Back in March, Australia's Classification Board let slip that there will be no knocking spaceboots in Starfield—and for those unfamiliar with the vernacular, that means no sex. But now the ESRB rating is up, and according to that, you will have the opportunity to play chesterfield rugby with various NPCs, and engage in some genuinely jaw-dropping dialog when it's over.
Australia rates games with a simple, colorful chart that breaks down various elements of content—violence, language, nudity, that sort of thing—over six arbitrarily-defined categories. The ESRB takes the opposite approach by describing a game's content with a big wall of text. Some of it, such as "Players use futuristic guns, lasers, axes, and explosives to kill enemies," is very mundane. Other bits are almost silly in the amount of detail they offer up.
