Another view i have seen is that people who want to shoot people, will shoot people, with or without a videogame, but the videogame may stave off the act, maybe they get the same enjoyment out of the videogame as they would real people, then the game becomes almost theraputic for them in a sense. I believe this can be true with these weird japanese sex games.

As wrong as it is to enjoy “No Russian”, or this rape game, if someone is getting a thrill out of this, that would otherwise take this fantasy into the real world, i say let them, in the least it gives someone another “warning sign”, it would be better to find a copy of this in your friends collection so you know hes a nut, as opposed to them going out and doing it.

That said, Japan tends to make some pretty fucked up games, not from their mainstream developers of course, but these tiny places that make Hentai games, this stuff wouldnt fly from an american company, id assume their building would be on fire shortly after release.

In the article, I also mention how Japan has some of the lowest crime rates and many believe it’s attributed to their freedom of “sexual expression” however, it isn’t just about the influence it could have over people. It’s only human to feel disgusted when you’re watching yourself rape a 13-14 year-old girl. I know this may be a controversial statement, but I hardly see a difference in acting on this atrocity or highly enjoying yourself committing statutory rape in third-person. I don’t think either is sane.

It’s also extremely hard to speak for others, particularly victims of sexual assault who may feel heavily offended by Illusion Soft’s nonchalant approach toward something that has been proven as psychologically damaging. This game also has very much value today as many women are harassed and fondled on their way to work and school and many of these victims are very young and scared. They don’t know what to do and they don’t respond accordingly to protect themselves. “What happened with Rapelay is our fear and a really stupid one” That is a very bold statement, but I don’t think fear is always blindly stupid. Rapelay takes a very disconcerting and disturbing approach toward the “adult genre.” Surely, society can find a better way to satisfy or “express” their strange carnal desires.

Violent games and rape games are on two complete ends of the spectrum. Violent games have a plausible, identifiable objective to complete that requires you to eliminate wrong doers with a last resort consequence of lethal action. Rape games have no morally good or credible reasoning why someone has to rape someone else.

“Let people act out their fantasies no matter how weird or violent it might be to you.”

Rape isn’t a fantasy. People have sexual fantasies that are usually comprised of someone sexually pleasing another person who happens to like it — that’s not rape. I bet no one has ever had a fantasy of harming someone else for the pleasure of their own desires. And if you do, that’s what they call a psychopath. Look up the definition of one.

“In the end games are a form of expression.”

Rape is not. What if I came up to you, and beyond all your pleas, I ignored whatever you liked, and took you and raped you. I gave you a baby, forcing you to choose between having a child — created by the monstrosity of rape — or abort it — a resort to killing the blessing of life — giving you two options of misery you will have to deal with your action for the rest of your life. And then I just go, “Oh, I did that to you because I was sexualy expressive.” Yeah, you’d sure give me a high-five.

Think about it.

In our country the adult genre is slowly declining and I think that’s a real shame. There needs to be a market for mature gamers and of course not all of them will feature consenting relationships. What happened with Rapelay is our fear and a really stupid one, what could happen anyway? If violent games don’t make people violent then rape simulators don’t make people rapists. Let people act out their fantasies no matter how weird or violent it might be to you. In the end games are a form of expression. In this case not exactly the best kind of expression but still expression.