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SPOILER INFO
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Some Skyrim mods create what's called custom followers . A custom follower is an NPC who can be found in one or another location and will agree to accompany you on your adventures, fight by your side and obey your orders. If you have necessary mods installed, you can also have sex with your custom follower just like you can with a vanilla follower.
By and large, custom followers are a very good thing because they add variety to the game.
However, there is one category of custom follower mods that is, to put it mildly, controversial.
One popular website that hosts Skyrim mods (and I'm not talking about LoversLab) has several mods that create female custom followers who, judging by the screenshots provided by their authors, have not yet reached sexual maturity. I'm not talking about above or under 18, I'm talking about girls clearly below the age of consent. Yet, on those screenshots those little girls are wearing revealing attires that are far from age-appropriate.
I haven't tested any of those mods and I'm not going to, so I wouldn't know if any of those preteen followers can be stripped naked and/or fucked. But that's not really the point. The point is that a dress that would be attractive when worn by a woman looks very disturbing when worn by a child.
I know better than express my opinion on that website whose moderators are, as I remember someone wrote somewhere, "notoriously trigger-happy and unforgiving", but as you can see for yourself, there are quite a few users who have drawn attention to the paedophile nature of those mods. Most incredulously, they've all been banned, apparently without prior warning or anything, and the moderators are openly admitting that the user so-and-so was banned for the reason none other than having accused that particular mod author of paedophilia.
It can't fail to surprise. I mean, in every other forum I've ever seen it's the paedophiles who get banned.
Now, I am no fantasy police. All I want to say with this article is this:
If some people want to create and publish paedophile mods, and if some other people want to download them, and if a website owner agrees to provide them with a platform for doing that, then it's none of my business.
However, I am baffled to see moderators ban forum users for merely pointing out the obvious fact that it's paedophile to dress a visibly preteen girl up as a slut.
And when that very same website takes a rather prudish stance against some other sensitive sexual topics, it's, IMHO, the height of hypocrisy.
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