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Mollie Taylor

The Sims' biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that's more than some of Steam's top games: 'It doesn't make sense to me'

The Sims 4.

Despite its tame rating, sex has always wormed its way into The Sims series—I fear it's a canon event to Google "how to make Sims naked" as a teenager. But it arguably didn't blow up into more mainstream simming until Turbodriver's WhickedWhims came along in 2016, offering a package of nudity, animated sex, birth control, menstrual cycles, and even STIs where that stuff had traditionally been scattered across various corners of the internet.

It's one of those mods that, despite its steamy themes, has become widely accepted among the community in the way that, for a while, your mum reading Fifty Shades of Grey in a café was all cool and dandy. Even though we all knew what those books were about.

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