No actually it doesn't really. The reason the porn section was separated was because said video often contained explicit images on the cover, the horror movies were also usually separated in their own section for exactly the same reason.

But it's not the case on Gog no matter which "adult" game you select you will never see anything explicit be it on the main image or on any of the screenshots, not even a single nipple, nothing explicit either in the description, at worse you will see some bikini and underwear but nothing more explicit than what you can see in a basic advertisement. (If anything the only game where you can actually see a nipple is Succubus and it's not even a porn game)

Also what you mention about stores was not even always true, at least not in Europe, I remember at the beginning of the CD-ROM era, porn movies on CD-ROM were actually in the PC video game section and just had a "16+ only" sticker on them, and I am not talking about some random underground video store but mainstream family-friendly general stores (e.g. Manor). Not to mention that, in both France and Switzerland at least, porn magazine were usually always in the same section than video games ones, with video games on the bottom shelves and adult ones on the top ones.

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Also most adult movies are not hidden away in the back room. Sure, most stores have categorized sections, but as long something gets a rating, it can be displayed openly.
These back rooms mostly were for people who didn't want to be seen when browsing stuff.

Usually, 'magazines for men' are put on higher shelves, so the kids can't reach them, but they are not hidden. And often they don't even do that for the standard stuff (Playboy&Co). These magazines are there in plain sight
The world does not come to an end because of a nipple.

Well, that leaves the interesting question, how they ended in your library in the first place, no?

;)

Ideally I'd like the option to hide games by tag and to create your own private tags. That way people who don't want to see porn can hide it, people who think violence is immoral can hide those games, people could add tags like "boring" or "owned" and just hide the specific games they use those tags on. For me, first-person shooters would be the first to go.

Well spotted :D

I can't speak for Italy, but here in Germany, you'll need to go to "special interest" shops, if you want to buy outright pornographic material (movies, books, magazines, etc).

Harmless nude stuff like Playboy and Penthouse are usually available in regular shops. However, if the cashier is taking their job serious, they will keep kids away from these magazines.

Other (not yet pornographic in the legal sense, but definitely more explicit) stuff may also be available in regular shops, though in these cases it can be that the magazines are (openly visible) in the shelf behind the counter, and you'll have to ask for them (again: can be - doesn't necessarily need to be).

Of course the same as with Playboy and Penthouse applies:
any cashier worth their money will keep kids away from those magazines.

I was 14 when I bought my first Penthouse (in our local station kiosk).
I remember it like it was yesterday: anxiously waiting for all other customers besides me to leave the shop (didn't want to be more embarrased than necessary, if my plan failed), then I boldly put the magazine on the counter, my head probably red as a tomato, expecting to be called out by the cashier (a lady, probably in her fourties) for being too young for this kind of stuff.
And then...she simply asked for the money, and if I wanted a bag (I didn't need one, I just put it in my school bag).
My friends, who had cowardly waited outside, couldn't belive that I pulled off that stunt.
Oh boy...those were the days... XD

I have no problem with porn games being here - in fact I support it, as I'm opposed to censorship - but I agree that there should be an option to hide them. However, I also think it should be possible to automatically hide any other type of game by tag and/or genre (e.g. 'sports' or 'anime graphics' or 'survival horror'). There are many types of game that will never interest me, and I'd rather not have those recommendations cluttering up my storefront. Something like Steam's 'exclude tags' feature, only with an unlimited number of tags, would be ideal.

I too am talking about Germany, I lived there for six years and still visit regulary. Since I am not Italian (I am a member of the Austrian/German minority in northern Italy) I don't spend any time in italian shops, don't have any idea how these are organized. Our local shops don't have much to chose from anyway.

Of course 'special interest' shops exists, but I'm talking mostly about what you can buy in the area around Munich central station.

I spent time in the backrooms as well back in the days. Oh the thrill XD

But these days movie shops that have separated sections just don't exist anymore and the other ones (Müller, Saturn, Mediamarkt) have - a little aside, but not hidden - also stuff for adults, even if not much. But it's there.

but well, back to the topic: GOG doesn't show anything explicit on the main page or the search function, so there is no need to hide anything. When you click a game you get a warning, that is enough.

But if we can configure filters of what we want to see by default and what not, I certainly won't mind.

I'd rather an option to hide a specific game ... like an X at the top right corner of the game image. Click that, and you never see that game again, no matter what genre it is.

Options in your profile to hide games with porn or that are erotic or have a certain level of violence etc, are problematic.

Someone at GOG would likely need to check fully to make a judgment of each and every game, and it's not like they have enough time now to do all that needs doing or should be done. And often the kind of judgment needed would be so subjective. Sure, some games are pretty obvious, but many wouldn't be. So not really fair to implement a filter or censorship that isn't done fairly, without bias, across the board.

I understand the desire to have something, but personally I just ignore, and hope GOG doesn't embrace too much of it.

Pretty amazing how people took "I'd like to have an option to hide certain types of games" as some sort of moral hypocrisy and wanting to just highlight ultra gore.

You guys astound me. It's like you feel having some sort of optional filter somehow censors you personally. Nobody gives a damn about the pixel boobies you like.

I'll take that as some of you folk astound me.

I see you have been a member here since 2008, and so I would have thought you knew how toxic it can get here even at the best of times, and really going by other similar topics I have seen here, this one isn't as bad ... so far.

Porn would have to be the biggest thing on the web, so odds are you will find many against your suggestion, many who like to play the role of Thought Police.

Your request is fine, and wouldn't have any impact on those who don't want such a thing. If such an option existed you could set it for yourself without any impact on anyone else.

All that said, I did try to point out in my earlier post here, that to do what you want would be quite problematic, and not as easy as you and some others seem to think it would be ... if just for the time and effort required for GOG to do it.

Anyway, I haven't checked myself, but maybe you could start or link to an existing Community Wishlist, if there already is one, to request your Porn Filter option.

Just doing another one of these porn related threads, without a Community Wishlist to steer folk to, is not going to achieve anything other than a lot of negativity from certain quarters.

If such a wishlist got a significant number of voters, then GOG might do something.

There should be the option to avoid individual games so they won't appear anywhere except in news articles, and also exclude games with specific tags, e.g. sexual content. Even better, I would like a distinction between mainstream games that have sexual content (which should have their own tag) and outright smut, so I can find the... content I want more easily.

Using tags is a bad idea because the tags are often wrong.

The Holy Inquisition!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hGi6u46g8

The GOG library. Not my personal library. Hiding games from your personal collection is easy enough.

https://youtu.be/LnF1OtP2Svk?t=111