whats the appeal of corruption games?

[endless1m]

in the beginning I thought I was into them, because I thought its about power. but it seems its usually more about making a girl slutty and raising her libido. so if she now just always wants the D, possibly even any D, and for her its now more about having sexual pleasure than anything else - I feel this has little to do with power or control. she just wants sex now. maybe not even with you/MC.

having a girl do what you want even though she actually doesnt want to - this I would say is about power and control. either she does it because she loves and needs you that much, or because you coerce or blackmail her, or because you just threaten or rape her. but this is rarely the case in corruption games (at least not in those I played).

was I mistaken about corruption being about power and control? and if so, whats it really about?

 

[Meaning Less]

Yes you were mistaken. Power and control is the description of maledom/femdom which are more specifically about power dynamics.

Here is the tag definition:

• Corruption [Corrupting someone's mind robbing them of their purity/innocence.]

With this you can see that corruption is simply the act of something pure turning into something unpure, seeing how the story unfolds as they turn hostages to their deepest and most lustful desires, that's the whole appeal of it.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

For games where you play as the corruptor, it's about the power-trip of altering someone's personality to fit your desires (even though the MC may just be a horndog who wants to gaslight someone into sex). Threats and rape are about controlling the victim's actions and autonomy, but usually long-term personality changes are not the goal. In the short term, if he/she doesn't want to do it, but is forced into it, that's rape rather than corruption. Though if it comes with gradual submission and even pleasure, rape and blackmail can be part of a corruption arc.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

yeah, I also always had the impression that its about power as well. making a girl the specific sex slave you would like. but if she is corrupted now there is no power anymore, is there? she might just go off with her new corrupted mind and go through 1000 dicks to find the magic one

It's usually not about exclusivity. Most trainer games have the corruptee liberally shared with other characters and random NPCs. Promiscuity is actually part of the corruption. I guess once that ideal bimbo/turbo-slut state has been reached, playtime is over, it has run its course.

 

[Sphere42]

Not into corruption myself, neither the loss of "purity" (such a bullshit loaded term for "ignorance" or "prudishness"...) nor the "power and control" aspect. However I do often end up playing corruption games regardless, and the shoddier they are made the better for me. The reason for this is simple: lack of alternatives. There aren't that many games which feature more extreme/non-standard sex acts without some corruption spin on them, and fewer still where the female participants actually consent to them. But in a poorly made "corruption" game, especially one with a female protagonist and/or major sandbox elements, you can just dip out rush high "corruption" with some kind of grind loop then pretend that never happened and play the rest of a game with a woman who actually enjoys sex.

 

[Meaning Less]

and in what way do people enjoy something like that?

like what feelings does this produce in them? or what thought is arousing in that?

just that someone is now impure seems not very beneficial in itself...

but i remember hearing from japanese men that many like the idea of making something very beautiful (innocent girl) ugly, by cumming on their face or something. probably connected.

I mean corruption is what leads into more and more sexual content for characters that otherwise wouldn't have it...

Think of a pure and impervious virgin nun that is prude about any and all sexual acts, there would be no sex scenes with this character.

But now slowly make this character question their previous values, like an evil spirit whispering in their ears. Suddenly their previous prudeness starts being dilluted until they start making lustful choices.

The pleasure comes simply from this contrast that takes place, the more pure someone is the more pleasure you can extract from seeing them turning into a lust-ridden animal.

If you started the game with someone that was already lustful then there would be no corruption because there is nothing left to corrupt.

 

[Deleted member 5410619]

The more innocent something is.
The sweeter it is to corrupt.

I cannot tell why others like it but for me it is the feeling of power and control.
To know i was the reason a sweet girl who could have been a great wife to some good men was turned into a whore.
To see a mother turn against her daughter because her need for your dick is greater then the love for her family.

Corruption is all about that feeling of power.
Of shaping someone into something more to my liking.
To what i want it to be.

Like an artist creating a statue or a painter create's his master piece.
A corrupter takes pride and joy in the act of corrupting.
Of changing someone personality.

