I agree with you OP. Never understood why games cannot be starred by sexy people. I mean, look at shirtless Link in BotW.

I don't see an issue with it, unless its in your face all the time. I enjoy the Dead or Alive games but can't see myself ever picking up the beach volleyball versions of the game...
There are age ratings for a reason, games are no longer just for kids these days and haven't been for a long time. Variety and information gives us the choice to play games we we feel comfortable with and can easily avoid games that may have aspects that may offend us. Which is why I can't stand people who advocate the banning of certain scenes or games based on certain content, unless of course said content really pushes the limit.

Yeah, but for example after I finished Uncharted (T rating, not the most violent game you could think of) to see in statistics I had killed more than 1200 people, and if you think about it, every few minute there were bloody head shots, strangulation, people pushed off the rock... In the meanwhile, Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball get a M rating (17+). Just imaging yourself offended at 17 by this game... it's not even nudity. So imo there is clearly a difference.

Sexuality isn't bad per se. I'd say let games do what they want (within reason), but it must be said some games can be stupidly immature about sex and sexuality, while others are more tasteful.

You can blame Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. None of them allow Adults Only games on their consoles.

That's why there are ratings for game.

If you'r a good parent, you don't let your 6years old child play GTA.

Sexuality in games is shit. The comparison between sex and violence as if they should be equal is ridiculous. The "underuse" of sex in movies and in games has almost nothing to do with religion or conservatives being against it. Sorry to break your bubble, but you aren't as radical and openminded as you think.

Of course a character can be sexy, but the term sexuality encompasses so much more than sexy looks.

And yet there's almost no value of sex in a video game. There's nothing you can do, it's completely uninteresting from a narrative as well as a gameplay perspective, just like it is in movies. Sex is private (mostly). That's why in movies it's only used as a little spice. There's only a short meaningless sex scene in every movie except for perhaps in pretentious French movies where it's sometimes dragged out. 
 
Love can certainly be interesting from a narrative perspective (love as in something that is distinctively separate from human sexuality), but people licking each other with their tongues or putting the cock in the pussy has no value whatsoever.

What are you gonna do with the sex, jerk off to a video game?

It's much like asking why aren't there more games about eating food, about sleeping or about shitting in the toilet.
 
Violence on the other hand is exciting from so many perspectives, both narrative and gameplay. No matter how much you may dislike violence in reality. Violence ties so much to our values and emotions, to fear, threat, justice, aggression, feelings, to society, to human history. Violence simply is in the core of human culture.

I'll tell you why people as a whole are more "offended" at displays of sexuality than violence.  Sexuality is more of a personal issue that effect us almost everyday of our lives as we interact with people.  Now, there are some pretty violent people out there, but I would like to think that the mass majority of us have no intentions of blowing up cars or stabbing someone in the gut until their insides all fall out.  I hope you get the picture here.  But we as living beings react to stimuli.  It's just how we are, and we need to moderate that reaction as we interact with others.

There are a number of reasons why someone takes "offense" when sexuality is displayed in most any media (such as video games).  Usually, it's a defense mechanism in which seeing something sexual triggers a sexual response within that person.  Depending how personal an individual views sexuality normally determines how "offended" a person gets.  In general, let's put it like this: When something make you happy, you smile.  When something goes wrong, we get frustrated.  More specifically when something sexually arouses you, you get turned on.  And then it's how you hand that reaction.  It's understandable why someone would feel "embarrassed" when they see a display of sexuality in a video game.  It's a reaction that being triggered that's more personal to them than others that they would prefer to keep private.  And it SHOULD BE RESPECTED.

Then there are those who live by the "letter of the law."  Those people just don't have a clue.  They are the pharisaical types, and that's for another discussion.

I don't need sexuality and/or violence in video games to enjoy it.  But I'm also not avoiding it.  What I see on the tv screen when playing a game is fiction and purely fiction.  In real life, I condemn both sexuality and violence when abused.  But I accept violence while also greiving the use of it as a last resort.  That is as far as I'll go because my view of sexuality will trigger I suspect a plethora of INTOLERANT responses, ironically very similar to those who "knee-jerk" reactively respond to sexuality in video games.

I think sexual violence in games should not become normal.

Video games are mostly a guys fantasy and of such content exists on games.

It won't be see as art but for people to live out sick fantasies in a virtual reality

Also, I refuse to participate in the poll since both options are too polarized in their implications.