The Sims 4 is expanding its sexual orientation options with new update

theverge.com:

The Sims 4 is making it easier for players to create Sims that better reflect their lived experiences. As a free update coming at the end of the month along with the High School Years expansion, players can now choose their Sims’ sexual orientation and romantic / sexual attraction.

It works like this: within the “Create a Sim” function, you’ll be able to fiddle with how your Sim experiences sex and romance. First, you can choose if your character is attracted to men or women. The Sims 4 team is aware that making this choice based on binary options isn’t ideal.

“I understand that there will be concerns here around the initial options being gender binary,” SimGuruJessica, the design lead on the High School Years expansion wrote in the developer diary. “Mechanically, non binary Sims don’t yet exist in TS4. While we made great progress in representing non binary Sims with the pronouns update, we acknowledge that pronouns are not the same thing as gender identities.”

In addition to choosing if your Sim is attracted to men or women, you can also choose how they display that attraction either via romance and / or sex as well as if that attraction can change.

With the “exploring romantically” setting, you can lock down if your Sim is only attracted to one gender of if they’re essentially still figuring it out, allowing them to potentially shift attraction from one gender to another.

Finally, the WooHoo setting establishes which gender a Sim is interested in… WooHoo-ing with. (Good grief, I get it, but WooHoo? Y’all couldn’t come up with something less embarrassing than WooHoo?) The WooHoo setting, in combination with the exploring romantically setting, allows players to create aromantic or asexual Sims. Checking nothing at all