Technicly speaking the only difference between redemption and corruption is if you consider the change good or evil.
Both are the exact same in how they work.
You change a person to be more agreeable with you.

For a corrupter like myself.
My joy comes from knowing i turned this girl who wanted to be a doctor and help people into a willing exploiter of her fellow woman and help me "liberate(see: turn into sex slaves)" them like i did her.

Corruption is about taking something and making it something else.
In terms of porn games.
It is about taking the prude, the good girl, the loyal and turning it into sluts, bad girls and the traitors.

All things in life are about sex.
Execpt for sex.
Sex is about power.

So technicly all life is about power.
And nothing pleases me more then control over others.

 

[JustXThings]

I mean corruption is what leads into more and more sexual content for characters that otherwise wouldn't have it...

Think of a pure and impervious virgin nun that is prude about any and all sexual acts, there would be no sex scenes with this character.

But now slowly make this character question their previous values, like an evil spirit whispering in their ears. Suddenly their previous prudeness starts being dilluted until they start making lustful choices.

The pleasure comes simply from this contrast that takes place, the more pure someone is the more pleasure you can extract from seeing them turning into a lust-ridden animal.

If you started the game with someone that was already lustful then there would be no corruption because there is nothing left to corrupt.

That is a pretty good take from the corrupter point of view. I actually like the internal struggle of the corrupted and the small but noticeable changes in personality, more than the appeal of corrupting itself. Like seeing all those characters, men and women alike, taking a step towards immorality. Knowing what they are doing is wrong, but still doing it. Struggling because of it, but doing it again... like a drug addiction. Slowly changing its morals each step towards corruption is made. I like it more when the corrupter is actually "believable". I dislike rape, mind control or clumsy blackmail, I find it boring. I love if the corrupter takes advantage of the insecurities of his/her victims. Making them actually do the decisions themselves, rather than forcing them to.

An amazing example of this is "Witch Trainer". Implanting the seed of corruption is as simple as making her show her tongue for "points" (prostitution), and it only gets better and better listening to her.

 

[Meaning Less]

Knowing what they are doing is wrong, but still doing it. Struggling because of it, but doing it again... like a drug addiction.

Exactly, that's why I tried to emphasize that power/control is irrelevant in general.

To me it is exactly the lack of control being depicted from the one being corrupted that makes it appealing.

That's why it works even when the protagonist is the one being corrupted through different scenarios instead of being overpowered/controlled by someone specific.

 

[Geigi]

It's a kink? You can find it in women's fanfiction too, epecially bad boy-good girl type, controlling ceo-hot headed secretary or fuckboy-virgin girl.

 

[whizwart]

I think theres a rainbow of flavor within this Genre.I like corruption games where the corruption is on the light side. Shy virgin church girl to having a MFF threeway with anal, heck yeah. Church girl to brainless toy with size I tits and a closet sized room to live in, not so much. I guess maybe you could say more an Awaken the Dirtiness type corruption.

 

[morphnet]

Exactly, that's why I tried to emphasize that power/control is irrelevant in general.

To me it is exactly the lack of control being depicted from the one being corrupted that makes it appealing.

That's why it works even when the protagonist is the one being corrupted through different scenarios instead of being overpowered/controlled by someone specific.

I disagree here, if the MC is the corruptor then it is usually about power, unless it's a kinetic novel where the writer has a certain story to tell and even then most are about power.

You choose when you start the corruption, you choose when to take the corruption to the next level and when picking events in game, you choose how the corruption will affect those around the one or many being corrupted.

Gaining complete control over another persons actions and thoughts, mostly against their will is a form of power. You tell them what to do, how to do it, when to do it and where to do it. You can't do that without power over the person/persons.

None of the corruption games I have played ended with the MC freeing all those they corrupted and going home to live alone. They end with the MC in control over all those he corrupted and having reached the ultimate goal, what ever the story said the MC was working towards, revenge, harem, ruler of a kingdom, defeat of the demon lord etc.

 

[Meaning Less]

Gaining complete control over another persons actions and thoughts, mostly against their will is a form of power. You tell them what to do, how to do it, when to do it and where to do it. You can't do that without power over the person/persons.

