I don't really get why games need to be so violent but I guess being a girl, it would be considered normal. I'm not talking about a little bit of blood and such but much gore, games where you can beat people for no reason and such never appealed to me... I find them sick and I'm not into any religion, but I do have certain morals.

As for sex, well often woman are portraiyed as sexual objects in about anything. I don't really like it but I tend to avoid it that's all. I do enjoy sex and all, but it's kinda insulting to woman to seem like a pleasure toy rather than aliving being with feelings. Don't get me wrong though, not all men are like that but for most part, yes. *Personal experiance*

 Exactly my opinion. I don't have any problems with action games like Far Cry or whatever even though I sometimes find it rather sad that the ADHD X-box generation is almost solely fed with this kind of games. And hey, everyone knows that Hot coffe currupts the minds of good christian americans more than stabbing out the eyes, saw off the the head does.

Well...

 *Goes back to torturing monsters in Minish Cap*

well said andrew peirce... you play quality games like God of War and then theres some sex mini game in the game just because it bolsters hype and sales from desperate teen kids... and yes lolita it is pretty insulting and degrading (but that's what happens when you have pervy old MEN, in charge of everything), I'm doing an investigation on it for my exams about how men and women are used in advertising... the whole 'sex sells' mantra is what i'm gonna be looking at

@ rasone 77, i agree with some of what you have said, esp. about the sex stuff... too much casual sex these days... the media cheapens sex a lot for others...=(

 violence doesnt eqaul corruption. The greeks were corrut, and they did great. They were pretty much the most sucesfful society ever imo...

One thing of note andrew... the amount of sex and violence in the media as a whole, will soon be reduced because inherently in the media there is a 'male gaze' as most of the people involved in CONTROLLING and VIEWING the media are men, but as soon as it equals up with men and women HOPEFULLY things will change...

I hope you are being ironic, o, how do you define sucessful in this case?

Let me exemplify (Athens):

Men having sex with boys for pleasure, women were only for giving birth to men, a necessary evil.

All free men were allowed to wote, that was about... 40% or less of the male population.

Is that a definition of your morals, or where lies the succes?

Let the church say Amen...

"Amen."

John Lucas 

ha that first video was funny "OMG there's red stuff!"
also pretty funny showing the dev team at the start, four people to make a game :D

second vid i din't really understand, just looked like a wierd game of hangman.

and seriously what was that third game?, if that was Manhunt then i am going to have to agree with a lot of the media that was just wrong and that game should have been AO.

There's been no increase. Sexuality has been part of literature, film, TV and any other media forever. It's an essential part of our humanity, of who we are, and how we relate to other human beings. If you mean exploitation of sexuality for profit - that's something all media have to face, it's not unique to games.

As for violence - games don't represent realistic violence. Realistic violence is neither fun nor playable nor something you want to repeat over and over again. (Ask any veteran. All those heroic illusions vanish with the first IED detonation.) All those shooters are nothing but paintball with pixels, they're really just a form of sports entertainment.

As an American, I'm far less worried about depictions of warfare and guns in videogames, and far more worried about subtle forms of exclusion, intolerance and xenophobia which exist in the US mass media. Because those subtle forms are what paves the way to lousy political decisions, and the election of lousy politicians leads to illegal, unjust wars. That's something we can critique the media for - but the only solution is to pressure artists and companies to create better media and better games.