Talk:The Witcher 2 romance/@comment-71.201.77.181-20151103190341/@comment-144.134.38.49-20161013064947

It's simply a function of our age ratings board. The standards they have to assess things by are archaic and the actual members of the board don't have the freedom to develop those standards themselves. We don't have an R-rating (18+) for games and would need legislation to change that. Unfortunately this is not an issue important to politicians or the majority of the public, and politically we are fairly conservative, with the two-party vote balanced on a knife-edge. Neither side wants to make an issue out of something that won't win votes, especially when doing so might paint them as "morally lax". As a result, we can't have things like drug use or sex as a reward in video games, although both are perfectly acceptable in virtually every other form of media.