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

river82 and melbella Thank you for actually answering the question rather than personally insulting. I appreciate it.

If you feel insulted by someone telling you that you misunderstood something, then you have some deep seated issues you might want to look into.

Your constant subtle bashing me over the idea says otherwise. But it's no big deal.

It's nothing wrong enjoying sex scenes as long as it's well done and not so boring and covered in underwear. Who would pay 60$ for that shit?

The condescending remarks were earned from the previous 40 pages where she's attacked and belittled people for not sharing her view.

I'll take the brothel and have them include Andromeda-tier sex scenes. Hah! Loophole!

But seriously I'd take the brothel as it's something that helps me to define my character and offers the opportunity for roleplay & maybe sidemissions. 

While I've always been a vocal proponent of Bioware not shying away from including nudity in appropriate romance related scenes, be they lead in or lead out, I'm actually in favor of them fading to black for the sex itself because that to some extent takes away a bit more control of my character in that it defines how they fuck. While there are hints, implications, and innuendo, I'm generally left to fill in the blanks for what specifically my Warden was doing with Morrigan and Leliana, what specifically my Hawke was doing with Isabela and Merrill, what specifically my Adaar was doing with Cassandra or what my Lavellan was doing with Blackwall. While I did enjoy the scenes, nothing was left to the imagination with my Sara & Peebee or my Scott & Cora.

I appreciate that in Cassandra's scene or Sera's scene, or in Bull's third scene they don't wait until after they've gotten dressed to start up conversation, like they just can't stand to talk to each other without their clothes on. And I maintain that Traynor should have been naked in the shower before they cut away in ME3. But that's lead in, lead out stuff. Don't need to see what goes on between one and the other.

Ah, okay. Yeah I never tried to attack or belittle other people's opinions about this.
No worries.

Here in the states they glorified it as opposed to offensive

This comment on brothels by darrah is a good sign that da4 is further along in development

If you don't want people to talk down to you, it helps not to make arguments like "women are ugly" and "gay people aren't being hidden away". Because things like that are like a neon sign saying that you shouldn't be taken seriously.

Thing is, it doesn't do that. At all. The brothels in Origins and DA2 tells us nothing about the world, unless you're inferring that having a sex industry automatically makes a community "dark and twisted". Prostitution happens to be legal in my country, and it's actually a pretty safe, clean place to live. They also don't show us anything bizarre or grotesque. BioWare's portrayal of the sex industry is milquetoast at best, and played for laughs. It's all winks and nods.

The brothels don't DO anything, except take your digital money in exchange for a short animation and a fade to black that does nothing to develop the plot, characters or settings. Okay, so they serve as backdrops for a couple side quests, but there's no reason those places HAD to be brothels. Isabela can play cards anywhere, templars can be seduced by anyone. Even if you HAVE to have a brothel in your game, and chances are you don't, there's no good reason to put resources into a game mechanic that allows players to patronise it. It serves no function. It literally only exists because developers think their target audience fantasizes about going to brothels. It's just empty, fleeting titillation.

The prostitutes in DA2 aren't "like" anything. They barely have character (I'd argue they don't have any). They are dolls that you can have sex with.

Why shouldn't I expect BioWare to take the issue of sex work seriously? They have their woefully inadequate homophobia storyline, and their very thinly veiled racism themes. They reflect the real world when it suits them to do so, when they think they'll be lauded for it.

As it happens, I don't expect BioWare to delve into the ethics of the sex industry or the plight of the workers, and if they tried I bet it would be awful. What I do expect is for everything in a game, or any piece of media, for that matter, to have a good reason for being there.

Right. In HBO terms, it's Cathouse, not The Deuce.