Eclectic Dreck said:
I want to put this in perspective. I'm 28. I spent several years in the military deployed to Iraq. While I have managed to see a great deal of nudity in my life and even managed to have sex with a number of willing partners I have never killed anyone. Yet, somehow, brutal violence is perfectly acceptable while nudity and sex are not.
Is it not strange that nudity - literally the bodies natural state, is somehow less acceptable than murder? That the fundamental act of creation is distasteful while the act of destruction is acceptable? Why is it that people doing exactly what people are wired to do is somehow taboo?
I find that the US is far worse at this than most, if not all, other western countries. I mean, to me it seems that a lot of movies/games get a far higher age limit if they have nudity and/or sex, than just violence. Which is weird. As you said, how come showing something as natural as a naked person, as long as it fits with the rest of the game/film, is less acceptable than showing someone tearing someone's head from their shoulders in very graphic detail? It just makes no sense to me.
Fortunately, here in Norway, this is far more liberal, and our ratings board only refuses ratings, and thus makes it illegal to sell, in very extreme cases. And these are usually based on violence, not sexuality. To give an example, the french film Baise Moi is illegal to sell here, due to it's extremely graphic way of showing rape. Which is a good thing, I think. When it's just gratuitous like that, I have no problem with it being refused ratings.
OT: I have no problem with sex in games as long as there is a point to it. The Witcher games do this very well I think, because even though they are quite graphic, it feels natural to the rest of the game, and not forced in there for publicity.
