RapeLay : Virtual Sexual Assault

RapeLay is a Japanese game that enables the player to stalk, harass and eventually fuck a virtual female victim. Not really a new cultural development from a country with a comic book super-hero called RapeMan.

How RapeLay works:

The game begins with a man standing on a subway platform, stalking a girl in a blue sundress. On the platform, you can click “prayer” to summon a wind that lifts her skirt. She blushes. Once she’s on the train, the assault begins. Inside the subway car, you can use the mouse to grope your victim as you stand in a crowd of mute, translucent commuters. From here, your character corners his victim—in a station bathroom, or in a park with the help of male friends—and a series of interactive rape scenes begins.

RapeLay relies on the horrendous, wildly sexist fantasy that rape victims enjoy being attacked. After the exposition, the game essentially becomes a simulator of consensual intercourse. There’s kissing. The women orgasm.

Should the United States ban a Japanese “rape simulator” game?

The game - in which players stalk and sexually assault female characters - is not supposed to be sold outside of Japan, but can be found on some Web sites, according to members of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault.

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The groups’ call for the game to be banned is symbolic at best. RapeLay can be downloaded from many sites, most of which are outside of the control of New York state and American law enforcement in general.