Won't someone please think of the prostitutes!

[Section_Ei8ht]

This is just funny.

Prostitutes call for ban on GTA

Sex workers cry foul, say game "accrues points to players for the depiction of rape and murder of prostitutes."

The Grand Theft Auto franchise is getting attacked from all angles. Joining the ranks of politicians, policemen, and attorneys in their crusade to see the game lifted from shelves are the nation's sex workers. On its Web site, the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA is asking parents to assist them in calling for a ban of Take-Two Interactive's controversial game.

Citing a 2001 document from the National Institute on Media and the Family's David Walsh, SWOP is calling "on all parents and all gamers to boycott Grand Theft Auto."

The organization quotes various points from Walsh's paper, including, "Children are more likely to imitate a character with whom they identify with. In violent video games the player is often required to take the point of view of the shooter or perpetrator."

Though the organization admits to being "adamantly opposed to any and all forms of censorship," as concerned parents themselves, they "wish to inform other parents of the potential danger extremely violent video games pose to children." Likewise, in the interest of promoting the rights of sex workers, the organization is opposed to the depiction of the rape and murder of prostitutes.

In the games, players can solicit "services" from prostitutes by driving their cars slowly near them. No sexual acts are in clear visible view, but during the "transaction," the player regains health and loses money. Though the player cannot actively rape prostitutes in the game, a possible rape is alluded to once during the storyline of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The prostitutes, like every other character, are also subject to homicide at the hands of the protagonist.

According to its Web site, SWOP USA is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of sex-industry workers and to the promotion of a safe working environment for the industry.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6144286.html

"And I suppose Jack Thompson will be the chief pimp running the prosecutions against the evil liberal commie game maker Rockstar, Hookers have rights too!" - madnuke

[Minos]

It seems that GTA is the most hated game in history

[Section_Ei8ht]

Looks like you're right there, mino. Take-Two has two more lawsuits coming its way...

http://pc.ign.com/articles/688/688983p1.html

seriously, why cant people just give it a rest? Hot Coffee doesnt exist anymore. Get over it.

[The Postman]

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF MY IRRESPONSIBLE PURCHASING OF A MATURE RATED GAME FOR MY 7 YEAR OLD?

idiots.

also, fuck prostitutes. er, not literally, you know what i mean.

[von*ferret]

For once I agree with postman.

[JynxDaddy]

Will pedestrians sue next

[PS_Mouse]

It seems that GTA is the most hated game in history

Custer's Revenge

[D3ads]

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF MY IRRESPONSIBLE PURCHASING OF A MATURE RATED GAME FOR MY 7 YEAR OLD?

idiots.

also, fuck prostitutes. er, not literally, you know what i mean.

Haha, indeed.

[Taylor Swift]

It's their own problem even if it's ingame it doesnt mean it happends in real life so i would take this away from the discussion.

Example violent games:

Kingpin : LIFE OF CRIME

GTA, GTA 2, GTA 3, gta3 episodes

Manhunt

Postal

Soldier of Fortune

[mike-0]

i seriously dont care about games anymore.

people who whine about them are fuckin pussies.