Although I don’t really agree with Amanda Kloer’s post at End Human Trafficking, she points out some interesting moves made by the seller of infamous Rapelay, BGamebox. Apparently they have recategorized said game as a ‘Platinum’ game and not a ‘Rape’ (‘ryoujoku’) game. The company has gone further and renamed other games in hopes of making them sound less ‘bad’. As Amanda Kloer points out, Gang Raped by the Entire Village: Girls Covered in Milky Liquid is now The Trap Set by the Entire Village: Bodies Covered in Milky Liquid.

The article as a whole, however, has a notably old-world approach. Kloer holds that the media is a pervasive and insidious force. As she says, the aforementioned games ‘train players (often young men) how to rape and abuse women and train them as sex slaves’. This I disagree with. They they might attract rapists (or those with a rape fetish), but they don’t train them. See this article for a discussion about the issue RE Rapelay.

[http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/sex_slave_training_video_game_for_sale_under_new_euphemism]
[http://www2.bgamebox.com/oshirase.htm]
[http://www.touchebitches.com/2009/06/lets-do-pomo-again-rape-games.html]