Is Perverted VR Worse Than Digital Violence?

The virtual boob squeezing was creepy, but is it as outrageous as shooting someone in the head in Hitman?

[Eonjay]

No. Its simply the safest sex there is. And we already know that digital violence doesn't manifest itself into real violence so this is utterly lame. If your premise about violence is unproven, you can't use it as an argument supporting contradictions to 'perverted' VR

[cleft5]

Right. The sad thing is you have these people behaving like this stuff is worse than the real violence. All it does is devalue real world events. Then you have this ridiculous notion that people are encouraged to commit real violence, sexual, physical, or both from digital content is nothing short of heinous. This is just the outdated argument that music, comics, and movies as well as other forms media lead to actual violence in the real world. It's sad to see that no matter how much things change these ignorant attitudes remain the same.

[RufustheKing]

It sad to say there are people who get off on beating people up and rapeing them or looking at child porn. Whats good about vr porn, cgi porn is that these same weirdos can get there rocks off on the fake stuff rather than go out into the real world and try it. The emmergence of this tech is good over all. The biggest sex organ is the brain so more to this wave of tech. Remember the Japanese kid and the vr doll? If that type of thing keeps the urges in check the more the better. To many weak minded people fear this for no other reason than to make themselves feel good.

[Lamboomington]

"If your premise about violence is unproven, you can't use it as an argument supporting contradictions to 'perverted'

Well, it depends. IF 'perverted' is talking about anything related or leaning toward sexual harassment or violence, then they have a point. Rape in general is more distasteful and creepy than just violence - especially the idea of it. This is 100% true when talking about depictions of the same. Violence ,in most cases, means quick inconsequential deaths, unlike rape, which shows suffering and sadism. Shooting someone in the head in Hitman is hardly ever disturbing. The game doesn't focus on that aspect. Whereas a game like Manhunt is the opposite - it's very disturbing, and that of-course serves a purpose. The vast majority of games are more like Hitman than they are like Manhunt.

If a game comes out with a sexual harassment aspect, especially in VR, that immediately becomes disturbing. Take it up to sexual violence and even rape - then it's magnitudes more disturbing than the vast majority of 'violent' games out there.

Basically what I'm saying is they don't need to prove that violence in video-games causes real life violence to say that 'perverted VR' is creepy or disturbing in itself. The depiction might just be disturbing. Groping a girl character in VR, while the character constantly tells you to stop... I find that distasteful, and even a little disturbing perhaps.

I don't find killing people in Hitman disturbing (but that's not because of some double standard. It's simply because Hitman, like most games is not designed that way)

[TheCommentator]

The torture scene in GTA V is one instance of sadistic violence. Other offensive examples of violence exist, like the murder of innocent people in the airport in COD, which are more extreme as well. Like anything else though, these things have a right to exist and for people to choose whether or not to support said game with a purchase.

About the sexual assault, there were people in another thread who clarified a lot about things. Most notably, I was informed that the inflection of the statements made by the girls changes the plain context of the words and their meanings. As it was explained to me the girls are being coy, which represents a flirtatious attitude towards the gamer and not a "no, don't touch me" sort of thing. It's entirely posssible that it's just a cultural misperception that simply gets lost in translation.

Honestly, I don't know much about Japanese language or culture but the theory presented to me, which I shared with you today, is certainly a plausable explanation of the game's odd behavior.

[Eonjay]

No distinction was made on the part of violence so in this case I use perverted to mean any type of adult sexual material. Just to clarify.

[ChristopherJack]

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[annoyedgamer]

lol. These SJWs are worse than Christian preachy types. They were told off but yet we have to tolerate this BS?

[CoLD FiRE]

No. You should be able to do ANYTHING (no exceptions) when it comes to things that aren't real.

[FreeSpeech69]

Sjw: I'm 100% ok with killing some male hobo in GTA but GRABBING A DIGITAL BOOB? That's Super Rape! BAN IT BAN IT BAN IT!

[FreeSpeech69]

Neither is a problem. actual violence and actual sexual assault is a problem. Whaa whaa whaa polygons! Fucking sjw bs.

[SilentOption]

Woohoo! Another site with Malware! Check your sources N4G!

[Kubark]

I'm getting that too. It's happening every time I click on a link, so it's not the source that's the issue.

[SilentOption]

I've clicked on MANY links from them in the past month and no malicious pop ups like that happened, but this one link pop up malicious.

[Cy]

Neither one is "worse" because neither one is bad. It's fantasy. It's fiction. It's *not real*.

[Scatpants]

Perverted VR is awesome.

[Kreisen]

Dont touch my hentai bro!

[slappy508]

It's only a problem if your parents catch you with your headset on and your hands down your pants

[Crakface]

Yesterday this site runs a story. about how sexy a male character is in final fantasy, alluding to him being naked in the game. Today squeezing virtual titties is worse then violence?

Is this site run by homosexuals or what.

[Eonjay]

The guy wasn't naked. We were fawning over is ass just the same. The point brought up by the article is that you can objectify men without consequences but you aren't allowed to do that to women... and while we are sensitive to the concerns of others we understand that social justice isn't what we should be calling the new internet breed of feminism. So, we respect their right to free speech and expression while challenging them with facts and reality.

[Goldby]

Even if it was it wouldnt matter. This is a gaming site. Not an LGBT site. Beyong popular beliefs theres people who are a part of the LGBT who act like everyone else and just want to talk about gaming.

[NapalmSanctuary]

Reported attack page according to my browser.

[GrmpyolGamer]

SJW bull crap. Weh weh video games r violent, weh weh video games have boobs. Go and be a precious snowflake somewhere else and stay out of the gaming media. Smdh

[ChristopherJack]

People just need to accept that consensual sexualization in general is not taboo.

The more people repress harmless basic instinctive urges, the more aggressive tendencies they develop.

That said, legalize prostitution, tax it, & regulate it. Society has literally nothing to gain from criminalizing it other than satisfying the faux morals of the ignorant.

[captainexplosion]

I really want VR porn on PS VR. Does anyone know if it will be available on PS4?

[Pooker100]

Who cares? If your not going to play it, than why worry about those that do?

[2cents]

To answer the question posed at the end of the piece.

As Goodfellas so eloquently put...
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Gangsta"

...not a sexual predator.

Good day.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

neither is an issue, tbh. people who complain about this stuff have way too much free time on their hands. get a real job and focus on your own life. then you'll realize there are more important things to worry about. i'd much rather worry about paying off my car than a digital boob or gore in a videogame.

and so what if my kid sees and boob or violence in a game? tell them it's not real and it's not ok to do that s#!t in real life. problem solved. it's the reason we have ratings on games. if the s#!tty parents don't want to monitor them, whose fault is that? if you're so concerned with how "bad" games are, treat them as you would porn. i mean, you wouldn't let your kids just watch porn if they're not of age.