A rape game...are you serious?

I cannot believe this game was even produced!

http://jezebel.com/5167381/us-ban-on-rape-simulation-game-not-likely

While I cannot believe this game was produced, it disturbs me more that there is a whole genre of video games in Japan around the molestation of women. Even though I’m not a woman myself, and I will never truly understand the fear of rape that women live with, I don’t think this game has any place in any society by reinforcing the allusion that rape is okay.

While we’ve never really brought it up in class, I think the morals that a video game preaches or enforces is just as important as the game play or graphics.
How can these producers sleep at night knowing that their video game is being sold to perverts that reinforces their user’s sleaziness? This blatant grab for money in a niche market is wrong on so many levels and I think should be frowned upon in the game industry. I’m not sure how someone in the industry would react to this game…but I hope it is similar to mine.

However, apparently this is a major part of Japanese culture according to the article. This is also disturbing, and I cannot imagine why it’s tolerable. It only brings up the bigger question about societies in general and…is creating a game that reinforces a part of society that is at least in my mind morally wrong okay? I’ll leave that for you to mull over.