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And the best illustration of this is this very game. I don't like BDSM and normally would nt have touched this game because of the tags. But as I said before I tried the game despite some of the tags and was incredibly (pleasantly) surprised.This is a question I've grappled with both as someone who doesn't self-insert into visual novels and as a developer of one.
I find the ways some people limit themselves based off an imprecise list of tags sans context instead of engaging with a work on its own merit peculiar, but I do understand that to most people, adult visual novels are simply a commodity. With how over-saturated the market is, readers can afford to be choosy. Personally, I think that's kinda a boring way to engage with fiction. Stories are the best tool there is to wrestle with ideas and experience uncomfortable things safely. Plus, I like the thrill of finding something new that I didn't expect I'd like.
...but at the end of the day, this is porn and not art. There isn't anything wrong with being choosy and it's understandable to want to avoid things that repulse or trigger you when what you're simply looking for is escapism.
I know that I will miss out on some content by virtue of not choosing all the scenes. And I am perfectly fine with that so long as the more extreme scenes are optional / based on previous choices.