Influenced Videogames
Over the past week, I was intrigued to learn about some of the newer video games that have hit the market. Unlike the usual very violent video games that guys typically play, there now are games that are surround the idea of "getting laid" to win. Our society has been so affected by the constantly increasing amounts of pornography that has been influencing the younger generations that we now have an industry that is centered around the one thing that people would least expect.
Some video games from the have been scrutinized for the lack of clothing that the female players have to wear. One of those games, Tomb Raiders, has been in the news in the past years but this type of bad publicity has not really affected it's popularity. One can even dress a female golf player in an extremely skimpy outfit while she does something as innocent as playing eighteen holes of golf. However those games were not the ones that bothered me as much as some of those whose main objective is to have sex with certain girls after getting them drunk. Leisure Suit Larry, < a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry"> </a>, is a game where the main player has to go around impressing girls, getting them drunk, and eventually having sex with them. Some of the tasks that the player has to do include having to go into a gay strip club and take pictures of a man walking around in just a thong to give to a bartender who, in exchange for this picture, will give you information on how to get to sleep with a certain girl. These practices may seem harmless and in good humor, but what happens when younger kids are playing this? The only message that I can see kids getting from these are, getting a girl drunk to sleep with her is the right thing to do, or sleeping around is ok. I know that this post doesn't really have much to do with this class I just couldn't help talking about it since we were dealing with the "pornification" of society in last week's lecture. I think it's interesting to look at how pornography and sexually explicit content is still making an influence on other forms of technology since it's first presentation on the internet.
