The D.I.Y Rape

Just as one was beginning to think that Japan had progressed from the Shogun era attitudes towards women, on cue: RapeLay. Released on April 21 2006 in Japan, RapeLay is a visually simulated computer game that makes it possible to stalk and rape Yuko and her two daughters Manaka and Aoi from the comfort of your room.
The story goes: you find a girl at the train station, fondle her publicly in the train and take her to the bathroom where you are free to do with her what you will. The next day you do the same with her mother but take her to the park where you publically force her to have sex with you and then do the same with her other daughter. You make them all your sex slaves where they are at your every command with baited breath. Points are awarded for violence, abuse and pretty much anything that makes the women suffer. Along with this you have the choice between sex positions such as reverse cowgirl, blowjobs and threesomes. Gory details include bloody penis and vagina, tears, violent screams and bonus points for forcing the women to get abortions. The option of internal ejaculation adds suspense to the pregnancy front of the game, but your semen landing place is once again, anywhere you please.
With different modes of playing, you can introduce different aspects to the game. For example five players or “5P” mode where you are restricted to one sexual position but share the rape of a girl with three other men. “Shippo” mode is where three or more girls can be forced to fulfil your fantasies at the same time.
While this game raised much controversy and had the US right campaigners up in arms, such complaints will go unheard because what this game is promoting is completely legal in Japan. A spokeswoman for the Japanese government's gender equality bureau said the office "realises the problem is there" and it is working out what can actually be done about it. Of cause we presume this will be done without offending any man in charge and without forcing him to give up his school girl porn.
However, despite this game being an outrage to the status of women in their society and simply being the way I finally lost all faith in humanity, I have to wonder that if murder is considered a higher crime than rape, or even on the same level, then how are so many computer games that encourage the killing of “enemies” deemed ok? We can’t have double standards and yet it seems impossible to remove all the sex and violence from every computer game that is selling and is selling well. A classic case of catch 22. Which leaves the public (me and you) in a position to be filtering systems of what we see and hear, what we watch and play.