Make War not Love!

[SunoffaBeach]

Games like Fallout3 or GTA are incredibly violent.

Yet whenever game characters have sex people shout "porn" or say something like "another game trying to be crass".

The most controversial part in San Andreas was the sex mini-game and not the fact that you steal cars and kill innocent citizens.

Bethesda created a post-ap world that's more about violence and less about sex than the original.

Why is killing a woman so much better than having sex with her?

 

[Arkeotype]

because it is ok to kill someone if your not married to her. We still live in a society that, no matter how much people claim otherwise, is built on the social and moral ideals of the Church. Therefore, sex is not good unless you are married, and even potentially exposing innocent children to such depravity is a heinous crime.

As an aside, in fallout 3 there is something strangely satisfying about dismembering an npc when they refuse to sleep with you...

 

[DiamondJim]

It's a game. Wish people would get over it. I've been playing games since I was young (including games like GTA/Fallout), and thanks to my good upbringing by my wonderful family, I'm not a psychotic screw-up.
Wee.

 

[Cyclomega]

The subject is getting repetitive, and its answers too...

American/British/German/Australian parents are scared as shit when it comes to sex, somehow de jure, since porn is so easy to find on the omnipresent internet... (I haven't found the censoring so harsh here in France).
But I'm getting slightly tired on hearing the same questions and answers all the time.

American culture was mainly based on weapons to me, therefore weapons are a-ok, but tits are still a taboo (Janet Jackson anyone ?), you can't get past old farts and "concerned mothers" who have no idea what really is going on, and the media fueling fear about violence and pedophiles while sex ed fails to prevent teen pregnancies, STD spreading and rape and domestic violence still prevalent, all falls into a slimy maelstrom of misplaced accusations and biaised censoring...

In the end, eneryone loses...

 

[Jaythulhu]

Well, down here we're lucky enough to not be quite as prudish as the americans. Yet. Bare boobs, sex and swearing are all perfectly acceptable on tv and in movies. There is a very noisy minority who complain about it in games, and that usually leads to us having them banned since the SA premier is a twat who listens to them.

Funnily enough, there was a game that came out a lil while ago for the ps2 called Darkwatch or something, anyway was a vampire western, of all things, but it had two reasonably full-on sex scenes and a moderate amount of nudity, and there wasn't a peep from the god-bothering or the protect-our-children-because-we-dont-want-to-raise-them-ourselves crowds.

 

[latenightapplepie]

First off, nice topic.

Sex, I think, might be particularly controversial in video games because subconsciously some of us might still think that video games are primarily for children when in fact the average gamer's age is getting to more than 20 years.

A child being exposed to sex seems much worse than to violence because children are much more often violent beings as opposed to sexual ones (and so I would hope so).

Children will practice and think about violence a lot before they move onto sex and sexual thoughts. That said, how often do parents confront the question - "mummy/daddy, where do babies come from?"

Just my two cents.