I don't care if people want to wank to anime kids. It just makes me concerned about what else those people wank to, and what else they might be willing to do. There's the...

Shit. "There's the rub." Nevermind.

Is it Pedo, if the character your playing as in the game, is the same age as the girls?? Hmm...

Phoenix Gamma: I think you're the one being sensitive here. Again, nobody called for a ban on it. Stop being overly dramatic and whiny because someone said something about Japan. I've already made my stance perfectly clear -- I think it's creepy and this undercurrent of little girl fantasy in Japan is quite disturbing. If that makes me a "little girl," well put me in a dress and have a Japanese man feel me up.

SubOrbital: So, if there was a videogame where you could rape kids, would you not find that disturbing because "zomg GTA exists."? Your logic is completely fucked up and stinks of strawman.

Any wanking to drawings is weird to me already. Throw some children in the mix and you've bought yourself a one way ticket to Hell.

Is this worse than say... virtually KILLING somone? I do it all the time in video games (and BTW it's something I truly relish). I'm sure a lot of you share my lust for simulated violence. We take it for granted but when you think about it it's fucked up too. Can you imagine if someone who had never seen a video game saw you "tea-bagging" some guy you just shot in the face?

Does saying, "yeah but I'd never do it in real life" make it OK? I don't think it does. So, I can't really judge someone who gets off on this stuff.

I also can't really judge Japan as I live in a sexually repressed society that is obsessed with violence (America). Maybe that repression just manifests itself differently here. That is to so say sexual frustration leads to simulated violence.

And really, so many awesome, non-perverted things have come out of Japan. I do not care to count how many great games i've played that DON'T involve molesting kids. Let us not base our opinion of them solely on this kind of thing.

Also, cocks.

Fuck what everybody is talking about- that is a great episode of Father Ted you have posted. It is sad that the show had to end so quickly. Dermot Morgan was a very funny man who died too young.

Cheers!

To put it another way, I can kill someone in a video game, but I don't think I would ever be able to kill anyone in real life (barring any future post-apocalyptic nuclear holocaust-type scenarios). But if someone wanks to drawings of kids, whether you'd like to admit it or not, that's a lot closer to wanking to actual pictures of kids, and it's probably not even that far removed from actual, er, hands-on pedophilia.

The jump from one thing to the other is far less, for the latter.

Moral high horse.

I love how we all call BS on the banning of Manhunt 2, and champion free speech; but we suddenly turn into Bush's cabinet when there's an ero game with (I'm assuming) no simulated sex.
Of course, I do NOT want to be next to the creepy salaryman playing this on the train, but hell, I WILL respect his right to own it and play it.

SourGr8pes:

How many more times? NOBODY has called for it to be banned. I actually think Manhunt 2 is pretty creepy and shit as well, but I respect its right to exist. Same with this. It harms none, so it can do as it will, but seriously, that's not going to stop me judging someone who plays it. You're lying if you think you won't alter your opinion of someone who gets off on this shit.

There's really a more in depth discussion here about the general psychology of different cultures and societies. And this is absolutely NOT the place for it.

Lol innernets.

Now now people. Don't be so quick to throw down the judgemental hammer. These games are well known for their...

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just remember this, they have games where you can rape girls, even ones of young age, but on average you can count the number of rapes that go down throughout the entire country on one hand.

Now lets look at a country that has no rape games, which one is better?