When players modded the censors covering characters up in The Sims 4, they found that sims were pretty much Barbies underneath the clothes. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before someone took matters into their own hands and changed that. Warning: This post has NSFW content.
Hardcore Sims players may know about the wide variety of nudity mods that have popped up since the “no mosaic” mod — but in case you’re not caught up, there are now mods that let your sims have penises, vaginas, areolas, and even pubic hair. The latter one, in conjunction with body hair, is important — sims still look a bit doll-like when it’s just genitalia without hair, though obviously that type of bodyscape might be someone’s particular preference.
In any case, you can view many of these mods here, in case you wanted to download them.
What’s curious to me about these mods is that they reflect some of the userbase’s desire to eroticise the game beyond what the developers include. The Sims isn’t sexy enough! Woohooing feels so conservative. I mean, it’s not even called sex, even though we all know that’s what it is. Beyond that, there’s something particularly fascinating about how the modders choose to depict genitals and breasts.
Sims modders, on this website at least, seem to have a preference for smaller, perfectly circular areolas, if not ones that almost blend in with the breast:
Attempts to make more ‘distinct’ ones look like this:
This last one is a modder’s attempt to make a ‘bigger’ areola — but, it’s still kind of on the small side. There are of course larger and darker areolas, but they seem to be rare:
The sim above is also one that exhibits a ‘darker’ vagina according to the modder, for the recrd.
To what degree do these mods reflect a modder’s personal preference? To what degree do they reflect societal expectations of what a perfect breast should look like, or standard conventions of beauty? It’s worth noting that some of these areolas are modelled after actual people, like models. It’s also worth noting that some mods only change the sims’s upper or lower body — meaning some people selectively care about more realistic sim bodies. Having a realistic butt may not be as important as having realistic breasts to some people, it seems!
Obviously, these types of musings aren’t limited to breasts. I had the same sort of questions running through my head while looking at the penis models that some modders have come up with, like this one:
But penis mods like these ones seem rarer than ones for breasts or vaginas, for whatever reason. Still, I can’t help but wonder: Why do they look like this specifically? Is it preference? Beauty standards? Neither? Is it bad that my reaction was ‘why are these so small?’ (Yes, probably. I’m just being honest with my initial reaction, and if nothing else, it would be cool if there was a wider variety of dicks for people to download). Nevermind the size, though. The dicks look weird because they’re so flat, right? Vaginas have the same problem, too.
I have seen some more variety floating around, like here, but some of those mods can only be downloaded if you drop some money. So if you want a wider range of breasts, areolas, or pubic hair, you’re going to have to pay a premium for it — or make it yourself, I guess.
Will simmers one day have a wider variety of genitals and breasts to choose from, without having to spend a cent? My gut says yes, but it’s still interesting to see what the community has come up with thus far. There are bigger picture questions here, too. For example: what are the differences between nudity mods here, and ones in Skyrim? Do they serve the same purpose? Which are more detailed? It’s all fascinating to think about.
Now that modders are making bodies more realistic, it’s probably just a matter of time before modders start making mods that allow sims to have all sorts of different types of sex, as older Sims mods did. We’ll keep you updated on that, too.
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20 responses to “The Sims 4’s Nudity Mods Have Gotten Really Detailed (NSFW)”
That guy seems to be circumsized too. wonderif that was a conscious decision.
Probably just what the creator is used to, given that circumcision is still very widespread in the US (where the creator is statistically likely to be from).
That is a very reasonable conclusion.
Cut it out.
unless, its the opposite.
him yearning to be a beanie rather then a hoodie.
OR
the circumcised penis is just what has been branded into his subconsciously from repressed memories stemming from child hood abuse or trauma.
Well if that isn’t the saddest thing.
At least they tried?
Why is it the saddest thing? Personally I find the saddest thing to be that the Sims is even censored? I have a 10 year old son who plays part 3 regularly, I put on the nudity mod because he used to giggle at the censored patch over everyone, thinking it was ‘dirty’. I made them all naked, he plays it now and doesn’t think a thing of them being naked. I explained ‘breasts are for reproduction and feeding babies’ and ‘penises and vaginas are used for making babies’. He gets it.
Of course, you know, he can always go play a COD game where he can kill wildly, or even Fallout NV which he loves, where bodies explode everywhere. But there’s no boobs right?
What’s the saddest thing, and this is fact, is our stigma over seeing breasts, penises and vaginas but we’re ok with seeing death and destruction.
Where are our priorities with standards here?
This.
Watching US tv you you see things like butt crack and “the finger” being censored, but violence is a ok. What the hell is the point in censoring those things?! How is either harmful to anyone?
Some parts of the world, seemingly progressive and advanced cultures, have such an incredibly skewed concept of what constitutes an actual social issue.
Example:
The Walking Dead: You can see heads sliced in half, jaws ripped off, eyes gouged out, intestines pulled from bodies. You can see bodies burning eating other bodies. You can see eviscerations, you can see guts rubbed over other people to disguise them from walkers. You can see heads lopped off. You can see all that and more!
But damn, you cannot hear ONE F word on AMC. Nor can you show a nipple. Granted Cable channels implement their own censorship in America but it’s still messed up.
Luckily the comics the series is based on do not have that issue. http://25.media.tumblr.com/ae6763cccb0bd27357794738829e2508/tumblr_mwqh6cus6t1qjhqbxo1_500.png
Edit: Found a better example http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo-9WkPIQAAgIuE.jpg
Comment awaiting moderation? What did I do this time?
Sometimes, edit your comment, just take out one letter and re-add it or something and it gets around it.
Nope….. They fixed that bug 🙂
it’s the dick, yo. you can get away with merely texturing the ol’ vagerydoo (normal mapping would help) but when it comes to the ol’ bellend, that shit hangs. it protrudes. it’s out there.
this penis here though, it’s flat and high. it don’t look right! and now that you’ve made me look at it again it sort of looks like a tattoo. it doesn’t stand out particularly well.
thus I did declare, the saddest thing. that particular penis job.
if you want dicks in your sims, that shit needs to be modeled.
(I ain’t no prude who thinks it’s sad that people are out there trying to make sims sexed up. when it comes to sex I try damn hard not to judge what people like)
lmao Rust seems to do that pretty well. Though someone did laughing comment one night on chat in Rust ‘Why does my character never wake up with morning wood?’ lmao
Wow… those penises were a little high up there. And I’m pretty sure most guys don’t have box-gaps either, what with all that junk taking up the space.
They look like they are just a texture placed on, Since they would need to change the physical character models to make it more realistic, I am not sure how that would be possible, I am sure it would be more difficult than a texture change….
Yeah, just a simple physical addition to the model with an associated texture, assuming the engine allows it. I figure it wouldn’t be all that ha– difficult to do, maybe treat it like one of the game’s clothing options. Skyrim’s modders have been doing it for years now, although they’ve taken it to the HD extreme. The amount of detail they’ve out into making the respective genitals is somewhat… disturbing. 🙂
I wish my scrotum looked like it was airbrushed on. On second thoughts maybe I don’t.
Those appear to be just a texture on top of the model rather than a actual slong. So still a fair way off from actually seeing some penetration mod with Sims 4 🙂
You can mod sims 2 like this, pretty sure all of them are modable like this.
Also these just appear to be texture, I know for certain the sims 2 penis mod was actually a 3d modelled penis.
I hate to be negative, but it appears as though the writer of the article didn’t do too much searching for the males. There was the aforementioned “clothing” option for male genitals way back on September 17…
http://cmarnyc.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-sims-4-penis-mod.html?zx=a7fee22b6469aa0b
Much better than the “painted on” texture shown above.