Riposte
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The point is that games so badly want to, well, indulge in sexual content, but don't want to be seen as "pornographic" with the ratings and perception that entails, so you get these ridiculous half-way attempts that aren't "really porn" because there's not enough skin showing. And I do think you can leverage the exact same criticism at how Mass Effect handles things, its just not as baked into the moment to moment experience as much as some of these.
It is a bit of an asinine point to make, because it's a grave people like Parish would love to dig for these games. The idea that he genuinely finds cheesecake-heavy games "sleazier" than the eroge games (which are only allowed to exist outside consoles/portables) is hard to believe. So it's really a matter of being frustrated they don't jump into the grave.
That's putting aside the point that these developers may find a specific appeal to being risque, but not explicit. Comedy, for example, is rarely sexually explicit even when very sexually charged.