My understanding --- which I can't in any way back up --- is that exposure to nudity was pretty much the norm for most of human history, in that families lived together in single rooms.
It's the (accidentally or otherwise) killing people part that bothers me about this.
I've studiously avoided exposing my (now 10.5 and 8.5 year old) kids to sexual material because it's unpleasant for me to have to deal with the questions (though the boy's pretty much already gotten the details formally now).
I find it odd that sexuality and nudity are considered to be the worst things you can expose to a child. Violence, up to a point, is tolerated, but any display of sexuality is seen as adults only. Speaking directly of GTA, yes, there was some outcry over the violence contained, but the hot coffee mod received far more attention.
I've met a fair number of people who've had sex, and have had it myself, and I can't say that many have been seriously emotionally damaged because of it [1]. I've also met a few people that have taken the lives of others [2]. The damage done to someone by them killing someone else is miles away from the damage done to someone by having sex (if there even is any).
[1]: Excluding a few people I've met who have been raped.
[2]: I used to work for the military.
Well, violence was the norm for most of human history, too :-) Violence is as much a part of the human psyche as sexuality.
If you start human history from, say, 2 million years ago (or even about 100K years ago, which is the assumed date for the rise of language), yes you're right. However, by the time of Greeks at last, who were big proponents of nudity (men only, of course), this behavior was not the norm, in Greek sources it is often mentioned that other nations express shock at them for their cavalier attitude.
It's the (accidentally or otherwise) killing people part that bothers me about this.
I've studiously avoided exposing my (now 10.5 and 8.5 year old) kids to sexual material because it's unpleasant for me to have to deal with the questions (though the boy's pretty much already gotten the details formally now).
But violence still bothers me.