Over at the Aussie site GamePlayer.com, writer Stuart Clarke asks whether game makers have a mortal fear of sex — specifically, sex depicted in their products.

Killing, blood, gore, criminal and antisocial behavior in games? No problem. Psychoses, neuroses inflicting main characters? Absolutely. But add some horizontal tummy-bumping of a kind innocuous enough to appear on daytime television, Clarke observes, and sparks fly everywhere but onscreen. Talk of censorship surfaces, too.

Read Clarke’s essay, then tell Game Guy what you think. Does sex have a place in video games?