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The Great White Bear of Sunflower Street
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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: Prostitutes: "Grand Theft Auto is Bad Influence" |
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After you're done wondering in awe, read:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6144286
| Quote: | Prostitutes call for ban on GTA
Sex workers organization says 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 play 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 can not 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 the promotion of a safe working environment for the industry.
By Tim Surette -- GameSpot |
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LiQuid!
fasta dan a muddafucka!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:38 am Post subject: |
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What a bunch of sluts.
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Q
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| speaking of sluts...what's up with ur new ava Liquid? |
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LiQuid!
fasta dan a muddafucka!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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It was the brilliant winner from this photoshop contest.
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MrKow
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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The complaints are definitely not new and basically unrealistic, but humorous anyways. "Let the prostitutes of the world unite!!" and all that....woot....personally, I preferred beating up the old ladies in the GTA series...I usually got bazookas from them.
It doesn't help at all that the types of men prostitutes cater to are potentially the very type who could be abusive in the first place...or the fact that sleeping with a stranger is potentially risky and to figure out only requires an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATION...yeah...  The issue started long before GTA ever came out.
For the record, I only kill cops in GTA when they shoot first...so it's their fault...or something. Besides...the government never runs out of cops and tanks...so what's the big deal? |
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Sethimothy
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: |
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A bunch of admitted sex workers get together, and no one arrests them, despite admitting they willingly participate in illegal activities.
Why are they petitioning for new laws when they won't even follow certian ones already in place? |
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Pandar
Overlord of the Netherworld
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, it -is- legal in Nevada, so they'd probably have some sort of union or something. I think there was one or two other states, but I don't quite remember which.
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timrpgland
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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GTA beats all  
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NR
The Great White Bear of Sunflower Street
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| timrpgland wrote: | | GTA beats all |
Especially whores.
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Owozifa
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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GTA beats horses!?
Great. Now PETA will be after them too.
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Q
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Owozifa wrote: | GTA beats horses!?
Great. Now PETA will be after them too. |
lol! |
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