Dream Daddy shares elements with daddy erotica through the conventionally attractive fathers available to date however, the game’s role- play replaces boundary-pushing depictions of sex and power with the positivity, joy, and optimism of the suburban upper-middle class.
Queer folks have constructed an image of the erotic “daddy figure” whose excessive sexuality exposes masculinity and fatherhood as performative. Dream Daddy’s appeal, I argue, comes from the slippage of meaning between the words “daddy” and “father” in a specifically queer context. The PC game Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator garnered attention and a fan community for centering queer fathers in a romance game. Daddy’s Play: Subversion and Normativity in Dream Daddy’s Queer World by Braidon Schaufert Abstract
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