In my outrageous twenties I asked a charming, chatty Englishwoman I’d met in Villefranche when people stopped having sex.

But the sprays of blood and the ability to literally blast an enemy into bloody chunks of meat is removed. Yet until as recently as 50 years ago or so, women were meant to move from virginity to marriage to young motherhood – with no sex education. Over the past 25 years I have tried to work with the Metal Gear series to introduce more mature themes, but really it hasn't gotten there yet. I’ve learnt to live with the fact that Antonio Banderas would probably not want to have sex with me even if we were shipwrecked. Do you have some wild sex fantasies that you would rather let them live in the fantasy world because they are so much of a taboo?

How refreshing therefore to see beauty brand Olay leading the way with their new “ageless” campaign that engages with women by appealing to how they act, think and feel rather than a number. If you try to pull the arm off a Locust in Gears of War 3 and the filter is on, you'll punch the creature in the face instead. The resulting, much-tamer depiction of violence against fictional creatures had me reconsidering my hard no-mature games rule, but only because the game didn't seem to really deserve the rating with those filters turned on.

You are a step away from finding the best collection of hot, steamy, and passionate sex stories that will keep you entertained, relaxed, curious, excited, and very horny for hours on end! I am looking forward to the day when health communications will be more about navigating around the ageing taboo, and we can all respond to “how well do we feel” rather than “how old we are”.

But who could have known then that we were the generation that would be as hungry for life and sex as the years rolled by as we were then?

Beyond removing the appearance of blood, the gore filter will also prevent bodies from breaking apart or into chunks. So when the game is preparing to play a line of dialogue, it checks the language filter flag, and if it's set to 'on,' then it will play the filtered line with the radio static. Mature filters have been around in Gears of War since the first game hit the Xbox 360 in 2006, but initially there was some debate over whether to include the option. This was a decade that gave us truly sexual British role models: Joanna Lumley, Jacqueline Bisset, Charlotte Rampling, Helen Mirren, Diana Rigg, Felicity Kendal, Jane Birkin.The Sixties completely wiped away the notion that virginity was essential to respectability and decency. If you try to chainsaw or shot an enemy up close with a shotgun, they will die, but they won't be blown to bloody bits.

In Gears of War 2, for instance, there's a cinematic when the game's Sergeant Marcus Fenix utters an expletive. But men still fell in love and I can’t deny that it was marvellous to be a truly sexually free woman. Campaigns that move away from defining chronological age, and discussions about key health benefits and concerns, are powerful and motivating.And, at the end of the day, if these types of filters mean that a larger number of players get to experience our game then it is certainly worth the effort. Had I but world enough and time to report on the sexual activities of my men friends over 50 and 60 I could fill the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The ongoing British role model for the ideal woman was the dullest woman in screen history, Celia Johnson, the insufferably boring doctor’s wife in Brief Encounter. For every line that has a word that we want to filter out, we'll have two lines loaded in memory - one mature and the other filtered," Fergusson said. I remember at the end of one evening a man saying, “Oh, if you’re going to argue about it, forget it.