The Muncie Star Press offers up Editorial: Sex scenes in games should worry parents.
Clamping an adults-only rating on a sexually explicit video game is like eating half a chocolate cake but putting it aside in favor of a lettuce salad: clearly, the damage has been done. Hundreds of calories have been consumed from the cake and, in the case of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, millions of copies have been sold and are already available to kids.
Cake and lettuce salad? O.k., if you say so. But, inane analogies aside, I’m just a little floored by the priorities here. Worrying about sex in a Grand Theft Auto game is a little like worrying about worrying about foul language in a snuff film. (So much for leaving inane analogies aside.)
What’s the message here? It’s o.k. for little Jimmy to carjack ice cream trucks, beat cops, and gun down whores, but you just have to draw the line at cartoon sex? Our relative comfort with violence compared to our national hysteria over sex never ceases to amaze me.
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