If you were to remove all the romances/scenes from the game very little about these characters would change.
This actually makes the point for me. Once you remove the sex and romance nothing actually changes. The relationships beyond getting a sex scene do nothing to drive any meaningful plot lives. ALL of the plotlines could be achieved without any need for romance or sexual content so this makes it gratuitous at BEST and sex hype for prepubescent teens at worst.
Let me illustrate it this way. What is the difference between a sexualized/objectified character, and a sex-positive character?
The answer is agency.
Is the sex on their terms? Are they an active participant? Do they make choices? Are their wants and needs, considered important? Or are they a prize/reward to be won? Are their bodies used primarily for audience titillation, with little regard for the person?
A character who engages with sex because they want to is sex-positive. A character who has sex because the writer wants to have sex with them, or wants the players to be jerking off to them, or because some other character wants to have sex with them, is a sexual object.
If the origin characters, narratively, function fine without any romance or sex. And if their romances do not take away from that. Then these characters are not objectified, no matter how horny they may be.
Last edited by Dwapking; 25/11/2311:52 PM. Reason: grammar
