
Namely, the mods are aimed at male-identifying folks who are seeking to objectify those who are female-identifying. They’re aimed towards a very particular audience with a very particular mindset. (Though you’ll notice the men’s clothing in the same mod is just fine.) And if you’re looking to download new clothing for your female character, it’s difficult to avoid clothing that isn’t (NSFW site) designed ridiculously. Many of the worst examples sneak into other mods, like this otherwise innocuous hair replacement mod that uses a model of a sexualized young girl.

I’d urge you to go look at some pictures of puppies to recover. If you went to even a few of those links, you have my apologies. Not to mention a mod that adds laughable “boob and butt physics”.

Just within the past year, these gems have been posted on the Nexus ( warning: all the following links are NSFW): a “buxom wench” with impossibly huge breasts, this follower made to look like a young sexualized girl, a group of followers labeled “Harem”, and a mod that changes every NPC in the game female (for clearly unsavory reasons). Somehow, it’s hard to image that developer Bethesda meant players to have these types of followers. They’re meant to be warriors that fight by your side and help save the world. “Followers” in Skyrim are, as the name suggests, characters that are willing to follow you around the world and assist you in battle. The problem here is that this content notably focuses on adult themes with a misogynistic lean–women followers with comically sized butts and breasts, followers that are either dressed in almost nothing or are nude, or … well, things like this, just for starters: It’s gotten to the point where high-quality mods are being pushed out of the spotlight in favor of this adult content.Īdult content is all well and good, and it has its place alongside all other content. Recently, however, the Nexus has been overrun with adult content, hiding in among the other material. Over the years, the Nexus has been generally good at filtering adult material out from the rest of the content, and urging people to post adult mods elsewhere. For mods that feature adult content, most know to head to the website known as (NSFW site) LoversLab.

It’s where every quality mod has been hosted since the game’s release. Nexus Mods, lovingly known as “the Nexus” by users, has been the center for Skyrim modding for some years now. The modding scene is getting frighteningly misogynistic, and it only takes a cursory glance at the Nexus to see it.

What you might not be expecting, however, is the troubled current state of modding culture. ( The Thomas the Tank Engine characters as a replacement for dragons is a classic.) Good-natured, mod-based hijinks are par for the course. We’re all used to seeing outlandish Skyrim mods. WARNING: Many of the links here are NSFW, due to an absurd amount of nudity.
