UN Group Urges Japan to Ban Explicit Games and Manga

[bluepilot]

I just looked up on the internet and Japan ranks 54th out of 65 for rapes per capita.

So it seems that, despite having violent pornography than most parts of the world, rape rates (or at least REPORTED rape rates) remain very low.

Plus, South Africa has the highest rate rate and I bet that they never played rapelay or anything.

So, there does not seem to be a link between the amount of violent pornography available and the rate of rapes. But, correct me if you find anything to contridict this.

I am all for women`s rights in Japan and everything (being a woman in Japan for a start) but I do not think that violent games cause people do to violent things.

At the end of the day, the woman who is being raped is just pixels on a screen. I think that most men will deal with pixelated images and real women in very different ways.

There are much bigger causes to rape than computer games, the UN should be addressing these.

 

[JaredXE]

Seriously, a special UN committee for sexual discrimination? Oh wait, it's for FEMALE sexual discrimination.......sexist dicks.


I am a firm believer in that freedom of speech and expression should always be held above the pettiness of modern culture. Even if Japan doesn't necessarily have those freedoms, politicians change...societal mores change.....ideals shouldn't.

Hell, I HAVE that damn game on my computer after I heard about it. Have I played it? No, I just grabbed it because it existed. Would I ever do any of the action depicted? Oh HELL no! But is it's very existance, or the existance of others like it deserving of being banned/censored because no one understands the concepts of personal responsibility and the right of a citizen to tell the government to "Fuck off, I can make my own decisions on what is cool with me or not!"

Ah well, it's the UN. When have they ever held any power that the U.S. hasn't given to them?

 

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The committee concluded with a request to Japanese lawmakers "to ban the sale of video games or cartoons involving rape and sexual violence against women which normalize and promote sexual violence against women and girls."

Wait, so I can still make cartoons where I rape men and boys? SCHWEET!
This just shows the fail of this movement.

That's what I'm wondering. Why did they feel it necessary to even add the "women and girls" thing? What about sexual violence against men, boys, animals? I mean, it's completely redundant in context, and it's needlessly restrictive in terms of what they're actually trying to achieve. While the Japanese lolicon industry is surprisingly large, there's an insane amount of shotacon available as well - do they think it doesn't matter, or..?

If anything, this just shows how little the UN actually cares about fictional rape. If they were actually trying to stop it, they'd be more general - emphasising the "women and girls" part just illustrates how much they're pandering to the extreme feminist groups that engineered all this furore to begin with.

 

[Sevre]

I'd laugh if this worked.

EDIT: In the long term I mean.

 

[raxer92]

Who the hell do these people think they are? Japan's freaking "PERVERT" market makes a shit load of money, plus its "THEIR" market, and last i checked werent people free to sell whatever they wanted in their "specific" market and not internationally? Cause im pretty sure they dont sell the weird rape games outside of japan, or do they?

 

[mxfox408]

F*** The UN, The UN is a prejudice club of fat politicians who do nothing but eat overspend and critisize others. The UN should take a dive off a cliff with a Jagged rock bottom. I'm sick of people blaming the game devolopers for thier children being exposed to these games. Maybe people in the west need to learn how to actually be real parents instead of letting thier kids do whatever they want.

 

[ghostinthenight]

*sigh* the UN has no right to tell Japan what it should or shouldn't do, if they want to allow that then that is their right as a country to do it, the UN just needs to ban it in THEIR country and crack down more on piracy so it doesn't affect them.

But by no means take this that I am in support of such games/anime, I'm in support of a government's right to do have things their own way in their country, they aren't forcing this game on us, or encouraging us to buy it.

 

[brunothepig]

I don't like Rapelay. I don't like child pornography. I don't like etc. However, I definitely don't like censorship. This game isn't hurting anyone, I would actually guess that it helps people suppress urges of this nature. Which means it may well be keeping children safe. So no, Japan, keep this up. It's nice to see non-conformity, even if on some levels it disgusts me.
And, why does this committee even exist? I'm not saying it's not an admirable goal, but there are millions of people starving to death. Seems like they could be spending there time organisisng charities and whatnot. And there are countries where women have almost no rights, Afghanistan for one. How about you work on that problem, if you must keep this committe going. Diplomatically, not just sending in guns.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

"Hey, country that isn't under our rules and regulations! Do what we tell you!"


Let them have them, it's not like it's affecting them or us.

I agree, it's not availiable for legal sale outside of Japan, so we're unaffected.

 

[Lusulpher]

"First they came for RapeLay, I did nothing, for I did not play RapeLay."

Normally I would let them take it screaming into the backyard...where they would rape and or shoot it or both...but I sense they intend to ban End of Evangelion also.

Why did they mention manga and anime?? Other than the Westernized properties their women now portray as big-busted sex tools for superhero Ken-guys. Oh yeah, wonder where/when they learned that? About 1945?

That cannot be allowed. This here is a slippery slope and I need MORE sex in my Japanese animated violence.

Maybe they should ban the LACK OF PUNISHMENT FOR REAL RAPE?

 

[Rabarberskurk]

Oh tap-dancing Buddha on a communion cracker! Can't the UN prioritize anything?

You have the entire middle east which treats women like property, Chinese parents still illegally kill female children at or before birth, and the most of Africa believes that the cure for aids is to rape a virgin, and they're wasting their time on fucking VIDEO GAMES?

I agree with this. While you may think these things shouldn't exist, you should keep in mind that these are fictional and harmless things compared to, oh I don't know, REAL crimes?

You know something is wrong when people get punished for victimless actions while real problems with real victims gets pushed aside.

It's like they're ignoring real problems because they are too much work and instead ban harmless material just so they can have their own moral victory.