Rape & Molestation are videogame "fun" now???

Let me start this by saying that this post is exceptionally hard to write because the subject is just so disturbing that I’d rather not even think about it any further. Then why am I writing it? Because people need to know about this kind of stuff. Parents who aren’t mindful enough of their children need to know about it. Husbands who aren’t protective enough of their wives need to know about it. And all the people who make pathetic excuses that claim that our outside interest and influences from television, movies, video games and the like have no bearing on who we really are; need to know about this. Left unchecked (as it is in modern society), they all most certainly bear testament to who we can easily become.

My first knowledge of this garbage was a headline on FoxNews.com last night that drew my attention: Amazon Blocks Sale Of 'Rape' Game. “Rape game? That has to be an exaggeration” I thought. I thought wrongly.

I read the article on FoxNews that ended with a “read more” link to the original article on SkyNews out of the U.K., so I read the entire original article, which I am going to reprint below. As sick to my stomach as I was by then, I thought to myself that there was no way that something this awful could be so “under the radar” that no one knew about it except the pervs involved, and what were the odds that only Amazon had offered it for sale? After all, the article only states that they decided to ban it, not that they were the only promoters. So I typed the game name into Google and got 137,000 hits that seemed to be of three types predominantly: (1) Links to the original SkyNews article (2) Links to places to download legal and illegal copies (3) a pretty small amount of opinions and thoughts on the whole thing and (4)…reviews .

Brace yourself, read this and be appalled and prepared to lose your appetite for much of the day.

SkyNews
Amazon Blocks Sale Of 'Rape' Game

9:13am UK, Friday February 13, 2009
A Japanese computer game that lets players simulate raping girls has had its sales blocked by Amazon.

The 'RapeLay' videogame was available to buy on the web store via a third-party seller specialising in Hentai - sexually explicit Japanese animation products.

"We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item," an Amazon spokeswoman said.

Rapelay was reportedly created exclusively for the Japanese market but a couple of "like new" copies were being offered on Amazon.

The game was released in 2006 by Illusion studio, based in Japan.

Other titles from the studio include 'Battle Raper' and 'Artificial Girl'.

According to game review site Giant Bomb, RapeLay is a "molestation simulation that allows you to terrorise a woman and her two teenage daughters, with events ranging from groping on a train to gang rape and forced abortions".

The Belfast Telegraph reported that Labour MP Keith Vaz said he was shocked by the Amazon listing and planned to raise the issue in Parliament.

Mr Vaz told the paper: "It's intolerable that anyone would purchase a game that simulates the criminal offence of rape.

"To know that this is widely available through a major online retailer is utterly shocking. I do not see how this can be allowed.

"I will be raising this matter in Parliament and hope that action is taken to prevent the game from being sold."

I knew that “Hentai”, which a form of Japanese animation and comic-style art, has a serious pornographic aspect that is very widespread across the internet ; IU had no idea that full-on rape simulators were in existence, let alone available as a line of games. But this?

I’m not at all surprised that there are video games that now are about nothing but sex, after all, look at the filth of Grand Theft Auto, and that has not only been around for quite some time, but is readily available at regular retail outlets across the country. But, actual rape games?

Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m in no way saying that it would any more acceptable, but this stuff isn’t even in the just heavily “implied and not really shown” category of garbage – this is complete total, promoted, extensive abusive of women and girls in a video game setting.

According to the bits of review I did read (and how someone could bring themselves to “play” this game at all I don’t know), the article from SkyNews is a pretty timid portrait of what actually takes place within this game.

• The game monitors and tracks each assault, and the number of times the player ejaculates, and encourages the gamer to assault the girls as many times and in as many different ways as possible in order to train them to be sex slaves for use even worse ways.

• The girl being raped by the player will become “more pregnant” with each assault until the baby is born, at which point the video game player will be killed for not having aborted the baby before it could be born.

• Players can cut, paste, assemble, and record their own rape videos that they “write and direct”.

• The main targets of the game are a mother and her two daughters. The youngest (who is not even a teen as the article suggested) gets raped in a child’s room on a bed full of teddy bears, and the player gets to see the child visibly crying as she’s being raped.

Some folks upon hearing this will of course try to brush it off with “That’s Japan, not here.” Which is of course bunk, the company who is making and promoting this particular video game title may be Japanese, but this sickening spirit of evil is openly embraced by billions of people around the world. Welcome to the modern world, one that would have sent Philip K. Dick scampering for a place to hide.

peace/faith/hope/love

serloren

For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. - Revelation 19:2