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Old 04-02-2010, 12:21 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by xepherys View Post
Really, MM?

First of all, these kinds of sexual motivators are not modern or new at all. Video games may be, but rape is as old as dirt. I think it's disingenuous to make assertations otherwise. EVERYONE has their kinks, socially acceptable or not. Mine is as mundane as redheads. Some guys dig older women. Some guys want to feel some power. Some guys want to be dominated. As long as your sexuality is played out in a consentual fashion (or in this case a virtual fashion), then what's the big deal?[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]
First of all, I hardly need you to tell me the history of rape. It is irrelevant. Rape in the past, and largely in the present, was not a form of Saturday night entertainment. My objections to this game are not based on my objections to rape - which are objections prob. shared by most of the people on this board.

Second of all, I really don't need you to tell me about kinkiness, particularly about rape fantasies. My objections to the extension of fantasy to the realm of what could loosely be considered non-consensual roleplaying is that there is no mutually agreed upon 'control' - it's a free-for-all with one participant in control. And not just played out in the mind, but being visualized for you with sight and sound. I think it crosses the line from fantasy into something else...that I don't have a name for.

Thirdly, before someone tries to force the moniker of 'censor' onto me, I have no desire to see these games banned. What I would like to see is less people finding these things to be acceptable - and that includes any ultra violent forms of role-playing, not just these games.
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