We received hundreds of emails from around the world, many calling for our own rape and murder. Imagery includes women and girls being molested, stalked and gang-raped. In Japan there is a whole genre of extreme pornography, known as hentai, which takes in cartoons and comic books as well as videogames. They asked us why we were targeting RapeLay when, they said, it was mild compared to similar available games. Our international campaign called on the Japanese government to ban games that promote sexual violence against women and girls. In RapeLay the player manipulates an onscreen penis to simulate rape of a woman and her young daughters over and over again.
We highlighted the game RapeLay, produced in Japan, as one example of many that promote violence against women. My organisation, Equality Now, has heard a lot from the fans of some of these games.
