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Old 02-23-2009, 04:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Rape Videogame Simulation: How is this worse than shooting to death hundreds?

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Amazon Drops Rape Simulation Video Game
Amazon Drops Rape Simulation Video Game
By Margaret, 3:30 PM on Thu Feb 12 2009, 70,479 views

Reports across the pond claim that Amazon.com has stopped selling the game Rapelay, a Japanese video game that involves the player stalking victims and then raping them.

The rape simulation game involves players chasing a mother on the subway and violently raping her, and then tracking down and raping her two daughters described as virgin schoolgirls. The game includes even more horrific details according to online game reviews, such as the option get other men to join in the attacks, having to force the women to get abortions if they get pregnant, and what a review (NSFW) from Something Awful says are "tears that glisten and move in the little girl's eyes."

Following a report from the Belfast Telegraph that Amazon was selling the English version of the game, the company has removed it from the site. Amazon has not commented on the item or said why it was being sold through their website. The screen shot below from Google's cache shows the Amazon page for the game before it was taken down.

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When I fire up a modern game on a modern console or PC I am often struck with nostalgia. I recall the joys I once experienced, hunched over my Atari 2600, entranced by the vaguely human shapes moving around the screen and throwing dots at each other. I can't help but look at the roaring demonoids and wailing 5.1 surround drop ships and bounding Pinatas and marvel at how far videogames have come, but there is the nagging suspicion that those simpler games and simpler times were in most ways better. Eating prostitutes with a crowbar in Vice City is great fun, to be sure, but does it still have that same innocent wonder to it as chowing down on power pellets and blue ghosts?

In the immortal words of Eleanor Roosevelt, "So, too, go the rape games". Custer's Revenge was a joy to play, just you and the Indian squaw tied to a pole with her angry red blocks for nipples. Your proud white man's erection thrust towards her as you avoided the many perils of the Wild West, come to sting your penis. The joy of raping that Indian woman tied to the pole was simple and pure.
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While don't find this game attractive in anyway and very repulsed by the very idea, I cannot help but think that the taboo here is not really much different than someone who goes around pretending to be a gangster capping people in the head (Grand Theft Auto III-IV) Or driving a car around the city trying to cause as much damage as possible to all property (Burnout)... at what point is simulation bad?

I'm having a hard time understanding just how bad this is or different than being able to have kills and headshots.

Yes, I can agree with everyone that it is rape, that it victimizes women, makes them powerless. But this is again, simulation. If you say that this is bad. How come murdering thousands by the uzi clip isn't just as bad? Is is just that the Governator made it ok with his puns and action hero movies of the 80s?

Help me understand this better. Post your thoughts as you understand them.
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