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Does GTA 5's Sex With Prostitutes In First Person Promote Rape Culture?

In response to the increase in arguments about whether or not many sexualized things in both the media and in the general public promote Rape Culture, we at 1MG pose the question to you, does GTA:5 First Person Mode Prostitute Sex promote Rape Culture?

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Ridiculous click bait crap. How does have fake virtual sex with a consenting prostitute promote rape? Also this has been going on in previous GTA games, why should a difference in perspective bring about this stupid question?
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BigBosss3842d ago

no, because it's just a game.

jimsl1ce3842d ago

But by saying its just a game could be a statement towards our societies acceptance of what we see.

-Foxtrot3842d ago

That kind of thinking is why gamers can't have nice things.

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Multiplatguy3842d ago

How come this never comes up about movies? It's far more common to find sex, rape and nudity in movies and nobody ever accuses the media of promoting vile acts of criminal activity or anything.

Why is that the same reasonable adults who realize movies don't influence people in this way can't seem to make that distinction for video games?

I have been playing video games and watching movies all my life and even the thought of rape really freaks me out; I look up ratings of movies to avoid it because it will ruin my night. So I disagree with it being a statement about what we accept of what we see.

Gaming247allday3842d ago (Edited 3842d ago )

Give it a break, i'm so sick of you damm cry babies, everything is a problem nowadays, first it was that Zoey Quinn and then Hatred and now this, sick of it all

grow some balls

Link2DaFutcha3842d ago

It promotes rape culture as much as it promotes car theft culture, drug use culture, and murder culture. As @NaughtDogs said, it's a game, you don't like it don't play it, but mostly don't do things in real life that you see in games. That's why I don't jump on turtles or attack patches of grass.

PONTIAC08G8GT3842d ago

FINALLY! Someone who has the balls to type a real, thoughtful, honest, and intelligent article. It absolutely promotes rape culture and also a bunch of other things, such as:

- Stealing a plane from your local airport
- Killing tons of people and then hiding in a dumpster and waiting 10 minutes for the cops to give up
- Stealing speeding cars on the highway who never lock there doors and stop for strange men standing on the highway
- Owning a rocket launcher
- Driving around in a personal tank

After playing GTA for a few minutes, I looked up the price of a tank and it's quite reasonable. I may head over to my local tank dealer and purchase one. And while I'm there, I may kill everyone and take a helicopter for fun.

You're right, GTA is promoting so much more then just fun and beating women. Ray Rice must have played it.

thereapersson3842d ago

This article / website / author is terrible tripe. So now we are classifying consensual sex as rape? I can see a problem with destroying the hooker afterwards, but that's beside the point. I am going to assume the author is an ignorant liberal douche who likes to make up controversial statements for the sake of attention.

BABY-JEDI3842d ago

That's right. Just like the acts of terrorism & barbarity that we see on the news. The sexualisation of women in adverts. The religious bigotry that we have in society, & don't get me started on the G10 governments. Wait a minute. We are just talking about a video game aren't we?

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Neixus3842d ago

idd, and why promote rape? This is just prostitution, not rape..

pics4jam3842d ago

Yeah but saying "its just a video game" and "this is not rape" shows that we're ok with objectifying women, thus promoting rape culture. Whether or not we care is another thing lol.

Giru0173842d ago

@pics4jam
Again, no, it's just prostitution. Rape is a VERY different thing. GTA does NOT feature rape.

DoctorJones3842d ago

@pics4jam

Your post is what's wrong with the world. You're looking for something that isn't there.

Promoting rape culture? What a load of bollocks.

ImHyjack3842d ago

I'm all for a good old fashion stripper turing tricks on the side....

ThatOneGuyThere3842d ago

hey Pics,

If i'm playing as a group of polygons that take on the appearance of a female instead of a male is it still objectifying females when my group of polygons portrays paying for sex with another group of polygons? Get your broken brain away from my video games.

