Raijin
A Mage that loves a Templar
Murder has become a glorified act. Millions of men slaughter millions of other men in war and are heralded as heroes for it. Has any rapist ever been called a hero? Men are sentenced with capital punishment and their deaths are called justice. Has any rape ever been called justice? Millions of dollars are spent to make films that glamorize war and murder, which billions of dollars are then spent to see. Has that much money ever been spent on explicit and brutal performances of rape, and have that many people ever been interested to see it? The answer to all of these questions is: no, of course not.
I'm not saying that there's nothing ever wrong with murder. But as a culture we have been conditioned to see murder as sometimes acceptable, sometimes heroic, sometimes necessary. That is why murder and death is everywhere we look: on television, in films, in literature, in magazines, on the internet, and in video games.
I hope we never see a day when rape can, for any reason, be considered acceptable, or heroic, or necessary. I hope we never see a day when we have become desensitized to rape. Would you want that to become our reality? Because putting rape into video games would be a very good start.
I'm fairly certain that many rapists have been called a hero before. Do you think every soldier who gets ship off to war comes back completely innocent? Do you know that women who join the USA military often get raped by their superior officers? In the eyes of society these superior officers are hero's to the American people. This is what happens when women attempted to report a sex crime Rape victims say military labels them 'crazy' - CNN.com
By adding rape in games does NOT desensitized normal rationally thinking people. It doesn't mean that it becomes acceptable because the law is still there once you come back to reality. Rape is in fact part of our reality. Everyday someone falls victim to rape, and the most tragic part of it all is that some of these victims are children. It's a fairly common crime, especially during war. Actually many of the murder victims, mostly women, are often raped before getting murdered.
An addition theirs a NPC woman (Named captive) near Markarth that apparently was raped and murdered by the forsworn bandits.
Rape is everywhere.