The resent News of the Weird had some rather telling pieces this time around. Here is the lead story:
In July, after word got out that the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" could be fitted with an online update to make some of its scenes explicitly sexual, an 85-year-old grandmother in New York sued the company, Rockstar Games, for having failed to rate the game AO (adults only, age 18 and up) to take account of the modification. However, Florence Cohen apparently freely purchased the M-rated version (age 17 and up) for her then-14-year-old grandson, even though it invites players to murder, steal and engage in gang violence and attacks on police. She complained only when she found out that the M version's unexplicit sex and partial nudity could be made explicit. [MSNBC-AP, 7-27-05]
OK, then, so I guess breaking at least 4 or 5 commandments is OK with Grandma. Seeing a little explicit "in-out in-out", OTOH, evidently crosses the line. You really have to wonder what is going on in Grandma's head.
After all, it isn't the seeing of the women naked and all the "in-out in-out" that is going to warp little Johnny's mind at all. The tripe that the game already contains (violence, murder, disdain for authority, degradation of women to mere sex objects, etc.) is far more damaging then the addition of some T&A.
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