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yarbie10003842d ago (Edited 3842d ago )

No because prostitution is consensual - rape isn't. You can't rape anyone in GTA 5

protocol103842d ago

Although I dont agree with the content in GTA, which is why i wont buy it, I have to say that prostitution is a fare cry from rape. Saying that showing sex in a game promotes rape culture is just as dumb as saying violence and sex in games is ok because "its just a game."

joab7773842d ago

That's not the issue.

They jumped to sex b/c...well, it's SEX!! Are you kidding me. We have only been obsessed w/ sex since, well...we could have it!

Sex and violence are everywhere. It's all intermingled. Porn is so pervasive it's absurd. Violence goes hand in hand with many young men. Look at all the violent sites. They have ads for...PORN.

This is simply what the human race has been doing forever, sex and violence. It isn't one race, it's all over the world. And since the dawn of reletavism and post modern existentialism, it has moved from the unacceptable shadows to the acceptable.

Video games are a symptom, not the problem.

BABY-JEDI3842d ago

I don't go to violent sites, hence no idea about the advertisement of porn within these domains. Normally go to gaming sites. No porn here.

JsonHenry3842d ago

Pretty sure it was a business deal and the girl in the video looked willing. Therefore- NOT RAPE. Not even virtual rape.

If it's empowering and a woman's right to abortion, walk topless like males, serve in combat military roles- then why can't a woman choose to be a prostitute (it is her body!!) as her chosen profession without it being called "rape culture"?

AndrewLB3842d ago

banging a hooker isn't rape.

LackTrue4K3842d ago

I've T-Bag online players some times. But that's as far as rape goes on in GTAV.

jspsc1233842d ago

dont they know all the weird rapist are playing WWE not GTA

3-4-53842d ago

NO Jim....

By saying "it's just a game"

People are making an Obvious intelligent observation that is accurate about said situation.

IT LITERALLY is just a game and not real.

If you think it's real....YOUR the problem.

This has been in GTA since 1997...

But only now this article comes up again.

Nobody promotes Rape...that is ignorant & foolish.

Click Bait at it's worst....

* Next UP : Does Sesame Street Hate Women ?

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spurgeonryan3842d ago

It is pretty horrible to be honest. Keep buying it world!

jimsl1ce3842d ago

Do you think you could pretty much copy and paste arguments from video game violence threads? Or is video game violence and promoting "rape culture" two different arguments?

Julie3842d ago (Edited 3842d ago )

1. Rape is not a culture
2. Prostitution is not rape
3. Grow up...what a crappy website

Revengeance3842d ago

Wow you came up with a dumb topic. Rape =/= prostitution

annoyedgamer3842d ago (Edited 3842d ago )

That didn't take long.

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pics4jam3842d ago

I think it is CLEARLY objectifying women, GTA V also CLEARLY promotes violence. But it comes down to the person and how they are raised and what environment they are in. Video games don't rape people, people rape people.

Feralkitsune3842d ago

But, prostitutes actually exist. It's not like the game is going out of it's way to make women look bad. No, it's emulating urban criminal life.

pics4jam3842d ago

I think its probably more what the prostitutes say that objectifies women (if you watch the video), rather then the act itself. GTA is a case study of the world, true. But its often exaggerated.

Heisenburger3842d ago (Edited 3842d ago )

I always liked that Michael, who from the outside looking in, "had it all", had the worst life. At least in my subjective opinion. All three main characters had their own problems but Mr. American Dream was by far the worst.

He got it all, but he really didn't have anything.

OT: WTF is "rape culture"?

This game objectifies every person in it, just for different reasons. People *could go on, and on about the stereotypes Lamar fits into, and does it promote this and that, but they don't(and shouldn't). Michael's daughter is a pitch perfect parody, as is his wife, ect.

The Legend of Zelda doesn't make me want to stab people through the forehead(OOT).

/end of.

http://i.imgur.com/fyFMwXS....

ThatOneGuyThere3842d ago

actually, GTA has always PARODIED objectifying women, violence, and everything else under the sun. if you dont understand that, you dont understand GTA.

