Nothing sixual, only flirtatious at best. I do remember in Morrowind a certain tavern where girls were dancing in their undies (the House of Earthly Delights, thank you MudCrabFever), but that's the most I've ever encountered in the TES games.

Eh, I didn't even see it as sixually themed (more like pathological ), I rather felt with the guy. Until I discovered he was a major jerk. Then I laughed in his face, hard.

while the kids are shouting "Ehh you're naked!" at you. Oh yeah, so naughty!

It's the kinda the same for female pc's.
And albeit very very between the lines with a lot of imagination: After defeating a dragon and running around with my weapons still drawn, I've had a guard randomly remark to me: "A guard could get nervous, a woman like you approaching with her weapons drawn".

I wish the ratings included sixual content than themes. ESRB aside, I still don't see on how or why the home of the red-blooded, rugged, doomed-to-die Nords is so tame. I was expecting something simliar to the Witcher, except not as blatant and more mature in tone. It may just be me, but I don't see whats so wrong in depicting six in a natural and wholesome manner.

I mean Skyrim has a temple to Dibella devoted to teaching the arts of the bed-chamber, marriage and love stories, some raunchy jokes, revealing outfits for barmaids (though don't know if that applied to men), some flirting, and sadly the more perverse versions of six like backstories that include forced six and nonconsensual prostitution. This all just doesn't click in my head.

There's always The Lusty Argonian Maid books. Plus a note in the Ragged Flagon. Hmm...can't find the actual note, but the wiki says "The note says that if Delvin tries to sneak a peek at her while she is bathing in the lake that she will cut off his "most valuable asset"." From Vex to Delvin Mallory. I laughed a lot when I read that. There's plenty of little things like that in this game, and no, I don't mean little like Delvin's "most valuable asset".

This is the closest thing I've found to being sixual content (and it really was - I was like "OMG he DIDN'T!". Someone was asking about the spouses. You don't actually sleep with them (at least not mine in Riften which owns a small single bed). When my spouse is in the bed, it won't let me sleep in it. It says someone is already sleeping there.

Perhaps "sixual themes" just means it's mentioned, hinted at, marriage, etc.

The classic lust argonian maid apart from that nope.

As far as i know there is no sixual content in Skyrim!

There's a song called "The Dragonborn Comes."

Upon looking at the ratings on the back of some of my games I see that the ESRB draws a fine but distinct line between sixual CONTENT and sixual THEMES. Fallout New Vegas is rated M for sixual Content, whereas Fallout 3 is rated M for sixual Themes. It seems that if the boom-boom isn't actually going on but is alluded to it's rated for sixual Themes. The reason no one has run into sixual Content is because there is none, nor is it rated as such.

LOL people are soooooooooo concerned about sixual content, while blood splatters the screen...

Ummmm its an American game if two npc's even got close it would be a hint of something sixually suggestive.

Not those exact quotes from the ESRB but I have found similar material on random notes that are not related to any quests. They often blend with the useless items on tables, so it's easy to miss/avoid them.

It appears that if something is morally, mentally wrong in this world you can usually trace it to either USA or Japan

Definitely the finishing moves, especially the decapitations

As far as the sixual stuff... trying to figure that out myself

Pretty much this. It's just on the label in case if anybody takes offense to whatever content that might he of a suggestive nature within the game.

Wow, thanks for all the responses. The reason I was asking was to decide how much I should allow my son to play the game. I'd prefer he was not exposed to sixuality at this point in his life. I was only allowing him to play quests that I had completed and felt comfortable with the content. By the discussions here, it seems I could loosen the chains a bit with these exceptions...

No thieves guild
No dark brotherhood
Avoid Saphire and Haelga
No dibella
No book reading

Hmmm... It's worth a thought anyway.

And for those of you interested, I personally believe that the sixual content is more serious than the violence because I believe simply seeing sixual scenes can be sinful and additionally, I believe it's a lot more likely my son would try to emulate that behavior at an inappropriate time than it is that he would try to lop someone's head off with a battle axe.

I'm sure some of you will ridicule my beliefs but each to their own. I personally like my catholic faith and stick by it. Thanks again to those who helped me.

Mother of God........

When did Violence become so accepted in society, but six has now become taboo?

As a fellow Christian I believe that God created six for human pleasure and to reproduce, he certainly didn't wnt humans to be violent towards each other. Adam and Eve were even naked in the Garden before they ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and god wasen't even bothered by this. In fact, he was more bothered by the fact Adam and Eve tried to hid their nakedness. Was he offended when they had six in the garden? Which they did, otherwise Eve would never have gotten pregnant. Society has corrupted the way we think and I don't like how people are offended by looking at a beautiful creation such as the human body but not by murder, decaptitation and violence.

I am always amazed by the priorities in these ratings... six is part of our life all the time for most people at least. Beheading people and crushing skulls ? Much less I would say. And yet...

I would prefer my kid jcking off a little bit on 3D boobies than watching gore and violent actions all the time, tbo. But hey, religions say otherwise most of the time... The whole thing is completely twisted because our societies are relying too much on old religious dogmas as a whole package. But that's a big debate.

God created man so he could watch us kill each other and cheer us on.

No six though.

That's bad.

This is why they list sixual themes in the ESRB even though there is very little, so people can make informed decisions on what to allow their young ones to play.
I personally have only found a few vague references mostly in places you wouldn't find unless really exploring, and I don't think it visually depicts anything sixual whatsoever.

The irony of the western world.

violence = good, six = bad

Both, especially the US are big exporters of popular culture. So we'll get hit by the splatters from that every now and then. But yeah, there's a double standard with six vs violence in the States.


That seems like more of an American thing. The Germans seem the other way around(for some historical reasons, obviously), etc. Also, Americans seem to have this thing about how male nudity = hilarious but female nudity = porm. Could be an artifact of feminism introduced into a rather puritanical society.

I never understood why America has thie weird double standard while no other place does.

That isn't ironic. Irony would be if the OP is trying to avoid sixual content at all costs and then in doing so, stumbles on content of the exact nature he is trying to avoid.

There is more money in selling arms and weaponry than selling contraceptives. It's all about marketing.