Help Save 17 year-old Boys from Themselves
Many in Los Angeles celebrated the announcement that city attorney Rocky Delgadillo slapped the makers of “Grand Theft Auto” with a lawsuit. But finally, in a hilarious op-ed piece in the same newspaper, the voice of reason comes out:
The city believes that parents who simply wanted to buy their boys a wholesome cop-shooting, hooker-killing, car-stealing game were unfairly duped. Because if the ratings board had known about the scene, the game probably would have been bumped up to an “Adults Only” rating (restricting it to those 18 and over) instead of “Mature” (which keeps it away from anyone under 17).
That means that all across Los Angeles, innocent 17-year-old boys with advanced computer skills were being exposed to moderately rendered, computer-animated soft-core pornography. And City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo wants to make sure someone pays for doing this to our kids. Because if these teen computer geniuses are given the opportunity to unlock a video-game sex scene, then they’ll be just one step away from breaking the code that allows them to type dirty words into Google.
Although I wish a teenage boy’s world were as full of innocence and wonder as Delgadillo does, I wondered if consensual animated sex was really the kind of thing that would offend a 17-year-old male who grew up in Los Angeles. So I tracked one down and asked him if this was the kind of thing that would warp his impressionable mind.
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I think the funniest thing about all of this is that the minigame is about consensual sex and the goal is to please the woman. Because that’s a terrible kind of behavior we want to discourage, isn’t it? Meanwhile there are M-rated games out there with actual, non-hidden sex scenes in the shipping version like Mafia and God of War and no one seems all up on those games.
Still though, the fact remains that it’s far more work to find and install the mod than it is to find all the filthiest pornography the internet has to offer.
Posted by James on 02/01 at 07:17 PM
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