For me, Christmas and the holiday season is all about the two week break I get from college. I don’t really care about the tree, the shopping, the gifts, or other festivities with the family—well, maybe I do care about the gifts a little, but whatever, I digress. What I really care about and am truly grateful for is the two weeks I get of uninterrupted video gaming.

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Video Games can get a short stick sometimes. They’ve been blamed for pretty much every school shooting committed in the last ten years. Supposedly they lead to violence and rage. Supposedly they lead to social ineptness, isolation, and the breakdown of society. Books, on the other hand, which have inspired wars, fascism, and cult suicides, are seen as an educational and a highly worthy hobby. But I’m going off track a bit here. Games are violent. You cannot argue with this fact.

I have to admit here to being a bit of a pacifist. Given a choice between war or diplomacy, I pick diplomacy. That’s why, in Civilization 4, I keep winning by setting up the United Nations and voting for unilateral peace. Equally, if I’m given a choice between shooting someone or saving them, I’ll save them.

However violence is only one adult theme. Sex is the other, and sex is what I want to talk about. So far I’ve seen surprisingly little of it in mainstream games. Sure you have those Japanese hentai dating sims, but if you consider the array of top selling western games right now you won’t be finding anything more erotic than a fur bikini or a panty shot.

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