Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA

d writes "Gamespot has an article about an association of prostitutes protesting the GTA games. Apparently, the sex workers of the Sex Workers Outreach Project aren't too happy about their ingame counterparts being treated violently in the GTA games. They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards prostitutes in real life."

Comments

Prostitutes?

[Dog Chapman]

Fuck them!

Re:Prostitutes?

[JoeLinux]

Naww....you might catch something...

Re:Prostitutes?

[Y0tsuya]

These lame protests will be nothing compare to the fallout from my upcoming game: Imam Turkey Shoot.

Re:Prostitutes?

[russ1337]

you dont pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave....

Re:Prostitutes?

[marko123]

"The Crucifix?"

Justifying your vice.

[suso]

I would think that this kind of reasoning would justify murderers to call for a ban on CBS (Crime Broadcasting Station).

Here's to calling the kettle black

[sexyrexy]

Sex workers definitely aren't a bad potential influence on children.

Oh, wait.

Re:Here's to calling the kettle black

[luder]

"we take pride in glamorizing violence "

You mean sex, right?

Re:Here's to calling the kettle black

[stupidfoo]

I've always wanted to be a prostitute. This whole IT thing is just temporary.

Re:Here's to calling the kettle black

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been doing research into the game in question and my finding show that it at no part in the game forces you to kill hookers than it does force you to kill children or elderly people or anyone else for that matter (except gangsters, a lot of the time you have to kill them, which supports my hypothesis that the GTA line is inherently good in teaching kids that if you become a gangster, some badass man with a rocketlauncher and a lust to kill that would give Hitler a hard-on is probably going to come shit on you and your friends parade one day. But yea, you pay the hooker money, you drive to a place they find suitable (showing you have to respect hookers opinions) and you have sex, then you gain 125% health (but decrease your % sperm) and the hooker goes back to work, and you go back to killing off gangs singlehandedly and punching old women across the street while high on drugs then beating them to death with a bat for 45 minutes (my nephew seems like a nice 10 year old kid, all sports and smiles, visited him recently and watched in fasincation as he beat an old woman with a two foot long purple dildo he found in the communal showers at the police station for 45 minutes before going back to picking up hookers (always respectfully, and there to me is the perversion in our society).

Wait, isn't prostitution illegal?

[Anonymous Coward]

So we're getting calls to ban a form of entertainment... from the purveyors of a widely banned form of entertainment.

Something about glass houses comes to mind here.

Why haven't police done the same?

[merreborn]

There's at least as much cop killing in GTA as there is ho slaughtering.

They've got it backwards

[szembek]

I think they're looking at this all wrong. In GTA a prostitute makes your health improve, while in real life I would say your chances of getting syphilis are much higher than of that bullet wound in your leg healing after a visit with a hooker. With this logic they should look forward to increased business!

In other news...

[Godai]

...drug dealers, car thieves & other criminals are suing Hollywood because they claim movies encourage people to dress up like spiders and beat them up.

In related news, the Plate Glass Association of America (PGAA) is contemplating class action suits of their own, citing numerous examples of films, games & other media where violence is perpetrated on -- or more commonly through -- their members.

How's Jack going to react?

[JoeLinux]

Disclaimer: I am a Christian. However, Jack Thompson is of the notorious southern-baptist style bible-thumping crowd. This places him on the same side as prostitutes. I can't WAIT for someone to point this out to him.

We should have a slogan:

"Jack Thompson: Working with the street-walkers to keep your kids safe"
"No-body has their pulse on the average American cum-catcher like Jack"

I an just see the trials on CourtTV now

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

Whore: "I promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

Attorney: "Are you a prostitute?"

Whore: "Yes, I am" ...

CNN's Anderson Cooper: "And in today's news, the 1000th prostitute was thrown in jail for admitting they were in the illegal sex trade. Thousands more are lining up around the block to give their testimony to the supreme court...."

Re:I an just see the trials on CourtTV now

[tomjen]

Whore with brains: "I plead the fith"
Attorney: "Oh shit"

Re:I an just see the trials on CourtTV now

[Anonymous Coward]

Attorney: "Are you a prostitute?"

Whore: "Yes, I am" ...

Attorney: "House or Senate?"

Re:I an just see the trials on CourtTV now

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Well, thank god she didn't spell it correctly.

Re:Makes sense...

[Tackhead]

> Pot, meet Kettle.

Oh, great. You had to bring the NORML folks into it...

Disappointed with Link...

[Jamil Karim]

On the Sex Workers Outreach Project homepage, I clicked on "Calendar", but all I got was a list of upcoming events... =(

Strange bedfellows

[hal2814]

Prostitutes and religious zealots are both against the GTA series. What stange bedfellows...

Re:Strange bedfellows

[British]

I'm just waiting for a group of drug dealers to protest GTA.

Yes, we have everyone from all walks of life protesting GTA. All the good & bad people(depending on your perspective) are putting aside their differences to stop GTA. GTA is helping unite the world. Pimps will stop slapping their hoes, drug dealers will stop killing deadbeat buyers and Hatians will stop, um, whatever Hatians do for a moment to protest a freakin' video game.

Before GTA, wow, we were so blind to the social problems in the world. We only needed a video game to finally reflect it!

The new rallying cry...

[TiggertheMad]

Won't someone please think of the prostitutes!

You're already selling yourself

[tengu1sd]

I've always wanted to be a prostitute. This whole IT thing is just temporary.

Let's see, hookers sell a few hours of their time, perform questionable acts for money, and in the ideal situation, make you feel like you'r the most important part of their day. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices.

System admin, sells all of his or her time, performs questionable acts for money. May try to make his customers happy. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices. Demanding customers may make this difficult.

Consultant. See hooker.

All in all, a hooker has better pay scale, less hours, and a chance to negotiate a better working environment. Also less likely to be outsourced.

Re:You're already selling yourself

[spac3manspiff]

Both are hands-on jobs..

Re:You're already selling yourself

[cloak42]

All in all, a hooker has better pay scale, less hours, and a chance to negotiate a better working environment. Also less likely to be outsourced.

Plus there's actually the occasional orgasm for a hooker. When was the last time you were able to come while adding a rule to your firewall?

Re:You're already selling yourself

[Lehk228]

if your hooker has worms she is probably already dead.... then again you probably already knew that and paid extra for the service.

Re:You're already selling yourself

[karlto]

Also less likely to be outsourced.

I can't say that I've worked at many places with an in-house hooker...

Re:You're already selling yourself

[really?]

This morning.

Re:You're already selling yourself

[raddan]

When was the last time you were able to come while adding a rule to your firewall?

You're obviously not using pf!

In other news...

[east coast]

The heroin lobby is calling for a boycott of the latest SWAT video game claiming that it gives them a bad name and portrays them as little more than common thugs who exploit the addicted.

Stage a Protest!

[Mazda6s]

Chant: "Hell no! We won't blow!" *Shamefully stolen from a co-worker*

Criminals are not happy either.

[blanks]

Gamespot has an article about an association of Criminals protesting the GTA games. Apparently, the Criminals of the Criminals Outreach Project aren't too happy about their ingame counterparts being treated violently in the GTA games. They note that the games are a bad influence on children, and might encourage rape and violent behavior towards Criminals in real life."

How about a trade-in program?

[realmolo]

You know, like "guns for toys"?

Except it will be "GTA for BJs".

You've got bigger problems

[artoo]

You've got bigger problems than worrying about legalities if the woman you're having sex with is an ACTOR in your film...unless of course your film is "Best of Both Worlds".