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GTA5 Has Sold Over 215 Million Copies, Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 74 Million Units

Take-Two announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2025, also sharing an update on the sales of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
The anticipation for GTA6 has reached fever pitch, with the latest trailer being the biggest video launch of all time.

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LostPotato11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Milk...get your milk...and so much more. Really when you release the same games in three editions over 15 years it's amazing how much money, and the amount of sales you earn. It's amazing how no one can compete.

Mr_cheese10d ago

To be fair, no many companies could release the same game over and over. They've earned that whether we agree or not

DarXyde10d ago

I mean Resident Evil 4 has had longer legs and still hasn't done anything like this.

Profchaos10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

GTA v isn't the only game that's released three consoles generations running but nothing has sold those numbers including GTA San Andreas which is now 4 console generations deep.

anast10d ago

Looks like a 2040 release for GTA6

gold_drake10d ago

thats insane right?
absolutely insane

rlow110d ago

No surprising considering that it’s been on every major platform and store.

I decided to look up the longest and most sold games list. To my surprise Tetris has takes the top spot.

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GTA VI Early Comparison Highlights Massive Jump in Character Detail, Environments & More Over GTA V

A new Grand Theft Auto VI early comparison video highlights the massive jump in character detail, environments and more over its predecessor.

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Snookies1219d ago

I mean, considering the amount of time between the two. It better be a massive upgrade. Especially with the amount of money Rockstar raked in from GTA Online.

MDTunkown18d ago

Most of scenes are pre rendered

andy8518d ago

Literally none are. If you know anything about rockstar they don't do that. Confirmed by themselves that this is all in-game

MDTunkown18d ago

Is that why first gta5 trailer looked better than the final product? Or is that why same happened with rdr2 ?
Rockstar told 50% are cutscenes and rockstars always used better models during cutscenes than in game.
You legit seems to know rockstar very well.

andy8517d ago (Edited 17d ago )

It didn't though? And neither did RDR2. In fact it was actually the opposite. What's with the hate boner? If you don't like it just avoid the topic

InUrFoxHole17d ago

Why don't either of you provide proof. This is just a he said, she said argument at this point

generic-user-name18d ago

You're either lying or just don't know what pre rendered means. Pre rendered means that if you change the character's appearance (clothes, accessories etc) they wouldn't show up in the cutscenes because they were already made and aren't being rendered in real time. This is something that doesn't happen in Rockstar games.

"Is that why first gta5 trailer looked better than the final product? Or is that why same happened with rdr2 ?"

In fact some of the scenes in RDR2 looked better in the retail version than at launched.

anast17d ago

The OP is taking the shot-gun approach: say a bunch of random tripe and see if something sticks.

repsahj17d ago

Damn! GTAV graphics are still awesome! But, I am so excited to play GTA6!!!

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GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced

Rockstar’s iconic title Grand Theft Auto V is making headlines once again—but not for the reasons fans might hope. Less than a year after GTA V joined the

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ocelot0731d ago

I believe it's been on ps+ a few times over the years of I'm not mistaking same goes for gamepass.

VenomUK30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

‘GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced’

That’s an awful clickbait title. The use of the word ‘as’ means the first statement is the result of the second, when in reality they’re not connected.

Profchaos30d ago

Also the same for red dead redemption 2 and GTA trilogy (albeit they split that into individual games)

Tacoboto30d ago

It just got put back on Game Pass recently too.

GTA V is the pass-around sub title, and it probably doesn't even matter because everyone owns a copy or even two by now.

FortWaba30d ago

Trash article and trash website.

Doesn't even mention WHEN it's leaving.

gold_drake30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

so i looked cause i was curious, its still avaliable to me.

the headline is misleading asf.

also, how did no one report this. the editing is horrendous. they'd have my arse for this ha

gamerz30d ago

Noticed my copy of gta5 on Steam was already upgraded without me doing anything. How can you still play the legacy version?

Shiore2u29d ago

There should be a second listing right under it in your library.
https://i.imgur.com/712MsIQ...

Chard29d ago

Is there anything wrong with the enhanced version if you’re just playing single player?