Office Temptation

TW: mention of eating disorder

*Office Temptation* is a demo for the larger pornographic game *Lewd Mod*, where you "converse" with Maddy, a train-wreck of a coworker in your office. She is trying *really hard* to flirt with you, teasing you with snapshots and hinting at a sexy surprise at the end of the day. And she won't stop talking to you, whether you accept those advances or not (well, you can't *really* say no, it just translates as playing hard to get). The only big difference is whether you get the sexy surprise at the end or not (and *even then*, it's a tease).

This was... *weird*. There's no way around it but *weird*. I tried to play as the reticent co-worker first, that just wants to get through the day, see if Maddy would leave me alone (she doesn't, and the game kinda shoehorns you into giving in), and the one who's all into the whole thing. And both times, it left a bad taste in my mouth. Sure, it's porn. But gosh darn, I have standards!

First of all, you have doughnuts and you don't even make a porn joke with it? Stack em or lick em, there are so many ways of using the treat smartly and smutly. But no, Maddie just doesn't know how to eat them and ends up with jelly on her chest. Which.... *WHY?* Why the doughnut?? when you have the phallic *éclairs* right there, or the booby *religieuse* or *profiteroles* or *choux* right there! If the MC is not gendered, the *religieuse* work even better, in the game's context too (with the AC and Maddy)! Such missed opportunities.

Second of all, Maddy has a boyfriend. She's actively cheating on her boyfriend by essentially sexting you at work (and then at home if you took the right path). What's sexy about cheating? How are we supposed to be ok with being the affair partner? Why can't I call Maddy out on her actions??? As soon as she mentioned a boyfriend, I was out of it completely. I was ready to call HR and report her. Which you can't, because the game is hell bent on responding positively about Maddy's advances.

Most egregious of all, and that's not even touching the whole office affair, which its whole canworm, the way the game deals with Maddy's relationship with food is just... *questionable at best*. Maddy refers to herself as disgusting if she eats the doughnuts during the day, that she ate a whole box of cookies the day before and it made her feel bad, that her boyfriend essentially fatshames her when sending him sexy pics... and *she urges you to fatshame her so she won't eat the doughnuts she obviously want to eat*. In the year of our Lord 2025... why are we still doing this? This is not sexy to restrict someone to *not* eat something, especially you can pick the options of *calling her a GREEDY PIG*. Even as some sort of degradation/feeding fetish I don't buy it. It only reads as a woman who has some sort of eating disorder and not dealing with it (and *you can make it worse to get sexy pics* yay! /s).

Smut can be fun, smut can be flirty and cheeky, smut can titillate with neat graphics. This... was just uncomfortable throughout. I kept wishing for a *Report to HR* button so I could stop the game early. But, in retrospect, this would have been like monkey paw's request: instead of HR, I'd have *Horny Resources* on the line, and end up in a whole new layer of corporate hell.