[As originally posted on Japanator]
While I was recouperating over the weekend, a fax was sent out to all the game makers from the EOCS, with details as to what some of the regulations are. Naturally, we turn to none other than our friends at Canned Dogs for more information on the whole thing.
Some of the main details include:
- "Training" and "slave" aren't allowed anymore.
- Rape, confinement, stalking, domestic violence, or anything that promotes a criminal offense is no-go.
- Hentai CG images cannot contain more than 20% of sexual violation.
- Hypnosis is OK
One of the interesting things in the wording about rape/confinement/etc is that it can't show the offenders in a positive light -- it gives me flashbacks to my class on Film Noir and talking about the Hayes Code, and the impact that had on the American film industry. Just a cross-cultural comparison I'm highlighting here.
Apparently pressure for regulations were aimed at retailers first, and then it finally worked its way up to the EOCS -- and already there had been regulations happening in the AV world, with rape and loli-like live action stuff being put on hold after the summer of 2008.
This is a huge problem for some people, like one company that had a project 90% done, only to find out that it's no-good under these regulations. Some of the reactions that Canned Dogs collected, as well as the ones in the comments, are really worth reading.
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9:00 PM on 06.08.2009
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I really hope there is a chart that explains this.
So, why isn't guro banned? That's gore and porn in one?
It means that they can only put the head in.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html
Just the tip!
I wonder if they'll round up or down.
Man, I'm really failing in the proofreading department today. :(
so a visual novel, that are clearly artworks and pics, can't have things with rape or too much sex but Americans, mind you the ones who even brought this situation up in the first place, can get away with making legal porno vids and movies concerning rape...which are done on screen mind you?
The world continues to fuck up.
I think what this means is no more than 20% of CG sets can have acts of "sexual violation". So if you do it carefully you can have a game with rape in it, but not a game about rape. That is the only way it makes sense to me.
It looks like this will turn out much like other regulations. The rules are made to keep the activist watchdogs at bay, but made lenient enough to not really change a lot.
And to clarify, 20% refers to the amount of pictures (as these games are want to have) that can have pronographic content in them.
So, no shaft, just tip / couple inches of tentacle? Understood? :o
Relevant to my interests.
But anyway, if an evil man is raping a woman in a hentai or a hentai game, does that make it okay because he's evil and that's what evil men do? Let's use PETA's logic.
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