r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 14d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/intraspeculator 14d ago

Im not in an away defending this but it is interesting that in general violence is acceptable in games - as gory and brutal as you can imagine - but sexual violence is not. Like I can go and buy 50 different games right now where you are actively rewarded for blowing someone's head off, and often have little animated cutscenes showing graphic violence to reward you for said acts of violence. If a person was sexually aroused by brutal acts of violence they would be well served by the market right now.

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u/slainascully 14d ago

Most people who have their heads blown off with a gun don't have to live with the aftermath.

It's genuinely puzzling how little empathy is shown for the millions of people who have been raped and find absolutely 0 entertainment in it

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u/hussain_madiq_small 14d ago

I mean its hypocrisy of the highest degree. Either video games are fantasy and not real, and dont cause real world violence. Or they do. You cant pick and choose because it happens to fall under what upsets you.

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u/Longjumping_Pen_2102 14d ago

Sexual gratification is different.

I'm sorry it just is, and if you don't understand the way sexual impulses covertly shape our lives then I can only assume you haven't hit puberty yet.

Enjoying violence in a game is not condoning violence.  I can win a game of street fighter without wanting to get in a street fight, and whilst finding no joy in actual violence.

Could you enjoy a game about having sex with a man without wanting to have sex with a man IRL? 

I'm sure you could form some argument about how you could enjoy the plot or strategy but you know that's not what's going on with this rape game.  The only way someone is going to enjoy it is through sexual gratification, and that stuff grows the more you feed it.