On the subject of freedom of artistic expression.

This is a formal letter to all of those who participated in demanding Japan to ban all adult games.

I hope you all feel very proud of yourselves.

Inevitably, because of your actions, rape-based erotic gaming has indeed been banned in Japan. However, this law comes along with many other bans, including bans against things that were otherwise perfectly normal and not related to rape at all. These all fall under the words of "promote violence again, or violate the human rights of, women".

The law bans almost all forms of erotic gaming, save for the missionary position and anything related to homosexuality.

Although the "slippery slope" argument is usually invalid, it's beginning to feel very real in this situation. A lot of people are outraged from these bans, and are now pinning the feminist movement with suppression of artistic freedom and suppression of freedom for men. I think it's perfectly fine if women want to have the same rights as men - but for that to be true, women cannot demand MORE rights than men.

The law is not a knife to delicately carve curves into a statue - it's a big ugly steamroller, crushing everything that may or may not be what it intended to destroy. And it just steamrollered over erotic gaming, and fear of the feminist movement worldwide can only predict what else it will flatten in the months and years to come.

~ Wolf Nanaki ~

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/08/feminist-group-japan-must-ban-adult-games/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/06/24/eroge-taliban-take-over-all-fetishes-banned-in-eroge/