Christians and Porn Advocates unite against Aussie 'R' rating

Euphoric | April 09, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3 Misc

Porn advocate group, Eros, and the Australian Christian Lobby group have united in a stand against proposed creation of an R 18+ rating for Australian games. They say that while real sex has been bypassing guidelines into films through loopholes, such happenings for games could have a devastating effect. The interaction that games provide to gamers is the cause for this stir.

IN a rare partnership, a Christian lobby group and pornography advocates have joined forces to criticise a plan to have public consultation on introducing R18+ video games.

Meeting in Adelaide today, the nation's attorneys-general agreed to ask the public whether an R18+ category for video games should be introduced.

Games which exceed the top MA15+ category cannot be sold in Australia.

If an R18+ class was introduced it would allow adults to play video games involving graphic violence.

The call for public consultation was immediately criticised by both the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) and the Eros Foundation – a pornography lobby group.

"Given what happens with R-rated films, we could have no confidence that the classification guidelines would be properly applied," ACL managing director Jim Wallace said in a statement.

"For example, due to loopholes in the guidelines, real sex is sometimes being shown in R-rated films.

"What will happen if we have R18+ games, which have even greater impact because of their interactive nature," he asked.

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Euphoric | April 10, 2008

Just give us the R rating for shits sake. There is no harm in it as they would only be selling the games to those who show ID anyway so I really don't see the issue they have. 18+ are allowed to drink, join the army, drive, fire a weapon etc. and yet we aren't allowed to play games that are 'too violent'. It's teh most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.
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tallteen86 | April 10, 2008

Aye. Conservatives go stir crazy whenever "Video Games" and "Sex/Violence" is mentioned in any way, shape, or form.

They should stop being quite so conservative in Europe as well (though GTA IV got through unscathed, surprisingly)....
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iLLmatic | April 10, 2008

Damn I am glad I don't have to play edited games. lol what the hell is going on in that last picture though? The hell game is that?
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chautemoc | April 10, 2008

Beautiful, beautiful post. And best series of images ever, if I daresay so myself. =)
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Silver Mirror | April 10, 2008

That's it I am going to have to call a gaming crusade in Australia! Rally the kangaroo's and mount the emu's, tomorrow were at war!
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  Euphoric | April 10, 2008
  
  hahaha Classic!
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  Gamesta100 | April 10, 2008
  
  Count me in on the war lol.
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X_MANBEARPIG_X | April 10, 2008

Under 18s have sex..I don't see what the big deal is.
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Euphoric | April 10, 2008

It's also to do with the violence. But I mean come on. Playing a game doesn't turn someone into a crazed violent killer/thug. That is unless they were already previously unstable mentally. But then it's not the games fault is it? (Rhetorical question )
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Tock | April 10, 2008

what game is that... you know, the one with the very happy girl?
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  Euphoric | April 10, 2008
  
  No idea mate. I just searched google for sex games and went to images haha. I did get some non gaming outcomes though...
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theundertakergonzo | April 10, 2008

Please give us the R rating FFS. It's so shit that we don't have the R rating. It bands us from having several games down in Oz. The extreme christians down here just seem about against everything. I'm down right sick of it. We need the R rating to sort things out down here. So we can play those games which unfortunately exceed what would be on the MA rating.
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kik36 | April 10, 2008

Man, that last game looks awesome!!! When's it coming to the US on PS3?! LMAO Sorry to hear about your troubles down under....hopefully some intelligent people start realizing that you guys/girls can make the conscious decision of what is right for you and what isn't. I'm totally against censorship in any form....unless it is an adult media being exposed to children.

Adults should be allowed to be adults.....after all Politicians, they're paying your salaries!!!
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Envoy of Darkness | April 10, 2008

That's bullshit, you guys don't have a R rating. I hate those religious crusades on everything, hopefully they don't succeed.
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Final Blade | April 10, 2008

_{As if anyone is going to become a ninja With Claws and a Huge Scyth and start killing people. And using Ninpo against our foes as well

Euphoric where did you get the last picture, i mean this is your article, did you find it on the site? And did it say what the game was?

EDIT: I just searched for Sex Video Games on google image and it came up with results of 3D Sex Game Virtual Online Porn, and such. But i doubt thats it though.}
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  Euphoric | April 11, 2008
  
  I made some searched on google for Sex games etc...Once you wade through all the porn that comes up I found that somewhere. It was hard to find though. I was going to use a pic of the GTA sex scene, but it was too small
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tracemastax | April 11, 2008

100% sure its saints row cuz i played that mission.
the funny thing is that the girls give bj's and have sex w/ their close on. Tho actually some of the girls who are in the mission are completely naked except for wearing like a thong and have their tits blocked out by wearing stickers on them...
the game is rated M