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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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BigBosss3820d ago

no, because it's just a game.

jimsl1ce3820d ago

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

-Foxtrot3820d ago

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

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Multiplatguy3820d 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.

Gaming247allday3820d ago (Edited 3820d 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

Link2DaFutcha3820d 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.

PONTIAC08G8GT3820d 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.

thereapersson3820d 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-JEDI3820d 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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Neixus3820d ago

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

pics4jam3820d 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.

Giru0173820d ago

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

DoctorJones3820d 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.

ImHyjack3820d ago

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

ThatOneGuyThere3820d 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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yarbie10003820d ago (Edited 3820d ago )

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

protocol103820d 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."

joab7773820d 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-JEDI3820d 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.

JsonHenry3820d 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"?

AndrewLB3820d ago

banging a hooker isn't rape.

LackTrue4K3820d ago

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

jspsc1233820d ago

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

3-4-53820d 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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spurgeonryan3820d ago

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

jimsl1ce3820d 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?

Julie3820d ago (Edited 3820d ago )

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

Revengeance3820d ago

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

annoyedgamer3820d ago (Edited 3820d ago )

That didn't take long.

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pics4jam3820d 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.

Feralkitsune3820d 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.

pics4jam3820d 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.

Heisenburger3820d ago (Edited 3820d 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....

ThatOneGuyThere3820d 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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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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ocelot079d ago

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

VenomUK9d ago (Edited 9d 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.

Profchaos9d ago

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

Tacoboto9d 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.

FortWaba9d ago

Trash article and trash website.

Doesn't even mention WHEN it's leaving.

gold_drake8d ago (Edited 8d 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

gamerz8d ago

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

Shiore2u8d ago

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

Chard8d ago

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

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GTA V Enhanced And Expanded Faces Backlash Over Missing Text Chat On PC, Fix May Be Incoming

The Enhanced and Expanded PC version of Rockstar Games' open world action game, GTA V, is facing backlash over its missing text chat feature.

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Profchaos53d ago

My problem with the game is they want to install a Kernel level driver before I can even boot the game in sngle player mode I don't care about GTA online

I flat out refuse to allow any game kernal level it's a huge risk I don't need to take

It's not the only game that has done this. Ut it's absolutely shutting the dorr completely on PC gaming for me kernal level drivers are ineffective at preventing cheaters but publishers insist on continued use

Pyrofire9552d ago

My big issue is how long it takes to transition between open world and interiors in Online.
Sometimes it can take over a minute of just starring at a black screen.

badz14952d ago

Let it sleep already R*. VI is coming and this game has had 12 years in the spotlight.

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GTA 5 Enhanced PC Optimized Settings: Ray Tracing & Performance Guide

Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced Edition comes to PC as a free upgrade as Rockstar prepares to launch its next blockbuster (GTA 6). In less than a week, the upgraded version has garnered close to 200K concurrent players on Steam. Unfortunately, the game is far from perfect. W

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MrDead57d ago

It looks great, got everything running on ultra, have long shadows set to max and it's running silky smooth.

The ray tracing and lighting makes the game look amazing.

CrimsonIdol56d ago

The reflections are a noisy mess, particularly with DLSS. Shame they didn't have ray reconstruction, seems to work wonders for cyberpunk

MrDead56d ago

The reflections are like a mirror, I have no noise at all. Are you sure you have it set correctly?

CrimsonIdol56d ago

I've everything maxed out. the reflections DO have a lot of noise in them in motion. When you stop for a second to look at them they look okay but when you're driving around there's a definite blur and sparkle to them that you often get from RT. Again, exactly the same as you get in Cyberpunk without ray reconstruction but is much reduced with.

MrDead56d ago

I really don't have that, what you see here is what I have in motion even online vids have it completely clear. I'm running of a 5090 with everything set to the highest.

https://m.youtube.com/watch...

CrimsonIdol55d ago

Ah I see. Well if you have a 5090 then I'm guessing are you're probably getting quite a high frame rate (I'm guessing hitting that 120 fps max), which will make a difference too, since the RT samples in the reflections accumulate temporally. I'm on a 3080 so I'm keeping my frame rate around 60-75 at 4K, and the low sample/high noise of the RT is definitely apparent… particularly on moving cars at night time I've noticed the most (makes sense given highest contrast between light and dark) DLSS amplifies the noise too, it's the big thing that sticks out as low fidelity when the rest resolves nicely

CrimsonIdol55d ago (Edited 55d ago )

Just had a chance to watch this on my 4K monitor now. Do you not see the blurriness of the reflections in relation to everything else in motion? Like it's definitely better and less noisy than it is for me at 60fps with quality DLSS but it's still pretty bad compared to how crisp the screen space/cubemap ones were when driving about. fine when you stop for a second but driving around you're rarely stopped so it's near constant muddy reflections.

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