Do BioWare game romances mean sex scenes?

Very  Freudian   , I'll fix it in the original, but leave it in your quote to maintain the sense.

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For Canadians particularly, I would have thought.

The single most awkward moment in my gaming history was when I discovered my wife was watching my computer monitor over my shoulder in the Iron Bull scene where Cassandra, Josie and Cullen walk in and my female qunari Inquisitor's breasts were on full display

Having said that;

Does romance need to mean sex scene? No, don't think so.

In the age of "The Witcher 3" etc...should it? Maybe? But no, don't think so.

To be a bit pedantic, though - I think only DA:O had "sex" scenes. Fully clothed and creepy as f**k. DA2 had "foreplay" and post-coital. I think DA:I was exclusively post-sex, wasn't it...? Although Sera's could be seen as mid-session. And the post-sex scenes are where they can easily apply nuance and character development (or at least relationship development), so those scenes should remain. I don't know how the rest of the world does it, but in my experience, sex is always conducted without clothing. So nudity makes sense. It could also take place as characters are getting dressed afterwards, so no nudity also works.

I think Kingdom Come Deliverance has a fairly explicit sex scene in it. I don't know that I'd want that. I certainly don't want a return to Origins style - whether clothed or not. For me, the Inquisition scenes were pretty much spot on. I didn't mind that Josie didn't take her clothes off. And I didn't mind that Sera, Cassandra and a female Inquisitor with Bull and Blackwall did.

MEA....well.... The scene I saw - Peebee - was imaginative...and I certainly wasn't offended by it, but it went about as far as I'd want that sort of thing to go.

It's happened to me with my daughters...

Thay all play BioWare games now, so they understand, but there are some scenes that Dad would prefer to play alone.

Looking back I think I prefer the ME1 scenes: nudity with a tasteful fade to black. Sex and showering in bras in DAO and ME3 was silly, heaving butts in MEA a little more than I wanted to see.

I don't mind seeing bare butts when they're just standing there or walking away. It's the simulated sex motion (found in PeeBee and Cora's sex scenes) that I personally find awkward.

A good romance doesn't really need a sex scene.

I bet my ass on it that it is a great relief for them not to have to care about all the silly stuff. Is like throwing ballast overboard.

No no no Mousey, when he says 'romance crazies' he's referring to all those other people over there.  Not us. 

No, a romance does not need a sex scene. Sex =/= Romance. There are romantic relationships between people that do not involve sex, and sexual relationships between people that do not involve romance. The characters you listed Suvi and Josephine are my favorite romances in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, and in the Josephine's case my favorite of all Bioware if not video game romances, and like you mentioned they don't involve sex. In fact them having at least the opportunity to be seen as nonsexual in the relationship is a notable part of why I like those romances so much. Hopefully in the future they will have more romances that are explicitly not sexual. 

Well, that's not my definition of "romance"  More like "friends with benefits"  Maybe it is "charming and entertaining"  but it's still not a "romance" in my book, which only furthers my point that you can have sex and nudity without romance.  

And again, you can have romance without nudity and sex.  One does not equal the other.