Sadly manastell88, as most countries ignore the UN, Japan is one of the few states easily influenced by forgein powers. For the most part this was a forgein push after hearing about this game in America that didn't originate in Japan. Then Agnes got involved, and even though she comes from china the very place that hates human rights with a passion. She brought around the legislation and the ban push. This is all for naught at the moment since they're mainly focused on elections at the moment, but it's when they finish that the real problems come up.

get your eroge now while you still can! ...=/

This news can only mean that The Committee of Elimination of Discrimination against Women has obviously already won the fight against honour killings and the taliban. We should be proud.

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oh, and female genital mutilation ...=/

As I have said If you give an inch they will take a mile. If you dont stand up and try to stop this crap how long until they come for your "killer Games". You might not agree with the Medium but Im sure most of you would agree you cannot trust your government They are human fallible and most of all trying to get re-elected.

Now whats worse then our politicians are the ones we cannot elect and that can have greater power then our own. We should not just wait and see if you want to prevent the UN specifically their branch CEDAW please take the time to read this letter print it off sign it mail it in.

sex games will never be banned in japan. there are TONS of them. go into a gaming store and there is usually an entire floor dedicated to hentai games. go into a book store and there is usually an entire floor dedicated to hentai manga. they loves them some sex.

who gets the job of testing out all of those sex games looking for rape?

What does the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Tentacles say about this?

everyone has already stated my opinion on this matter so all i have to say is:
YEAH! WTF AND SUCH!

the title of the post is misleading - it's not at all banning japanese sex games, but a particularly disgusting sub section of sex games.

Part of me thinks this kind of thing should be banned because it seems more likely to lead to acts of real violence than FPSes, but all it takes is one thing to open the floodgates of censorship.

ok i see where these fuckless bastards are taking this. by no way am i a fan of rapegames but, they might as well put porn on the list
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cmon............
u know u want to...........
cmon little bastard.......

Chairman Obama is currently accepting applications for Electronic Gaming czar. He doesn't want to ban your games, that would be Un-American. He just wants to make certain that all content is progressive and takes into account global considerations, thereby moving the country away from it's archaic feelings of nationalistic pride. Modern Warfare will now include the Islamic freedom fighter mode.

"the sale of video games or cartoons involving rape and sexual violence against women which normalize and promote sexual violence against women and girls."

6 seconds later, the animators edit the hair styles, and suddenly every sex game features "sexual violence" against men and boys. Suddenly the reason for the androgynous aesthetics of japanese characters is clear :|

This title is very misleading, its banning rape games. Anyone who thinks that the committee responsible for this push isnt working to fix the "real" issues is either delusional or is really into rape games. The committee is constantly pushing the U.N. to take action to prevent honor killings, forced prostitution and the myriad of other problems that women around the world have to deal with.

Just ban all violent movies, music, games, porn, magasines, newspapers (want to report about a rape case? request denied), also ban all disturbing news, censor internet (turn it into a cable tv sort of service, only a limited number of sites available), ban books (because you can cut yourself on the paper), ban sex because of STD's...
Once you begin, you realise that the opportunities are endless!

What happened to that black-and-white rape header? I miss it. :(

The U.N, possibly the most useless, mismanaged oraganisation on the planet.

Its time for Japan to stand up for itself. I can understand objections to whaling but this is ridiculous. The U.N or whoever is pushing them, have not done their homework enough on the subject. To them, its about womens right and whatever, when an educated gamer knows these games feature equality as far as gender goes.

What this about is more pressure to make everywhere on the planet the same. Japan have a unique culture, which has its own attitudes to these things. On top of it no one is being hurt, and these games are being consumed by a niche audience there anyway. Why the U.N etc should fear them is beyond me, since plenty of rape goes on in the western world without any help from these games.

Like I said, I don't agree with it, but I still think thy have a right to make them for their audience, if they choose to do so, that should be respected or just disagreed with. Come on, we all know, this is a U.S led campaign, with a U.N gimp mask on. Didn't see anyone else complaining, until they did, so scared of the evil sex they are.

Banning won't help anyone, as there are enough talented artists and programmers in japan to make these things as homebrew games, if needed.

mh if the sex games are RAPE games...thats okay....but anything else not. sadomaso is okay too....if u can choose male and female chars..

And before criticizing rape games that enact sexual violence against video game women, maybe they should first address the sexual violence that UN peacekeepers commit against real life women. Case in point: Congo, Burundi, Haiti, Liberia, etc.

I think the UN is doing an awful job on protecting real women and now they are worried about censoring pixels that glitch?

Banning anything is bad.
No one is getting hurt by these things. As I understand, these RapeLay games are popular in Japan, but you don't see a massive amount of rape cases that would indicate some corelation. Enjoying entertainment doesn't produce criminals. Millions of people watch action movies, but they don't go and shoot people on the street.
Imagine your government banning something you enjoy. What would you do?

The U.N.

Taking the front line in rape games


Never mind that Dafur nonsense

I guess they got tired of all those big issues they couldn't make an impact on so they decided to take on something they felt they stand a chance against.

Don't worry, once the UN discovers that they cannot blame Japanese rape games on the Jews, this will all go away.

@Paul Soth:
Tim Langdell will sue your ass for that comment. Quick! Hire them attornies!

So sad, one of the better mangas I've read (Bitter Virgin) uses rape as drama and is surprisingly tastefully done.

Come on, the United Nations. Come on.