I think that lesbian adult games generally being less popular has a lot to do with that seemingly common fascination with the self-insertion thing, which seems to only occur with games, and not with porn, hentai, adult comics, etc., although in many cases these "games" are literally visual novels with just a few irrelevant choices, but this seems enough to already makes this self-insertion so "crucial".
And with most people around here being straight guys, then the "drama" starts with the usual complaints in the threads, etc. You can also often read around this forum some very weird ideas about lesbian sex, like "it's not real sex", so I understand that the percentage of people who might be interested in these games it's going to be smaller, because, you know, the game doesn't have "actual sex". Like WTF, but oh well.
I personally have no interest in self-insertion, if I like lesbian games it's simply because I'm a lesbian, because I like sexual content (in contrast to some people, who I guess aren't that rare in lesbian "circles", that, for various reasons, have a more negative general idea of this type of content), and I only care for the characters, story and art to be good.
But like I said, self-insertion seems to be a very influential phenomenon around adult games, and it's something I doubt will change.
In contrast, there are adult non-game products that are clearly quite successful, like the Sunstone comic, where the two protagonists are a lesbian couple, and which is an amazing comic, by the way. I guess self-insertion doesn't apply there, so there's no drama about it.
In any case, lesbian adult content has always been treated in a questionable way in almost any context. Porn websites tend to list as "lesbian" content videos of two girls doing something for 1 minute (or not even that) and then a guy having sex with them for 30 minutes. Or sometimes the opposite happens and the websites don't even allow content to be labeled as lesbian, even if it's possible with (male) gay content, so any actual lesbian content appears labeled as "straight", and if you want to look for it, you have to manually search among a lot of straight content. Is this related to some "weird" views on lesbian adult content or lesbian sex in general? Possibly.
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Regarding what is said about "LGBT content", as is being used on this thread as "political content"... how common are "political" adult games anyway? I'm asking seriously, because I honestly don't really know adult games like that, but it's not like I know that many adult games actually.
However, I obviously do know a lot of non-adult game content that looks like a political political pamphlet, of almost every tendency, yes, but I also believe there's people who confuse stories that focus on issues such as acceptance, or that have a certain artistic style, among other things, as "LGBT political content", even though it's not really political. For example, I would cite the modern She-Ra series. For me, it's a really great show, but of course it's a show that's typically associated with being "very woke" because of its art style and because it has a lot of queer characters... but if you look at it, the show isn't trying to be a political fling, it's just a story with queer and non-queer characters, doing different things in their world, that's it. I certainly wouldn't consider it "LGBT political content", however it's not rare to read on the internet people who talk like this series is "so woke" and "has an agenda".
