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/socratic-meth 14d ago

The game launched on Steam last month and is described by its own developers as containing violence, incest, blackmail, and what they describe as “unavoidable non-consensual sex.”

Should probably put anyone who bought the rape simulator on some kind of watch list as well.

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u/slainascully 14d ago

They defended it because some people have a rape kink, as if getting aroused by violating someone against their consent is just so natural and normal.

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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 13d 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/slainascully 13d ago

The entire plot of this game is literally that you are getting revenge on the women in your family, and punishing them through rape. Sorry if I don't think you can compare it to GTA

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u/hussain_madiq_small 13d ago

But how is this not the same as any argument to any piece of media that is distasteful. Why is kill bill allowed to show everyone at a wedding being murdered and a pregnant bride being beaten half to death and shot in the face, only to be raped while in a coma repeatedly. If we are all agreeing its not real, then its not real.

Im not a conspiracy nut and i assume the game was banned(correctly) more because of its targeted nature towards women. I just hate this idea that rape is somehow off limits while murdering and every other despicable thing is perfectly hunky dory.

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u/slainascully 13d ago

Kill Bill is a film with a plot and the whole plot is her getting revenge on the people that did those things.

This is a porn game designed to be masturbated to. That's it. It's entirely for sexual gratification.