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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:06:30 +0000

Nice essay… But there is one thing I don't quite agree on… When comparing sex and violence, you talk about 'love' and 'creation of life'… But in porn and most videogames it doesn't have anything to do with love or creation of life… So isn't that a bit irrelevant with the point in this essay?

By: bdszb

bdszb — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:35:07 +0000

nice book

By: Phillip

Phillip — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:52:06 +0000

This may be a little off the wall but here is my view, video games do not warp minds, in the few cases that video games are involved they can be simply dissmissed through simple logic and understanding of the human mind. Now i may not have this understanding till i get older considering im only 14 years old and still very young to this world, but if anyone has ever heard of Manhunt (PS2) that is one of the most violent games that i have ever played, it includes a considerable array of foul language and gore, including heads being smashed, sawed off, and totally mutlated people. Yes we do accecpt violence to make sexuallity more taboo, still there are probably other games that are even more violent than that people blame video games for the problems with mind but still they never look at common sence such as what state of mind the person was in to begin with.

By: jaz

jaz — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:18:27 +0000

that is the most awsome essay i have evr read(not that i've read many) i really agree with your oppinion on this one and will certainly be thinking about it further. thankyou for being so honest and outspoken it is what we need instead of all this steriod typing and mass produced personalities. i really think love is more appropriate than violence!

By: Bran.

Bran. — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 03:41:16 +0000

Consider the Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's movie. The violence in it is deeply terrible… But you could have a mature 10-year old watch it and understand the movie, or you could have an immature 16-year old watch it and see only how shocking the violence is. For a long while, humanity had always equated extreme violence on the same level as sex – they don't want their kids to see anything about it until they think their kids are mature enough to handle it. But therein lies the problem: Some kids (and their parents) may never be fully mature to handle such issues.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:17:13 +0000

Wow, Raven! You've done it again! Thank you for shedding light on this interesting issue. As a person that thoroughly enjoys playing videogames, I don't see how this "obscene material" that implies sexuality damages our youth. If a parent truthfully thinks this and they don't want their son playing Mr Mosquito because it shows a woman in a bathtub, fine. But don't be hypocritical and take your 8-year old to see Jason vs Freddy because you somehow think blood and gore is "safer" than the human body.