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From the Eroge Front: United Nations recommends h-game ban
by Josh Tolentino, 08/23/2009
From the Eroge Front: United Nations recommends h-game ban photo

It's not quite over yet. In a press release regarding a July 23rd meeting of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United Nations listed a ban on games featuring rape and sexual violence among its suggestions for improving Japan's progress in advancing women's rights.

It's not too much of a stretch to see this in some way connected to the Rapelay incident, since Equality Now, one of the feminist groups that sounded the horn on Rapelay announced their intent to pursue a UN-enforced ban. Of course, none of this implies that blanket action of any sort is in the works, other than the one already laid down by the industry's own self-regulatory body, the EOCS.

For its part, the Japanese delegation to the UN emphasized the recent strengthening of child porn and rape laws in Japan (though animated porn was not covered), and the growing public and policy discussion regarding eroge. They stressed that the concern was of great importance, and that the advice of the CEDAW would be used moving foward. I'm reasonably certain that they didn't mention all the rebranding going on with regards to that.

Being a male eroge enthusiast, I'm hardly one to talk, but it feels a little distressing to see censorship being called for by groups whose core principles are incompatible with such. Feminist groups are also concerned with reproductive rights, sexual liberation (or the expression thereof) and personal privacy, all of which are rights that would be invoked by those who would defend eroge. Especially since no definitive proof exists of a connection between fictional products and actual discrimination. If all this makes you feel like writing a letter, try Yes to Freedom, a site that sprang up from this sort of thing. If nothing else, their form letters don't sound like the were written by a raging nerd.

 






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