Originally Posted by Etruscan
I agree that it is totally a personal preference. I don’t agree that a fantasy video game adventure needs sex though. Can anyone seriously say for example that The Lord of the Rings is worse off for not having graphic sex in it?

Lord of the Rings doesn't have characters whose personality needs to be extended through sexual scenes. Because good characters are not commonly associated with sexuality, and more with dignity and romaticism. Evil character are commonly associated with desire, dependence and power when it comes to relationships, so a graphic sexual scene can convey all of those things properly. But in case of LoTR evil is presented more as an ambiguous entity rather than a well-defined person. Sauron is just a personification of evil and he doesn't need to have that kind of representation. I am talking about the original trilogy ofc, not the Rings of Power.