I will link to it here when it becomes available. The perspective of a woman with experience in the genre will be very interesting. Leigh has already made mention of RapeLay at SVGL, said she’s going to play it and share her thoughts later on. She was profoundly affected by Kana: Little Sister, an “incest-themed sex game” – not the kind of thing you generally look to for stories that touch your heart. And what she has found there is not always what you’d expect. As she’s pointed out, her female-ness, rather than being a barrier in this usually misogynistic industry, has made it easier for her to explore this seedier side of interactive entertainment. Leigh is a writer of extraordinary talent and sensitivity she is also a woman, and a woman who has written pretty thoughtfully and extensively about her interest in hentai gaming. There are other perspectives, and the one I’m most interested in hearing is that of the wonderful Leigh Alexander over at Sexy Videogameland. Plenty of articles about how horrible RapeLay is, and how it reflects a new low for the human condition, have already been written. It’s only anomalous that it became available on as mainstream an outlet as Amazon Marketplace… an anomaly that was corrected literally within hours. RapeLay, which – not having played it – I can only assume is as cruel as the descriptions make it sound, is not anomalous in its content. This kind of thing is not that uncommon in Japanese pornography, particularly in hentai, where schoolgirls are frequently violated by demons, tentacles, and older men in doing a bit of research before writing this I discovered to my alarm that “tentacle rape” is actually an expansive subgenre of Japanese porn, as in it has its own section at the local porn movie palace in Akihabara. Look, let’s be honest: the Japanese, no offense to any reading this, are a people of peculiar tastes. Among healthy people, I wouldn’t think there’s anything arousing about watching others get sexually abused. Those occasions when it’s portrayed as something fun to watch or read about are limited to the most extreme of all “erotic” media, and of course the internet, where every kind of bizarre kink is but a Google away. ![]() I would hazard that 99% of sexual assaults that appear in other media are portrayed as bad things, whereas RapeLay presents it as an entertainment objective. This is one case, however, where interactivity changes the whole equation. And there are some people who are defending RapeLay, arguing that if games are to be recognized as an art form they need to be comfortable dealing with dangerous themes, and rape is often graphically depicted in movies, novels, even comic books – consider the nigh-unwatchable nine-minute rape scene in Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible, presented as a single horrifying, unbroken shot. I have long been a vocal opponent of the theory that interactivity automatically renders a piece of entertainment “worse” or “more desensitizing.” One need only watch Hostel or Captivity to recognize that cinematic torture porn is far, far more devastating than what even the most gruesome and violent game can possibly evoke. Naturally the governments and media who seized on the story either didn’t know this or didn’t care judging from some of the reports I’ve seen they think it’s available at Best Buy. As if that setup weren’t upsetting enough, both girls are underage – the younger daughter, according to one source, seems to be about ten years old.īefore we go any further I need to point out that RapeLay is not a product of the mainstream games industry, was never meant to be released outside of Japan, is not rated, can’t be acquired at retail or any major download site, and indeed is not particularly easy to find or purchase in the west. RapeLay is a hentai (hentai = anime porn) game your first job is to sexually assault a young mother alone in the Tokyo subway, and upon managing that, follow it up by similarly victimizing her two daughters.
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