"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

The Veil went according to plan, and in fact worked too well. He didn't count on the weakened elves continuing to squabble and the humans being capable of taking advantage of it. Same with the Orb and Corypheus. The plan was solid, but there was no way to account for the unlikelihood of Cory knowing the immortality trick. He may have even trapped the Blight in the Black City, but boom, the magisters broke in and let it all out again. I wonder if that's why he says humans are always blowing things up in that early conversation with Varric. Must have been a helluva night in the Fade.

He played the Inquisitor like a fiddle in the main game, then in Trespasser got them to clean the Eluvian network out for him, and stopped the Qunari from taking out the leadership of Southern Thedas for him, while he did his own stuff elsewhere. I'd say those plans worked out pretty well for Solas.

If you can design a market full of random vendors, you can design a brothel full of random prostitutes.  Make it a quest hub and you get more resources devoted to it.  The point is, things like this add to the ambiance of the world.  I personally feel like a city is much more alive when these things are included.  Denerim was tiny in DAO, but felt much more lively than VR in Inquisition.   One the reasons for this was, of course, the brothel.

What about other things a city is bound to have? Banks, universities, churches, theaters, barracks, taverns... Heck, if one must see people naked, we’re going to Tevinter! Surely they have bathhouses there?

Actually...a bathhouse would be more in-keeping with Tevinter imo, as far as sordid activities go among nobles. It fits with their whole, keeping unsavory activities behind closed doors (blood magic, homosexuality etc) thing.

Maybe they could have a standard bathhouse, with a reputation.

Again you miss the point. It isnt about Bioware being able to tell the story they want, it is about Bioware not telling a story with the similar tone and atmosphere as say DAO or DA2.

I would suggest an alternative option: Convert to the Qun and enjoy those tamassran services.

True, but you have to admit it's odd, considering the setting we don't see at least one Imperial house of Earthly delights. We don't want ol Tevinter to end up looking like this

There's no single completely unified point on either side of this debate/arguments (or of most debates on here). "...to tell the story they wanted" was Naughtynomad's language.

But fine, why is a brothel (where we can choose the "surprise me" option, fade to black, and find ourselves in a room with 2 nugs) so important to the atmosphere?

Yes you have. You've said multiple times how Bioware seems unwilling to go back to how the setting was in DAO and DA2 but instead this is a sign they will continue to sanitize the setting like they did in DAI. That fits under the definition of restricting, so that has been what you are saying, intentionally or unintentionally. 

Yes. Even the OP has pretty much washed their hands of this thread. 

They're optional to have sex with someone you know. No one is forcing players to see sex scenes. I'm beginning to think that people over here have issues with sex.