From escapistmagazine.com:

From Hot Coffee to Mass Effect, the mainstream media has a tendency to demonize sex in games – But amidst the hubbub over male full frontal nudity in GTA IV’s DLC, MSNBC’s Winda Benedetti says Nay! Bring on the Sex! Bring on the Penises!

Boobs sell games. As much as we might want to cross our arms and ‘harrumph’ at how childish the idea is, there are fewer guaranteed ways to get hormone-fueled teenagers (and hormone-fueled adults) to look at a game than putting a buxom, barely-clothed babe on the cover. From Tomb Raider and Dead or Alive to Fear Effect and yes, Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, it’s simply a fact of the industry.

So why, Benedetti wonders, are people flipping their lids over GTA4’s dingle-dangle? Why were people freaking out over a sliver of sideboob as two adults had consensual relations in Mass Effect?

My question then is this: Video games have been around for decades now. Decades. So when are they – and when are we – going to finally grow up?

From gamepolitics.com:

"So you handled all the killing and thuggery in GTA San Andreas but found yourself traumatized by the hidden, pixelated sex?

Don’t spend your Hot Coffee lawsuit settlement money just yet.

The New York Times reports that the Hot Coffee class-action lawsuit, which was nearing settlement, has been tossed by a federal judge."

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