You guys both sadden me and crack me up. Do you honestly believe that the influence of violence in video games has had a greater effect on people than the rampant sixuality that is pushed around in almost every form of media? Ask yourself this question... how many people do I know that had some trauma in their life due to the misuse of their sixuality? Unexpected pregnancies? Sickness? Disease? I bet you know at least one.. Two? Three? Now ask yourself how many people you know that have utilized excessive violence in an illegal, unsanctioned manner. I GUARANTEE you, the first list is longer than the last. And even if there are a few exceptions in this forum, the combined lists of everyone would shove the sixuality problems way beyond violence.
A staggering majority of people will have six in their lifetime. It's built into us, allows the human species to exist in the first place,and is the reason why any of us are sitting at our computer today, talking about the issue. Most people WILL have six, and making it a taboo issue that's not talked about and avoiding showing normal healthy sixuality in the media contributes to the problems related to six. YOU are part of the problem. But we'll go there a bit later...
And no, none of my acquaintances has had an unplanned pregnancy or has had any sixually transmitted diseases. That might be because I live in Finland, where these issues are discussed openly and in a healthy manner.
But to put ideas like these in front of a child's eyes when they are still forming their value system, that's a different story.
This is a M-rate game. You are failing your child, if you let him/her play it.
And yes, I could simply not let him play the game at all. That's the easiest and safest solution here. But the reality for me is that my son and I love video games and TES is the best of the best for both of us. It'd sadden both of us if he couldn't even see the game. So, I simply wanted to know if there was some way I could let him play the best
video game ever made without seeing crap that I fear may actually effect his outlook on life.
Somehow you failed to mention this, and came off as fishing for the "sixy bits". Even after the ESRB rating told you that this game has lots of mature themes, you had to come and fish for specific ones. That should raise most people's eyebrows. Neither six or violence is for children. I find it funny that you're willing to allow your kid to see the latter. No matter which one you consider more inappropriate for a child, the other one still isn't harmless. Personally I consider Sam Peckinpah's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074695/ one of the best movies ever made, but I have no intention of showing it to my kids until they're old enough. Sometimes you just have to wait.
It's sad that people try to associate this with a specific country. This is Catholicism... a world wide religion. It's sad that so many people find traditional values so laughable while millions of babies are murdered in the womb because of unwanted pregnancies. You might find it funny, but for me, I'll take my path and continue to believe I made the right choices... and I'll raise my children to do the same to the best of my abilities.
Catholicism is (luckily) not a worldwide religion. It's a religion that covers up paedophilia, lies about the effectiveness of condems to promote absolute morality over people's well-being, tries to control women through their bodies, and people through their sixuality in general, and is just generally full of judgemental [censored] like you. The whole point of making sixuality seem bad, and limiting the access of the religious to it, is to make them desire it even more, and thus make them easily led, like a bull through his nose ring. The taboo against six makes you think even more about six, which makes you feel dirty, and so in need of "moral support", which you will go get from your priests. Bam! Instant control!
I'm not saying other religions are much better, but at least some of them don't attempt to push their twisted morality on others.