FrodoBaggins: Isn't it great to live in a world where nothing is sacred, nothing is special? Where porn is how children learn about sexuality?
No one ever expects that. A game ad which shows a dressed woman (other than in certain fantsy games, let's just say "bikini armor") does not teach about sex.
Not even the store pages show anything and that's already hidden by a disclaimer.
FrodoBaggins: The man is not treated like that. The man is treated with respect.
Sorry, but that's complete [edit: removed]. Men are treated as objects just the same.
The only difference is who's willing to pay, that something with a woman on the cover sells better than something with a man on the cover.
I can't say much about the adult manga VNs on GOG, I don't play these. But I can tell you, that in most other stories the guy is just there ... to be there.
These games on GOG have not much in common with the old style porn games. What we get here, are stories with some lewd content. And even for that kind of "game" (VNs are hardly games, they are in the best case interactive stories) they are quite harmless. Try to get your hands on some games from Illusion, that gives you a whole new perspective. Regarding those I would agree on some points.
But here's another question: Why don't you treat killing and gutting people in games that way? Are you happy with a world where children learn about killing in movies and games? What about mistreating animals? "Take that, you turtle, now give me the coin!". Are they learning about thieverie by playing Adventure games? About driving by playing racing games?
If we start to ban games with sexual content, we also have to ban violent content, which probably make two thirds of all the games.
Games get a rating, which is perfectly ok. Some are ok for children, some are not.
And those which are not, have a warning when you go to their webpage.
If your kids don't respect you enough to ignore that warning, then they get their hands on violent
and sexual content without your approval.
It would not change a thing if only one of the two was banned, they still would access the other.