10 Most Paused Video Game Moments Ever
6. Full-Frontal Dong - Grand Theft Auto IV
Perhaps because even showing a fully-obscured sex scene in Mass Effect gave Fox News all the ammunition they needed to spread fear that the game was nothing but a "sex simulator", the industry has always remained suggestive when it comes to showing the human body.
Male nudity in particular as always been rarer (across any medium, really) than female, but it was something Rockstar embraced wholeheartedly for GTA IV's expansion, The Lost and the Damned. In it you take an assassination request from a congressman, who gives you the briefing without wearing any briefs, with his fully-rendered genitals in view at all times. Bet he's the kind of guy who washes his hands before going to the toilet as well.
It wasn't exactly a sign that video games were finally growing up, as the whole thing is played off as an uncomfortable joke, but it was proof that the industry was indeed no longer being throttled by censorship.