Darkchrono, I understand you have every right to be upset about this. Scarcely clad characters do offend some people, and obviously, you're one of those people.

However, I think you are going to have to accept some of these things as fact. Sex is part of our society. It is something that everyone is going to deal with someday, it's something everyone has always had to deal with all throughout history. Just because our society advertises it, doesn't make it right or wrong. It just means that it's something that grabs people's attention, it's something people are interested in.

Like eternalshiva said, it all has to do with the image that people wish they could attain. Be it the god-like, muscular body, or the sleek and smooth sexiness that the characters seem to be displaying now. Square Enix is trying to promote their game by using something they know that interests people. If it's a sexual thing, they're going to use it, their goal is to make money, they are a company.

I believe that The Abominatrix has already debunked your theory of this being a new thing enough. You're going to have to accept that this is not a new thing to Final Fantasy, and if you wanted to bitch and moan about it, you should have been doing it years ago. I'll give you a countdown from X-2 to the earlier games, take a look at how much it changes... or how little really.

X-2: Rikku and Yuna showin' lots of skin and leg. Rikku even showing the side 'straps' of a bikini style or thong underwear.

X: Rikku still showin' a lot of skin and Lulu sporting some large breasts. Neither of that is new to the series either.

IX: Just look at Garnet and tell me that her skintight jumpsuit isn't as provokative as anything else I've said so far. It's skin tight! Not to mention Zidane's comment in Dali.

VIII: Rinoa is wearin' spandex for christ's sake. Sure, she has a jacket over it, but she's showin' just as much leg as Rikku and Yuna are in X-2.

VII: Look a Tifa, take a gander for a second. Now, tell me where your attention is drawn.

VI-IV: You can't see it, 'cause the graphics don't allow it, but as The Abominatrix has pointed out, they're all pretty much wearin' bathing suits, and in FFIV, as Ash said, there's those dancers. Sure, you can't see it, but just talk to the people in the area and you know what the place is supposed to be.

I-III: Honestly, there's really nothing scandalous about these. I've played I and II, and seen screen shots of III, and there's nothing terribly provokative, but some monsters are sure wearin' close to nothing... humanoid monsters!

Really, your proof is debunked right there. If you still feel strongly about it, please feel strongly about it to yourself after you've expressed your views. We really don't need you to be fightin' a war on your own when nobody is siding with you. If you don't respect something about a game, you shouldn't really come and complain about it to us, we can't do anything about it.

If you feel this is such a big issue, talk to Square Enix about it. But chances are, that's futile. They will probably just ignore you, or you'll get some kind of crap response telling you it's not their responsibility who gets their games. If a ten-year-old is playin' a teen game, it's their parent's fault. That was your biggest arguement, introducing younger people to this too early, but that's not the video game industry's problem, that's the parent's problem.

Just because there are some people who find this disgusting or inappropriate for others, doesn't mean they're going to stop making it. Just because some kid gets his hands on a material that is rated T or M, doesn't make it their problem. You're going to accept that on this arguement, that you're the minority and that all you're ever going to be told is, "If you don't want to see this kind of stuff, don't buy the game/movie/ect." Complaining will get you nowhere. Society doesn't always agree with what's moral, get used to it.