I don't intend to be dismissive of this post, but I firmly disagree with its logic.
Baldur's Gate 3 is not the first successful game, or RPG even, to have sexual elements. Almost every BioWare game since Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age: Origins have had these elements. I'll be posting the Fox News moral outrage segment for ME1 at the end of this post. People talked about BioWare's romances for years, "simping" for characters like Liara, Miranda, Garrus, Morrigan, Solas, etc. Yet there are very few RPGs with similar "obsession" on romance and sex, with the notable exception of BG3 and a few others. Obsidian went out of its way many times in the last ten years to avoid doing romances at all. Other CRPGs do not have cinematics to portray these dynamics. Bethesda has the technology, but prefers to allude to the interaction. We're not in 2005; we've had almost twenty years of sexual content in video games by this point. There is very little in these romances, sexual interactions, and characters that we have not seen already in the last decade of video games. Hell, Saints Row IV parodied the whole romance and sex dynamic in games back in 2013.
Further, we have a ceiling on sexual content in the form of transitioning the game from a rated M to a rated AO. GTA: San Andreas went through the hot coffee controversy, clearly establishing a limit on sexual content in a game by an advisory board, regardless of the size of the company. That's why we have Reddit posts saying, "For how horny this game is, the sex scenes are remarkably tame." They have to be tame for financial reasons (and also, I imagine, creative reasons).
Developers are not brainless sheep. They make games for a living and play a variety of games. For their creative visions, they are not going to look at "OMG SEX!!11!1!" and take it one-for-one to whatever project they are working on. That's not how project development works, and it's not how a creative process works. Someone might come in and say there is utility in some sex appeal, but this will be contextualized in the nature of the project in question. If anything, games have become less sexual in the last 10 years, but are certainly more sexual than they were 20 years ago. Developers are people, not mere bodies in motion.
