BREAKING: Anti-Porn Crusaders Take Credit for Steam’s Steamy Game Crackdown

(Los Angeles July 20, 2025) The world’s biggest PC gaming platform just got a whole lot less… stimulating. Steam has purged dozens of erotic and sexually explicit games from its marketplace, and an Australian anti-porn group is proudly claiming they’re the reason your kinkiest digital fantasies have vanished.

Multiple outlets confirm that Collective Shout Australia’s answer to the U.S.’s ultra-conservative National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has taken a victory lap after what it calls a “grassroots campaign” to strong-arm payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal into forcing Steam’s parent company, Valve, to tighten the noose on adult content.

The result? A sweeping ban on what Steam now calls “certain kinds of adult-only content,” spelled out in its Steamworks developer guidelines. That means if your favorite game involved taboo roleplay, boundary-pushing storylines, or pixelated debauchery, it might be gone not because players objected, but because financial institutions did.

Melinda Tankard Reist, Collective Shout’s co-founder and self-described “pro-life feminist,” wasted no time boasting on social media:

“Hundreds of sexually violent online games that let players role-play rape, incest and the torture of women and children have been suddenly removed,” she declared, framing the purge as a moral victory.

The move follows a long tradition of anti-porn organizations targeting payment processing choke points to impose their version of morality on global platforms. Critics argue that what’s really at stake is artistic freedom, sexual expression, and the right for consenting adults to explore fantasy even if those fantasies make conservative crusaders clutch their pearls.

Adding more spice to the drama, Vice News initially published freelance journalist Ana Valens’ exposé linking Collective Shout’s campaign to Steam’s crackdown. But the stories were later scrubbed at the request of Vice’s parent company, Savage Ventures, allegedly due to “controversial subject matter.” Valens resigned in protest, and at least one colleague followed suit.

Reist’s response to critics was anything but demure, firing off an insult-laden broadside: anyone opposing the purge, she said, were nothing more than “porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists.”

For adult game developers, the message is clear the attack isn’t just on a handful of niche titles. It’s on the entire space where sexual creativity meets interactive entertainment. And with payment processors playing morality police, this fight is far from over.