Sex Slave Training Video Game For Sale Under New Euphemism

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-08-05 12:00:00 UTC
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Earlier this year, women's rights blogger Jen brought you a great story about Amazon.com's refusal to sell the Japanese video game Rapelay, where the main character/player is a stalker and rapist.  That company is still selling rape games, plus games focused on "sexual slave training."  To skirt regulations, however, they've just given the games new, more euphemistic names.

The website BGamebox which sells these games via download to home computer has recently "removed" the offending categories, but in a Craigslistesque move is just going to rename them.  The "ryoujoku" (rape) category has been renamed the "Platinum" category and the and "choukyou" (sexual slave training) category is now the "Thoroughbred" category.  They're also renaming individual games.  For example, "Gang Raped by the Entire Village: Girls Covered in Milky Liquid has become the slightly-tamer sounding The Trap Set by the Entire Village: Bodies Covered in Milky Liquid. Wow, that new title leaves me totally wondering what on Earth that liquid could be!  The content of the games, remains the same.

The fact that these video games, which train players (often young men) how to rape and abuse women and train them as sex slaves, are for sale is bad enough.  But these new cleaned up titles mean than now they might be stumbled upon by someone looking for a much less nefarious game.  A kid looking for a video game about horses now has a chance of finding one about training women to be sex slaves!  How could this possibly be considered an improvement?  All this change is doing is marketing exploitative, x-rated video games to unsuspecting audiences.

I did a quick search on Amazon.com for video games and "thoroughbred" and "platinum", and found nothing but games about horses and war, so it looks like Amazon.com is still seeing though the ruse.   But the thought of video games that encourage rape and trafficking of women and girls are available to teen boys online is a disturbing one.

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Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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