Theory: Contrary to a literal reading, the harem fantasy is not about sex, but is instead a male fantasy of having more than one person you're allowed to be emotionally intimate with without having to give up a performance of masculinity that denies the need for that.
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Apparently not everyone is familiar with the term "harem fantasy" and are assuming I'm talking about something closer to a historical harem (which were Bad). "harem fantasy" is a trope name and generally refers to lots of women voluntarily interested in the protagonist.
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I think a surprisingly large number of instances of the harem trope in fiction have little explicit content though.