I understand what you mean. You have a point.
What if you had an option not to see it. You can just avoid the flask back with an option. They had sex, but you have an option not to see it. Are fine with that?
I am asking this to get an understanding about these things as a game developer.
Would have been nice to have a choice yes. You get a few renders of them in bed together during the intro, but nothing lewd, and that's plenty to illustrate the point. If I remember, you see the full scene later, when Ashley is talking to someone else and remembering more vividly the full scene.
It seems really out of place in this game, as there are no other scenes with love interests and other dudes, past or present.
Kind of feels like the Dev was trolling some more sensitive players.
There is a lot of conflict between players over MrDots other game, DmD.
In chapter 3 and 4, sharing and swinging options become available for the main love interest, which caused quite a fracture of the player base.
This scene kind of feels a bit like a middle finger from Dots to the players who didn't appreciate that content so much.
Personally, I feel like DmD should have ended with chapter 2, but that's off topic.