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Is this any different from letting them use a web browser? If they want to access that stuff they probably already can.

Steam already has parental controls. Even AAA games have been selling titillating nudity for a while so you'd best already be using it.

And honestly any kid who's started puberty is going to try to watch VR porn videos, which are already easily accessible. So keep an eye on your Vive / Oculus.

I feel great about this. Currently it's very hard to filter out games with gun violence.

If Steam is successful with their plan to "enable you to override our recommendation algorithms and hide games containing the topics you're not interested in" then I look forward to having an easier time finding child-friendly (gun-free) games.

The same way you keep them from playing other games that are too violent, or games that are too scary for their age?

Good parental control settings and monitoring of their computer usage.

Steam will ask kids when their birthday is before giving access.