Violence is completely uncensored in videogames... But love is??

[Voltekker]

America was found by puritans, and that can still be found in the core of our social regulations as it were. Also the MPAA is an unregulated bunch of old fucks that decide ratings. If you have a rated M for mature game that has realistic depictions of sex some senator from a red state is going to denounce it as the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.
"I beheld a pink horse, and on it rode a nipple!"
Personally I would love a more immersible experience, where the screen did not suddenly cut to black. Also let us not forget that video games must make money. Just because a game is rated M for mature does not mean that some snot nosed little punk will get his irresponsible parents to buy it for him just to shut him up.

This is an issue that I can go on at length, but I hope this was a bit helpful
-Peace and clitoris.

 

[L4hlborg]

In Rome, which was the biggest empire of its time, had violent gladiator shows at colosseums but I don't remember hearing of people making out for an audience or something like that. I'd say that Roman culture had a pretty large influence on modern day culture, it being the widest spread civilization back then.

Actually, Rome was, so I have read, pretty big on public orgies and homoeroticism. Women were generally suppressed, but the men were extremely open about their bodies, even going as far as to have men who were friends or coworkers having intercourse with each other.

Sorry, again I totally missed this. You could have read a bit further though, so you would have noticed that someone had already corrected this one. But yeah, my bad. I'd still say that the violence is what Rome will be remembered for more, so it kind of like took the spotlight. I guess. I've been wrong on this subject before, I'm not a historian, I'm a doctor. Actually I'm not a doctor either.

Lets just say that some dudes at some point of history have been more into blood than boobs and that is why it has influenced modern shit.

 

[TPiddy]

Part of it is that we are more easily and readily exposed to violence. The violence scale has gone up hundred fold in the past 50 years because that's what it takes to shock someone anymore. The bar has been raised impossibly high that we have become desensitized to even graphic depictions of violence.

Another part of the issue is that video games and other mediums can immediately show the downside to violence. Injury, death, loss are easily conveyed through the medium. While sex does have downsides, they're not properly conveyed through most mediums yet. Unwanted pregnancy, broken hearts, std's, etc. I mean, you could catch 9000 STD's in Fable 2 if you wanted with little to no consequence.

Also, given that a lot of gamers are teenager, that could cause some uncomfortable situations for them if they were aroused by video game sex and decided to take matters into their own hands.

 

[Eldarion]

Sex and love are not the same thing. Most of the time a sex scene just isn't appropriate and adds nothing to a game.

 

[Seventh Actuality]

This is just universal idiocy, not anything unique to video games. Look at movie classifications, book censorship, literally anything and it takes a phenomenal amount of violence to equal the (percieved) impact of a tiny amount of sex.

Shaun of the Dead is rated 15 in the UK, but if it was Simon Pegg getting his dong out instead of Dylan Moran having his intestines graphically ripped asunder by a horde of reanimated corpses, it would be an 18. Bwuh?

 

[migo]

Because whilst showing violence to younger children is dependant on context almost all children WILL be repelled or disturbed by sexual intercourse.

I hope you're being sarcastic. Nobody is repelled by sexual intercourse until they have puritan attitudes instilled in them.

 

[TylerC]

Yeah, it's weird, but Mafia II has magazines in-game with nude Playboy models from that time period.

Sex and love are not the same thing. Most of the time a sex scene just isn't appropriate and adds nothing to a game.

But gratuitous violence does?

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Nobody wants a boner while they're trying to play a game.

 

[ReaperzXIII]

I'm pretty sure drinking is what leads to the pregnancies 5 years back

Look we have enough trouble keeping the old fogies off our back with violence, why provoke more annoying rants with adding sex, I mean just a tiny bit of alien booty in Mass Effect sparked back quite a bit of controversy. Let's work on getting the approval of society of tearing off a man's arms and using it to beat his comrades to death before we get to sex

 

[run_forrest_run]

Weeell, it's for the same reason you won't see nudity on network TV but you will see violent scenes, I guess. As per social norms, violence is more acceptable than nudity when it comes to visual media. Personally I wouldn't like it if it did become common, I'm pretty sure nudity would be shoehorned and abused in tons of games.

It's pretty sad that an act that could potentially result in new life is less acceptable than the act of taking it.

You're probably right. Nudity isn't something that should be overused in games. On top of that, most games involve combat so there has to be some level of violence. Not many games involve banging people.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Because people are weird, sex is something almost everyone does, and we cannot talk about it, but killing a town worth of people in the most gruesome ways is something we will never do and would get you executed if you somehow did.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Let me just quickly point out that this is only the case in the US. For some strange reason I yet fail to grasp your general public has a very strange fascination with violence and a terribly disturbing fear of sexuality.

It's the Lutherian roots, laddie!

/Scotland

And besides, kids are used to violence by default. They'll kick and scrap and such without any outside interference. What they won't do, however, is have sex. That shit's just gross. Gives you cooties and such.

And, to be honest, I don't really want some poorly-executed (As they always will be), noisy sex scene breaking up my game. If I wanna watch porn I'll watch porn. I think Mass Effect has it right with the amount it shows.

 

[Something Amyss]

We don't want our children exposed to sex because we don't want them doing it. Ergo, we want our kids to kill people.

 

[Unesh52]

Does anyone remember indigo prophecy? Gawd controlling that sex scene was weird.. and hot.

Spoiler: You mean the bit where...

the main character has turned into a super saiyan zombie and the lady cop decides that the best course of action is to have unprotected sex not ten feet from a gathering of smelly hobo rebels in their smelly hobo disused subway station with the the guy she, until then, had been tracking down to capture/kill and that she knew nothing about except that he was a murderer and a corpse and that has just gotten her partner killed in the course of the fucked up alien/government-conspiracy/psychotic-episodes-of-said-protagonist bull shit?

That sex scene? Come to think of it, I think that may just have been what voided my innocence and made despise humanity at least until the penance that was Heavy Rain. Guess they were right -- sex in games does corrupt the youth, boy howdy!

 

[ninjaman 420]

No one masterbates to violence.

why would you want to maserbate to a load of pixels, after all thats what gaming is.[/quwel

No one masterbates to violence.

why would you want to maserbate to a load of pixels, after all thats what gaming is.

well how good is the resolution and how hot are the pixels in question?

 

[FightThePower]

It's pretty much the same with films though, isn't it? You won't see much more than some boobs, even if it's an 18.