconstruction of the "corruption" porn game genre. While "bad" Ashley gets most of the dickings so far, but she's also a drug addicted prostitute pushing drugs for a gang that dropped out of college, who will - make no mistake about it - end up dead in a ditch. Meanwhile, "Good" Ashley also gets laid, because it's not the normal virgin-whore dichotomy. Sex is a function of the body, and the Good/Bad routes are more about how Ashley uses Sex, than making sex out to be a corrupt thing in itself.
On a related note: it just turns me off when MC is groped and doesn't get it. Like Mother, Wife, Whatever, a grown up woman, she gets groped, she lets a boy "cuddle" her during cello lesson and she's thinking things like: It's for better understanding of music... I mean... Eh?
That's the "retard in lechertown" to a Tee. The retard is on the mental level of a very slow 10 year old and doesn't understand that other people - men in particular - have sexual interests.
being Zoe from Zoe's Temptations or Suzie from New Paths I'd be making making myself more free as to my choices, not corrupted.
Zoe's Temptation is an odd one. All the interactions with males are of the "Retard in Lechertown" variety, while all the interactions with girls are self-determined hippie love stuff. My suspicion was that it was written by a tumblr lesbian, but I couldn't be arsed to learn more about the author.
This is why I, personally, don't like the corruption stat. I know games can't be like real life. On the other hand I don't play games that are quick progression of next sex scenes and mostly forced. I believe myself rather liberal in my sexuality, but I don't find myself corrupted. And this freedom that I allow myself doesn't force me to do anything. t's more liberating yourself than breaking or wronging somehow.
I don't rant about the "corruption" stat in games, since I believe it to be a part of story making set of tools, like major tropes in literature, but honestly, it does set kind of expectations that I find myself disagreeing with.
What is corruption anyways?
Is it meant to codify a certain process of maturation young girls go through somewhere between the entering of puberty and college age, where they begin to have sex, learn to love it, learn how to get it, and how to get things in return for sex? A process of maturation, a coming of age story? When we look at corruption games that have male protagonists, the non-protagonist girls that get corrupted usually end up as cum-addicted, mindless cockslaves in the male protagonists harem, ready to beg for some nookie, as a transparent sexual power fantasy. Just play Akaburs stuff for examples of that. You can make the argument that this actually is indeed an example of maturation - complete submission to a lover. But if it turns a girl into a perfectly subservient harem member, what is corrupt about it?
In "retard in lechertown" games, it is typically a series of progressively more degrading sexual acts. First she gets forced by her boss into tolerating a groping, later is forced to blow him, and so forth until we're at the rock bottom stage of "raped by dogs and other beasts", but the character remains unchanged and clueless, with only the tolerance for degradation seemingly increased.
In non-linear open world games, (Girl Life, Chloe18, but also Claire's Quest) female protagonists tend to unlock more sexual activities, and these come closest to "Corruption as coming of age" - You need this many "slut points" to use the glory hole for things other than handjobs in Chloe18, and you need to have been deflowered to use the glory hole for anything other than blow jobs in Girl Life.
One of my favorite female protagonist is Sabia from Kingdom of Deception - After she is backstabbed by her family and raped and abducted by orcs in the opening sequence (that scene was since removed because of Patreon rules) she has no "honor" to lose and decides to recruit the orcs as her army to get her throne back, and in doing so, is willing to cajole, murder, and fuck every orc she comes across if it helps her achieve her goals. Is that corruption? You may call her a whore, as the first 'sex activity' you unlock is blowing Orcs for money, but there isn't really an element of *progressive* corruption to the character, just an escalation of completely optional debauchery.
So what is Corruption? Is it sexual experience? Is it sexual submission? Is it increasing the pain threshold for abuse a girl can take? Personally, I prefer GGGBs interpretation: A self-destructive downward spiral initiated by focusing on short term hedonistic pleasures. Becoming a "liberated" nymphomaniac or a skilled prostitute should be understood as a coming of age story. And "progressively lewd things happening to mentally deficient girls" is something else entirely.
As a tag, "Corruption" is useless.