And it’s curious to see how that has changed with the times. In the 1990s the game and its settings were sexist, racist and otherwise bigoted. These days, elves and orcs can make babies together (which used to be biologically impossible in old lore) and it’s entirely socially acceptable, even if the elf and orc are a same-sex couple.
In the process of getting rid of racial stereotypes and prejudices (or imaginary races, so who was offended in the first place if dwarves hated orcs?) they also got rid of unique racial cultures and societies, and turned everyone into humans with different physiological features.
Robert E. Howard’s works got away with a lot of stuff because he wrote the stuff he wrote in the 1930s, when our Western culture was still very different from what it is now. And no, I would not want to see those works censored or edited to become socially acceptable for the 2020s (even though Red Nails would probably have more overtly lesbian themes) because they represent the time and age when they were written.
But there’s no need to go to extreme lengths in derivative works. Just because we don’t see all of the brutalities in Conan Exiles doesn’t mean those don’t exist in the game world. You can freely imagine doing stuff with your entertainer thralls, without need to make it into a game feature. I remember with some fondness the “sex scenes” in Divinity: Original Sin 2, where the characters were just standing in their underwear facing each other, and a male narrator narrated the scene in a matter-of-fact tone. As a player, I knew what had happened between the two characters (in considerable detail) even though I didn’t see it happen. From a narrative perspective there was no need to animate the whole deal.
If you want to make an adult movie in Conan Exiles, I suggest you get creative with emotes. I mean, I did build a brothel in my Exiled Lands town a couple of years ago:
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