If they are doing these things exclusively because someone tells them to do it then you are talking about other tags, maledom/femdom, training, blackmail, mind control, slave or similar.

I never said corruption can't be paired with other kinks, some games do pair corruption with kinks like the ones you are describing that are about control.

But by itself corruption has nothing to do with control, which is what op noticed when playing many corruption games that are not so limited.

 

[tanstaafl]

in the beginning I thought I was into them, because I thought its about power. but it seems its usually more about making a girl slutty and raising her libido. so if she now just always wants the D, possibly even any D, and for her its now more about having sexual pleasure than anything else - I feel this has little to do with power or control. she just wants sex now. maybe not even with you/MC.

having a girl do what you want even though she actually doesnt want to - this I would say is about power and control. either she does it because she loves and needs you that much, or because you coerce or blackmail her, or because you just threaten or rape her. but this is rarely the case in corruption games (at least not in those I played).

was I mistaken about corruption being about power and control? and if so, whats it really about?

I'll answer this as it was asked, meaning; Why do I like corruption AND male dom?

Simple answer: Sometimes that turns me on. The idea of having free, repercussion free, control over a previously innocent girl that I've corrupted into a sex freak is a turn on in a forbidden kind of way.

Complex answer: Sometimes that turns me on, sometimes it doesn't. It really depends on mood and many other factors. I, like others I assume, have a rotating list of "currently enjoyed" fetishes. Sometimes I like NTR, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I like corruption, sometimes I don't. I could go on with other tags, but you get my point. People have moods, they have preferences that are in flux. I've only met a few people in my life that have liked the same things without change for their whole lives.

I mean sure, most people have a few things that are set in stone. For instance, I will never enjoy rape in a game (either direction). But even that varies in emphasis with time and mood. There are some games that ride that line in a way that it's sexy. (Blackmail, coersion, etc.) But use force is always a no go for me.

Basically, I'm saying everyone is different from everyone else, and every person is different from themselves from day to day or month to month.

 

[endless1m]

I'll answer this as it was asked, meaning; Why do I like corruption AND male dom?

Simple answer: Sometimes that turns me on. The idea of having free, repercussion free, control over a previously innocent girl that I've corrupted into a sex freak is a turn on in a forbidden kind of way.

that I understood. I didn't understand why the additional corruption was a turn on for some. but if you dont like rape etc. that makes sense. the rest others explained quite well
thx

 

[Deleted member 5410619]

But by itself corruption has nothing to do with control, which is what op noticed when playing many corruption games that are not so limited.

Indeed.
At its core corruption is the act of changing someone.
Doesnt matter if it is victem point of view or corrupter point of view the goal is to take someone and twist it into something else.
Which is why i think compairing it to a statue is very accurate.
You take a big rock and turn it into art.

 

[morphnet]

If they are doing these things exclusively because someone tells them to do it then you are talking about other tags, maledom/femdom, training, blackmail, mind control, slave or similar.

I never said corruption can't be paired with other kinks, some games do pair corruption with kinks like the ones you are describing that are about control.

But by itself corruption has nothing to do with control, which is what op noticed when playing many corruption games that are not so limited.

I see what you are saying, I think there might be a misunderstanding here somewhere? Just to make sure we are on the same page, if there is a game with only the corruption tag and nothing else, how would that process take place and be shown to the player?

 

[haksaw]

Just don't play "corruption" tag games with female protag. 99% of them are trash. Willingly becoming a slut is not corruption.

 

[Deleted member 5410619]

I see what you are saying, I think there might be a misunderstanding here somewhere? Just to make sure we are on the same page, if there is a game with only the corruption tag and nothing else, how would that process take place and be shown to the player?

Change in behavior caused by outside factors.
Usually from prude to slut.

 

[Duke Greene]

Change in behavior caused by outside factors.
Usually from prude to slut.

This, and more specifically: someone with strong moral values gradually discards them and becomes a slave to her base instincts.

It's a kind of schadenfreude.