I wonder who these hardcore RPG gamers are, if they find the small amount of sex in this game disturbing. (Sex which you can entirely ignore if you want to) I don't think they care much for the heroic fantasy genre on which their games are based.
Let's have a look at Conan the Barbarian, which was orignally a series of 5 short stories written by Robert E. Howard. Below are the covers of the magazines where they were published. Sex and Heroic Fantasy/Sword and sorcery has always gone together. Even in the old myths on which the fantasy genre is based is it omnipresentr.