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RapeLay Resurfaces on CNN

By pete_gallagher

RapeLay, the difficult-to-defend game that's a favorite target of politicians, is the focus of a CNN story which attempts to paint a picture of the game's rising viral popularity.

While a voiceover says, 'the game infuriates women's rights groups,' the video cuts to Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director of Equality Now. She states, 'These sort of games that normalize extreme sexual violence in women and girls really have no place in our communities'

Bien-Aime later adds:

What we are calling for though, is that the Japanese government ban all games that promote and simulate sexual violence, sexual torture, stalking and rape against women and girls, and there are plenty of games like that.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).

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