GTA Sex Game Debate Intensifies

The ESRB kerfluffle with Rockstar shows no signs of ebbing. Gamespot is reporting that a watchdog group has gotten into the act. From the article: "The Minneapolis-based watchdog group, founded by Dr. David Walsh, previously decried the game for its glorification of cop-killing with an online petition. Now the group is issuing a National Parental Warning for the game, giving concerned mothers and fathers a heads-up that their children could be playing with their joysticks in an inappropriate way. The National Institute on Media and the Family joins an already active debate on the game, its content, and the appropriateness of its current M rating." Additionally, the Dutch hacker who claims to have uncovered the game content has been identified. From the article: "...the mod was authored by 36-year-old Patrick Wildenborg, a Dutch gamer and a member of the modder community...Wildenborg insists that the X-rated code is already in the game and that all his patch does is bypass the game's 'censor flags.'" Among many others, Game Girl Advance has commentary on the story.

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Re:This is pure STUPID

[redwiregmail]

FBI Crime Statistics for year ending 2004: Nationaly Reported Violent Crimes: 258,000,968 Department of Justice Statistics: National Reported Criminal "Lewd Acts" 148,011 I think you might be onto something there :p

Re:This is pure STUPID

[vansloot]

Yeah, Europe is the epitome of "balance, well-rounded individuals." Those "religious outcasts" *left* because of state-sponsored religion in Europe.

Your post shows that you've never actually spent any time in the U.S. If you had, you would know that what is presented in the media is very unrepresentative of the average person in the U.S.

Re:This is pure STUPID

[GeckoX]

If it wasn't TABOO they wouldn't even blink at crap like this.

It is purely because sex is TABOO in north america that teenagers migrate so much towards sex.

Teenagers are programmed to do one thing well, break rules. Push the boundaries. What's the biggest boundary presented to teenagers in north america? Yeah, you've got it.

Ignorance is bliss, until your teenager comes home knocked up.

Nudity is our natural state, get over it.
Fucking is why we are here, get over it.
Trying to change or hide these pure truths does absoltely NOTHING but cause problems.

Think about this for a second: Why is it OK to put videos of someones horny chihuahua attempting to mate with a saint bernard on a family oriented home video show, and yet god forbid the children are exposed to a freaking _breast_ for fucks sakes.

(Think about that point in particular, it's mind boggling what we do to children. You're born, you're stuck on a breast immediately, and from then on society attempts to beat 'breasts are bad' into said child for the rest of their lives. Talk about a psychological cluster fuck or what!)

Re:This is pure STUPID

[kop]

You are not going to stop teenagers having sex, they are progammed to do that. If you want to lower unwanted pregnancy you should educate children about sex and hand out condoms. To me this is so obvious that i have problems understanding what all the fuzz is about.

If you want to see the scene you can download a movie here

http://www.geenstijl.nl/paginas/hotcoffeemovie.htm l

The sex is not as abusive as the rest of the gameplay, you are supposed to give her pleasure. It is probably the most female friendly part of the game ;)
Silly part is that he keeps his clothes on while she is naked.

Re:This is pure STUPID

[aywwts4]

Seriously though, after doing some research this seems to be the best source of info I could find http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/cius_03 /xl/03tbl01.xls
(It's an Excel file, but loads fine in OO)

It only goes to 2003, seems like 2004 data is still preliminary