Maybe I should have been BBQed over an open fireball, since that would apparently be more acceptable and humane than my being sexually abused and yet growing up to accept what happened and speak about it. I posted that horror story, which is a true story I might add, because I thought it was pretty terrible on multiple levels (the trivialization of the act, the completely BS way he said the PC enjoyed it, effectively taking away my choice to even have a voice in the situation) and yet here I am somewhat dumbfounded by some of the responses and the anger towards the incident, for reasons that seem weird to me as someone who was actually molested. Sure, inflicting third degree to lethal burns on a living sentient creature is considered totally A-Ok, but no one wants to admit that rape victims even exist? טּ_טּ I wonder if it's because we're so insensitive to violence as a culture. It almost seems wrong to me to suggest that burning someone alive and snuffing their lives out, is somehow less horrible and more acceptable than sexual assault or abuse. Even the old 60 Minutes episode interviewing some gamers and Gary Gygax, one of the interviewed folks notes the heroes has being against the bad guys who "rape, pillage, and plunder".īut then again, D&D also has demons, devils, torture, murder, and it seems perfectly acceptable to magically napalm strike goblins and burn them to death with fire, and the latter isn't even considered dubious by most folks on the boards. The half-orc for the longest time has been the quintessential rape-child race for about as long as memory serves, and let's not forget that it seems like lots of really not-nice things just love engaging in certain activities which have obvious results. It's not really something people want to talk about, and yet at the same time it's something that's kind of been in D&D for a long time. That said, when it comes to Role Playing Games my fun and immersion requires that the. I think the human condition is pretty terrible and people need to be prepared to take their defense into their own hands. Quote: So personally, I don't like the thought of rape, at all. I find it hard to imagine the situation where a PC would be raped because if losing, they would fight to the death - the enemy would be superstitious of the PCs strange powers, the NPC strong enough to fight a PC wouldn't be that sort of person in general anyway. While powerful villain NPCs, for my enjoyment, are usually of the AWESOME variety and don't commit those kinds of crimes, if I am describing the destruction of a city, the history of violence, a list of the acts committed by some NPCs, or anything else where rape is happening, I will give it a mention unless I know there is some personal reason with a player not to. That said, when it comes to Role Playing Games my fun and immersion requires that the topics at hand can not be white washed. So personally, I don't like the thought of rape, at all. Among children, a survey found 11% of boys and 4% of girls admitted to forcing someone else to have sex with them while in another survey among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that 'jackrolling', a term for gang rape, was fun. Nearly 7 percent of the 487 men surveyed said they had participated in a gang rape. A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in Gauteng province, more than 37 percent of men said they had raped a woman. More than 25% of South African men questioned in a survey admitted to raping someone of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person, according to a new study conducted by the Medical Research Council (MRC). This is from wiki about South Africa: One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by the Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency said they had been raped in the past year. That means that there are a lot of men who will do it. It is so common that some 1 in 3 or 4 women depending on who you ask is at least sexually assaulted at some point in her life and the average age is pretty young. If suggestive themes or sex were rated alone, my games would be E for everyone because like a lot of people, I see less wrong with killing an innocent person than raping them, and frankly, people usually just don't want to hear about rape on their game night, nor do I want to hear about some gamer's sexual fantasy, even if benign. You know, I generally run PG 13 games, or rated R for violence and language.
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