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What offends American parents most, when it comes to video game content? USA Today provides a summary, revealing that the most dire offense concerns sex, of course:
(image from Water Cooler Games, not on USAToday site, oddly)
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As predictable as it is disheartening. Be as crude and violent as you like, just don't have any physical contact that could be construed as affectionate. I blame Disney. Or possibly J Edgar Hoover.
Posted by: Ed Webb | July 10, 2008 at 08:43
The problem with this survey is its really hard to take a bunch of disgusting things and then say which is the worst. Because the surveyors never get to defend their argument. I am sure that most of those surveyed are fans of sex. They have the kids right. They just don't like how it is presented in video games.
Posted by: Kyle - choirteachers.blogspot.com | July 10, 2008 at 10:49
It certainly is consistent, Ed.
Kyle, do you think these parents' views on video games are similar to their views of movies and tv?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | July 10, 2008 at 19:07
I recommend reading about the parental reactions to the (critically acclaimed, I recommend it personally) game Mass Effect. I'm having a hard time finding the original Fox News rant about it.
At any rate, here's a good start.
http://ps2.gamezone.com/news/06_19_08_12_25PM.htm
Posted by: Joseph McMahon | July 16, 2008 at 10:55