Everyone knows that sex sells, particularly in the video game business where the average consumer is an adolescent male with more raging hormones than purchasing discretion. However, there’s a fine line between using a little T&A to shift copies and, well, just being really creepy with inordinate emphasis on sexual objectification and voyeurism.

Surprisingly, some of the most needlessly sexually suggestive games are the most popular ones that everyone plays, and they’re not just the obscure Japanese ones or the tasteless old-school attempts at interactive pornography. Here are ten gracelessly perverted mainstream games which should make you feel more than a little uncomfortable and dirty about playing.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Wait, what? Isn’t Super Smash Bros. a light-hearted game designed for kids? It sure is, which makes all the blatant elements of sexual innuendo all the more disturbing. Take Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and how someone at Nintendo decided to add in what Japanese people evidently love more than anything else in the world: the ability to take up-skirt screenshots. Of Princess Peach. And Zelda. What the hell?

Not content to degrade merely two of Nintendo’s most iconic female characters into cheap thrills for the sexually deranged, Nintendo also stripped Metroid’s Samus Aran down to a quasi-dominatrix outfit, complete with a formfitting bodysuit and electric whip

The Sims

The Sims allows you to play God to townspeople, but the flip side is that you’re also playing the role of an omnipresent voyeur. You watch your Sims as they shower, use the bathroom and even have sex. Granted, you don’t actually get to see any nudity or the sex itself, but for those unable to use their vivid imaginations to fill in the blanks, someone created a nude patch. Now weirdoes get to fulfill their fantasies of watching Barbie dolls bathe, dry their hair and then frolic in the bed sheets.

Then again, The Sims also gives you the creative freedom to torture your Sims, even murder them by burning their house down, so this could be less of a case of being inherently perverted and more of a case of ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII crosses the line by making light of sexual deviancy - deviancy that most view as being pretty damn illegal.

For instance, the Honeybee Inn is depicted as being a neon-lit beacon for the lonely and horny. In other words, it’s glorified prostitution. Also, upon entering the mansion of Don Coreno, the resident pimp of the slums, Cloud, Tifa and Aerith are conscripted into non-consensual relations with groups of men. That’s a nice way of saying gang rape. Not only is Don Coreno a serial rapist, but his criminally licentious antics are recurring. Twice to be exact. Was one case of attempted rape not enough? Add in the whole Cloud-unwillingly-crossdressing-for-a-guy thing and it’s safe to say that this whole scene is bizarre, disturbing, and very, very dirty.