RapeLay

[Winnow]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... tml?hpt=C2

Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "Can I help you with something?"

That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.

With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.

As you continue to play, "friends" join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.

The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.

When does a video game go too far?

It is little wonder that the game, titled RapeLay, sparked international outrage from women's groups. Taina Bien-Aime helped yank the game off store shelves worldwide.

"This was a game that had absolutely no place on the market," said Taina Bien-Aime of women's rights organization Equality Now which has campaigned for the game to be taken off the shelves.

But the controversy that led to stopping sales of the game instead took it viral.

That was how Lucy Kibble and Jim Gardner in Britain heard about it.

"I think the idea that you can do it by wholesale banning is just never going to work anyway because we downloaded it for free off the Internet," Gardner said.

In the case of RapeLay, he was right. It is still readily available on dozens of Web sites, sometimes for free.

What happened to RapeLay is an example, said Bien-Aime, of why Japan needs to police game makers.

"It's obviously very difficult to curtail activity on the Internet. But the governments do have a role in trying to regulate this sort of extreme pornography of children, both in their countries, and through the Internet ," she said, adding that they were calling for the Japanese government "to ban all games that promote and simulate sexual violence, sexual torture, stalking and rape against women and girls. And there are plenty of games like that. "

Those games are known as "hentai games." Almost all feature girlish-looking characters. Some of the games are violent -- depicting rape, torture and bondage in detail.

Step into a game shop in Akihabara, Japan's electronics district, and hentai games are readily available. In minutes, we found a game similar to RapeLay. The object here is also revenge: Find and rape the woman who fired the player from his imaginary job. Along the way, the player can rape a number of other girls and women.

Hentai games are not new to Japan. This country has long produced products the rest of the world would call pornographic. But before the arrival of the Internet, such items stayed in Japan. Now, once a game goes on sale in Tokyo, it is digitized and shared everywhere.

Japan does have censorship laws for sexual content. In games and videos, genitalia are obscured, even if it is animated. But Japan's laws do not restrict the themes and ideas of the games.

A national law that would make possession of real and virtual images of child porn illegal is under discussion, but no serious legislation has moved forward in Japan's parliament.

CNN contacted the Gender Equality Promotion Division in the Gender Equality Bureau of Japan's Cabinet Office, which is charged with handling the hentai gaming issue.

Despite repeated calls over a period of weeks, no representative from the government office would comment to CNN on camera. The office refused to make a statement on paper. A spokeswoman would only say over the telephone that the Japanese government was aware that the games were a problem and it was checking to see if self-policing by the gaming industry was enough.

A member of the Institute of Contents Culture, who did not want to give CNN his name, said restricting game themes limits freedom of expression.

"In my opinion, RapeLay's storyline went too far. However, if a game creator wants to express something and create content out of it, a government or public entity shouldn't have the power to restrain it."

Lucy Kibble and Jim Gardner, the gamers in Britain, said trying to control games on the Internet was futile and that content control was up to parents.

"The idea of banning it, or telling people what they can and can't do just because on the off chance some kid might get involved with it is just ridiculous," said Gardner.

What!? No tentacles!?

[Canelek]

That is pretty disturbing.

[Animalor]

While I agree that Rapelay is all sorts of fucked up and not the type of entertainment I would consume, did it really require worldwide attention into what is mainly a sub-culture of a sub-culture of the traditionally fucked up Japanese erotic industry?

As if the janapese needed more reasons to hate the outside/rest of the world.

[Xouqoa]

This is also like the third time it has been on CNN, I think. Oh, the humanity. You can do depraved things in a video game made by the Japanese. Go figure.

I would be curious to see what the achievements for this game would be like on Steam/Live, though.

[Bubba Grizz]

Soooooo Winnow? How are the graphics in this game?

[Winnow]

Soooooo Winnow? How are the graphics in this game?

Too mainstream for me to check out!

[Canelek]

Japan will be ground zero for the zombie war, I am quite certain. Oh sure, you say China. You are partially correct--China will be where the infection gains momentum, and spreads to India--but it truly will begin in Japan. Kyoto, to be precise.

[Funkmasterr]

Japan will be ground zero for the zombie war, I am quite certain. Oh sure, you say China. You are partially correct--China will be where the infection gains momentum, and spreads to India--but it truly will begin in Japan. Kyoto, to be precise.

Shit, I better go see the bamboo forest in Kyoto this summer while I'm there then before it's desecrated.

[Canelek]

You had better!

I also hear that there is a bar called Kyoto Jail where you can pay to have hot women beat you.

They have beer as well.

[Winnow]

Shit, I better go see the bamboo forest in Kyoto this summer while I'm there then before it's desecrated.

Funk, before you go, I need to talk to you about getting a few things back from Japan through customs. Thanks!

[Canelek]

I am wrong.

