OpEdNews - Diary: UPDATE: Amazon has stopped sales of Rape Simulation Game

February 13, 2009 at 08:15:31 Permalink
UPDATE: Amazon has stopped sales of Rape Simulation Game - RAPEPLAY

Diary Entry by Amanda Lang (about the author)

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Rape is no game; it is an international war crime.

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UPDATE: Amazon.com has dropped its listing for a controversial Japanese video game called Rapelay that involves raping women and forcing them to have abortions. The so-called "rape simulator" game was sold on the web site and included a graphic description of the gameplay.

Although a listing for the product is available through online searches, the link to it on Amazon's web page no longer functions.

This outrage requires a massive 'viral' campaign against the corporate greed and profiteering behind this criminal exploitation of women. Is it any wonder we have Darfur? Please send this far and wide to all.

Flickr Photo by Ann Althouse

'Rape simulator', Rapelay, is set in Japan and carries a sickening game description on the Amazon website. Players begin the game by stalking a mother on a subway station before violently raping her. They then move on to attack her two daughters described as virgin schoolgirls.Players are also allowed to enter 'freeform mode' where they can rape any woman and get other male game characters to join the attacks.

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Amanda was a managing editor at OpEdNews and worked with Rob Kall on the site from 2004 to April 2009. A retired research ethnographer, she now resides in Georgia.

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