#RAPELAY JAPANESE GAME SIMULATOR#
In 2009, Equality Now, an organization based in New York, started a campaign “against rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence in Japan.” In the same year, Japan’s Ethics Organization of Computer Software, a game-maker trade group, decided to stop making games in the rape genre. According to Kotaku, Rapelay was released in 2006, is out of print, and never was nor will be released in America. In addition to playing on fear and misunderstanding, the CNN report was late, and not really in tune with on-the-ground reality in Japan, where rape simulators are the target of an increasing number of social and legal sanctions.
“Now remember, and this is something I think that we all need to understand: Rape is a crime of violence. I didn’t know this - maybe you didn’t know it or maybe you did - but rape - rape! - has now become a video game. We warn you now that some of what you’re about to see in this report is pretty disturbing, but it’s probably something that as parents or grandparents or uncles or aunts, we should probably all see. “Because if you haven’t, I’m going to give you right now a reason to put that on your to-do list.
“Did you ever look over your kid’s shoulder, or maybe somebody else’s kid’s shoulder, while they were on the computer, just to be sure that he’s not on some website that he really shouldn’t be on? Or maybe playing some kind of video game that he shouldn’t be playing on? I know it’s hard for some of us as adults, because it’s not our world, it’s their world, but boy, I tell ya, we should be mindful.
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