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Originally Posted by Dia.

The whole concept of games like this, I'm not saying games shouldn't reference rape, as part of a story, but depicting it, or having the players engage in it is beyond a line that shouldn't be crossed

I was mulling this over earlier and wondering how to address it considering that I *don't* think depictions of sexual assault should be banned from games; mostly because I respect gaming as an on-par storytelling medium to books and movies and there are obvious reasons for telling those stories.

The solution I came up with, is that it should be treated like how Australia treats drugs when it comes to games classification. You can depict drug use in a game, you can have junkies etc., but you cannot depict drug use positively. i.e. if your character can take drugs it has to negatively affect them... and things like "Psycho" and "Jet" in Fallout aren't allowed, because it's drug use that enhances your characters abilities and thus can be seen to be glorifying drug use.

I feel like similar rules should apply to rape. Depictions of sexual assault should be allowed, but never as something that could ever be considered "positive" or an objective.


Also just to add to someone saying male rape wouldn't be allowed; there is actually an obscure side-mission in RDR2 where it is HEAVILY implied that your character has been drugged and sexually assaulted. I believe there's a similar thing in one of the early Fallout games, also. So we do get some equality there .