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Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the times-they-are-a-changin' dept.

Slashdot reader xavdeman writes: Hot on the heels of its announcement of the specifications of the next PlayStation, Sony has revealed a new crackdown on explicit content. Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" and a concern of "legal and social action" in the USA, Sony has said it wants to address concerns about the depiction of women in video games playable on its platform as well as protect children's "sound growth and development." The new rules were reportedly already responsible for puritan cutscene alterations in the Western PS4 release of the multi-platform title Devil May Cry 5, where lens flares were used to cover up partial nudity.

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  1. #MeToo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wasn't the #MeToo movement about sexual abuse and harassment?

    I don't know of anyone, man or woman, who with a straight face and a sane mind can walk up to the podium in front of the cameras and say "I was sexually abused by my Playstation." Please join me in the fight against it!

  2. Re: Think of the children by poity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Scantily clad women in irl slutwalk: Good
    Scantily clad women in vidya games: Bad

    So the skin factor isn't the honest reason. I think it might just be jealousy. Them well-poportioend polygons, man...

    --
    your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
  3. In Germany, showing tits is pro-feminist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Women here see the freedom to be able to show their tits in public without being harassed as a women's rights moment.

    The fact that they harass us with that, eludes them.
    Sexual triggers? Men should repress them, and not be "animals". (Like that won't leave lasting damage in men who believe in such unnatural contortions...)
    Nevermind that seeing somebody naked; wanting sex with them; trying to get to know them due to attraction; and harassing them without respecting if they want too, are four different things.

    Let's see *them* repress *their* reactions when I whip it out in front of them, imagine my gilfriend, who is way sexier than them, and start masturbating!
    My actions will be completely unrelated to them. Yet they will imply that 1. they are the center of my universe, 2. I'd want sex with them, and 3. sex equals perversion and harassment, and is mutually exclusive with good manners in men. (Tootally not sexist and prejudiced and with a perverted mind ... --.--)
    Helly even if a guy or girl furiously masturbates TO me right in front of me... asking if they can fuck me... why exactly should I be bothered? As long as they don't ask again or try to touch me, or don't keep a comfortable (read: hygienicL distance, what's th harm? I'd only think "Thanks for the compliment, I guess..." and "Have fun!".

  4. Re:Think of the children by fenrif · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think Conan is created for both fantasies, just as Barbie is. I also think you are being sexist in assuming women do not fantasise about being beautiful and don't fantasise about well built men. And vice versa.