Sex workers cry foul, say game "accrues points to players for the depiction of rape and murder of prostitutes."
The Grand Theft Auto franchise is getting attacked from all angles. Joining the ranks of politicians, policemen, and attorneys in their crusade to see the game lifted from shelves are the nation's sex workers. On its Web site, the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA is asking parents to assist them in calling for a ban of Take-Two Interactive's controversial game.
Citing a 2001 d0cument from the National Institute on Media and the Family's David Walsh, SWOP is calling "on all parents and all gamers to boycott Grand Theft Auto."
The organization quotes various points from Walsh's paper, including, "Children are more likely to imitate a character with whom they identify with. In violent video games the player is often required to take the point of view of the shooter or perpetrator."
Though the organization admits to being "adamantly opposed to any and all forms of censorship," as concerned parents themselves, they "wish to inform other parents of the potential danger extremely violent video games pose to children." Likewise, in the interest of promoting the rights of sex workers, the organization is opposed to the depiction of the rape and murder of prostitutes.
In the games, players can solicit "services" from prostitutes by driving their cars slowly near them. No sexual acts are in clear visible view, but during the "transaction," the player regains health and loses money. Though the player cannot actively rape prostitutes in the game, a possible rape is alluded to once during the storyline of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The prostitutes, like every other character, are also subject to homicide at the hands of the protagonist.
According to its Web site, SWOP USA is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of sex-industry workers and to the promotion of a safe working environment for the industry. By Tim Surette -- GameSpot
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their argument is that kids would "relate" to a character whom they play, but that character CANNOT rape prostitutes, so that's pretty much a logical fallacy
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happening fish wrote:"a possible rape is alluded to once"
their argument is that kids would "relate" to a character whom they play, but that character CANNOT rape prostitutes, so that's pretty much a logical fallacy
False. If he can murder them, then he can murder all of them. But there are always more, and he can find more prostitutes that look exactly the same as the one that he just hit or shot. So clearly they aren't dying, they're just falling over and dropping their money and pretending to bleed and be dead.
Also once he gets the pimp car then he has missions where his goal is to save prostitutes from clients who are beating them.
Stupid whores.
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But my logical explanation! If he can murder everyone in the game then there would come a point where he is the only character left in the game but this never happens so clearly the other characters aren't being killed.
They probably just wake up outside the hospital in perfect health but without any weapons, just like he does when other people use weapons on him.
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faninor wrote:But my logical explanation! If he can murder everyone in the game then there would come a point where he is the only character left in the game but this never happens so clearly the other characters aren't being killed.
They probably just wake up outside the hospital in perfect health but without any weapons, just like he does when other people use weapons on him.
The ambulance does come and take them away...
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