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

Not all likelihood. In Ancient Rome, for example, not only the slaves were prostitutes.

Tevinter's a seat for corruption. There may be such laws but I doubt they're paid anything but lip service to. I may be mistaken but I don't recall anything that suggested that such laws existed, however. 

Weren't the prostitute in ancient Rome precluded from certain civil rights on account of their profession? It's been a while since I last looked at life in Rome. 

But you were not comparing and contrasting. You brought a different game to the mix to compare it to the other and ignored the differences between them to try and make your point. That's sort of the epitome of apples and oranges - or, to put it in less informal terms, false equivalence.

I... heh, another false equivalence. You're talking about a different thing now that is irrelevant to the game being about fixed/customizable characters.

And before you dismiss it as something minor - I actually made it a significant point in the discussion with other people and on my own to bring why there are differences between Geralt and characters like Inky. Nobody really cares what Geralt does in his spare time. As far as regular populace is concerned, Geralt can shag people left and right without it being a fuel for political be-or-not-to-be. That's not the same with Inquisitor, who is in a different position within the world - a position that is also different to that of HoF and Hawke, at least through major portion of games about them.

I do want to be clear that I do enjoy Cassandra's romance and find it satisfying and while Josephine's doesn't personally appeal to me I don't think there's anything wrong with it; my issue isn't that the two aren't satisfying but that I don't think they're significantly different in tone and theme and therefore lack variety. Cassandra's has explicit nudity and is explicitly sexual where as Josephine's is deliberately vague on that issue and is up to the player's interpretation, but that's a stylistic decision more so than a thematic one. Both are based on ideals of high romance and while that's fine and enjoyable, I do feel short changed in not having an option like Sera or Iron Bull or going back to previous games, like Morrigan or Isabela.

Well if we're talking about prostitution, we can't forget about courtesans - the exclusive kind of prostitutes for wealthy or upper-class clients that don't just sell sex, but oftentimes companionship and other forms of entertainment like dance, playing instrument or educated conversation, and whow also not that rarely manage to secure some measure of power or influence. Greek Hetairai come to mind.

I'd say that given the Tevinter upper class is portrayed as decadent and it's possible we're going to interact with members of upper-class (aside from Dorian, Mae or other Lucerni) it's not entirely impossible to meet or see some courtesans among them too.

I'd hardly consider there to be no drama concerning Blackwall. He lies about his identity and I remember there've been threads about the lies and his crimes. The latter especially inspired discussions and strong opinions including from people whose characters romanced him.   

And ? You are saying it shouldn't be done, because, bouhou, it's bad, a reason that has nothing to do with building a story and a RP video game ? 

If you didn't say that, forget the rest of my post. However I do have strong feelings about this subject, and it's one of the rare topics potential enough to make me feel angry. 

It is a RP game, it's a video game. Players should keep their political correctness and politics where it should belong. Your character doesn't want to use sex slaves, cool then don't do it, don't pick that option. As simple as that. Have a quest to help them for example, on the opposite. There is no reason to not developp such thing simply because that would make you - the player - uncomfortable. Actually that is very helpful for building a strong emotional story, and a strong RP, where it could be shown how much slavery is not a joke. it's a game for adults. I'm tired of all these folks that ruin the entertainement and potential strong stories with their ridiculous complaints that have nothing to do with video games and where the game developpers don't dare anymore to do things they would like ( or not ) just because it would offend an annoying, authoritarian and noisy minority. I don't remember being punched in the gut with DA:I, as it was the case with DAO and DA2, even if I liked that game.

Did you see all we can do or that happens in DAO and DAII ? Did you play the dwarf origins, with the carta ? Did you play the elven origin ? It's very dark, it's also into the dragon age universe. There is no reason that DA4 should avoid a few things because of a ridiculous political correctness ( boooohoo sex slaves, it's baaad ) that has so much invaded the media nowaday, corrupted by the leftist and authoritarian ideologies or SJW like Anita ( boohouu rape, baaaad, no mooore . Yeah no it's a story, if we start removing everything that makes us uncomfortable, time to get used to only having boring stories). 

For god's  sake we were able to sell Fenris as a slave to Danarius in DAII, we could let Vaughan rape the girls in DAO, we could kill Connor. DAO was still a materpiece and people loved that game for what it was. It wasn't an issue before, why it could be suddenly now ? Rp your character as you wish, stop requiring that some content should disappear, geez. 

Anyways I hope Bioware won't fall even into that dumb political corectness. They better not spoil Tevinter. This country has definitely a dark side. I won't forgive them if they turn it into something, sort of lovely place that doesn't really fit the lore. They cannot spoil the most fascinating country of Thedas. That city better not be sanitized and absolutely clean, where we see nothing dark, while in the lore, Tevinter has definitely a dark side. Show it. Don't just talk about it.

I replayed DAO today, the dwarf origins and the elven origins, and yeah I definitely agree with all those who complained about DA:I that felt sanitized compared to the previous episodes. Impressing how just playing the dAO origins made me reallize the difference between the last episode and the two previous ones.

Also, claiming that a brothel would be a wast of resources doesn't mean anything. It helps giving life and immersion, you could have characters, quests built around that building, etc etc. I didn't feel at all it was useless in DAO and DAII anyways. 

PS : To be clear, I don't really care if we have brothels or not. 

Did you seriously just use "no drama" after a list that included Blackwall? If you discount Solas, because his romance doesn't go belly-up until the end, and neither do we know about the Dread Wolf until Trespasser, Blackwall is the most dramatic LI in the entire game. It turns out in the end that Solas is the most plot relevant LI of them all. While you may not find Cullen attractive, he is the most "traditionally" attractive of the f/m options.

Brothels are too racist or sexist or something...

You have to ask to see both some of the men and some of the women and in between them you'll have a couple of elven prostitutes with female bodies but male heads and faces with very masculine voices, with lines like, "you have to slay the dragon if you want to rescue the princess" and things like that.

brothels are demeaning to men moreso than women, I thought Bioware wanted that?