It is Osaka, and Osaka Jail, respectively.

Kyoto may remain untouched for a few extra days.

[Funkmasterr]

Shit, I better go see the bamboo forest in Kyoto this summer while I'm there then before it's desecrated.

Funk, before you go, I need to talk to you about getting a few things back from Japan through customs. Thanks!

That sounds like trouble! Gonna be there July 15th->August 8th

[Winnow]

Funk, before you go, I need to talk to you about getting a few things back from Japan through past customs. Thanks!

That sounds like trouble! Gonna be there July 15th->August 8th

nah, no trouble at all!

[Dregor Thule]

Isn't this game like 4 years old? Way to be current CNN.

[Winnow]

Japan has it's strange ways, but Euros still take the cake for tolerance of sexual abuses:

“Sleepwalking” Man Innocent of Raping 4-Year-Old Daughter

* Date: Apr 2, 2010 05:53 JST

A father who raped his 4-year-old daughter has been let off after courts accepted his excuse that he was sleepwalking.

The father, a 30-year-old resident of Belgium, returned home after drinking with friends, going to sleep in the same room as his 4-year-old daughter.

He was alleged to have raped the girl after she woke him up to go to the toilet.

The man admits raping his daughter, but says he was asleep:

“This is a sexual version of sleepwalking. I was deeply ashamed when I found out what was happening.”

He claimed he only awoke when his daughter began screaming: “Papa it’s me. It’s me.”

His defence claims he suffered from a rare condition called “sexsomnia,” in which a person engages in sexual behaviour whilst sleepwalking.

The defence argued for absolving him of all responsibility for the incident:

“My client has had sleep problems for a long time. When he was living with the girl’s mother he often had sex with her in his sleep.

He could not remember what happened with his daughter the next day. He is deeply sorry. But he could do nothing about it. He was powerless.”

Police agreed:

“You have people who talk or walk in their sleep. You have others who eat cakes and take things from the fridge. And you have a few who want to have sex.”

The court opted to give him the benefit of the doubt and ruled he could not be charged. The prosecution intends to appeal the ruling.

The girl’s mother is aghast:

“This verdict gives a green light to all rapists and paedophiles to escape the law”

The ruling was widely condemned as “the summit of perversity,” with the Belgian public being especially sensitive to paedophilia scandals after a huge child sex slave scandal in recent years.

However, since being classified in 1996 a number of men accused of rape have successfully mounted a “sexsomnia” defence – “Your honour, I was sleep-raping” may yet become a common defence in such cases.

[Hesten]

Japan has it's strange ways, but Euros still take the cake for tolerance of sexual abuses:

“Sleepwalking” Man Innocent of Raping 4-Year-Old Daughter

* Date: Apr 2, 2010 05:53 JST

A father who raped his 4-year-old daughter has been let off after courts accepted his excuse that he was sleepwalking.

The father, a 30-year-old resident of Belgium, returned home after drinking with friends, going to sleep in the same room as his 4-year-old daughter.

He was alleged to have raped the girl after she woke him up to go to the toilet.

The man admits raping his daughter, but says he was asleep:

“This is a sexual version of sleepwalking. I was deeply ashamed when I found out what was happening.”

He claimed he only awoke when his daughter began screaming: “Papa it’s me. It’s me.”

His defence claims he suffered from a rare condition called “sexsomnia,” in which a person engages in sexual behaviour whilst sleepwalking.

The defence argued for absolving him of all responsibility for the incident:

“My client has had sleep problems for a long time. When he was living with the girl’s mother he often had sex with her in his sleep.

He could not remember what happened with his daughter the next day. He is deeply sorry. But he could do nothing about it. He was powerless.”

Police agreed:

“You have people who talk or walk in their sleep. You have others who eat cakes and take things from the fridge. And you have a few who want to have sex.”

The court opted to give him the benefit of the doubt and ruled he could not be charged. The prosecution intends to appeal the ruling.

The girl’s mother is aghast:

“This verdict gives a green light to all rapists and paedophiles to escape the law”

The ruling was widely condemned as “the summit of perversity,” with the Belgian public being especially sensitive to paedophilia scandals after a huge child sex slave scandal in recent years.

However, since being classified in 1996 a number of men accused of rape have successfully mounted a “sexsomnia” defence – “Your honour, I was sleep-raping” may yet become a common defence in such cases.

Wow, thats pretty fucked up.

[Kwonryu DragonFist]

Soooooo Winnow? How are the graphics in this game?

Too mainstream for me to check out!

Try this instead

http://www.bonetown.com/

[Winnow]

Soooooo Winnow? How are the graphics in this game?

Too mainstream for me to check out!

Try this instead

http://www.bonetown.com/

wtf?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfBbfAiBaVQ

hehe

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

The Germans beat all for absolute depravity.