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GTA had a "hot coffee" fiasco that turned the game from Mature to Adult Only by having exactly one explicit scene that you can't get to without hacking. It's precisely as silly as calling Team Fortress an RPG.
Heh, yes, that was a very weird one. My instinct is that the ESRB would take a do-over on that one if they could. Should every moddable game immediately become AO? Of course not.
The irony was also not lost on most of the general (gaming) public that the game involves glorification of murdering cops, mass civilian manslaughter, drug use, etc., etc., and only got bumped to the AO after a mildly explicit, consensual sex scene (that you have to hack the game to watch).
I might rewrite it in a way to make it more "exciting" for the reader while being mindful to lose nothing of why the scene is there in the first place. I'd do the same thing in a game (especially Visual Novel). Would doing this push it into "porn" territory?
It's a really good question. In my own mind, it would push it closer to pornographic territory (not necessarily to the point of "being a work of porn"). I think if the primary point of something (a moment, a scene, a whole work) of a work of art is to sexually excite the audience, that's pornographic. It's not a bad thing; it's just something that should be separated in an intelligent audience's mind from simple sexual content.