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Carole "violent games cause rape" Lieberman rewords her thoughts, still sounds mislead

by rawmeatcowboy
10 February 2011
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“The more video games a person plays that have violent sexual content, the more likely one is to become desensitized to violent sexual acts and commit them. When people combine sexual and violent images, particularly in video games where you’re not just passively watching, you’re pushing buttons, you’re getting physically involved in this act, it has a particularly stimulating impact. It stimulates the sex center of the psyche and the violence center of the psyche and make the whole effect more stimulating. And so it’s natural that the more the violent impulses are stimulated…[she paused] it’s not that everyone goes out and kills but people become more aggressive with getting into parking spots or everyday things… so when there are also sexual things, like words in this new game they are using, or images, it stimulates the two centers in the psyche and makes the overall impact linking sex and violence — and desensitizing people to violent sex — more impactful, more inciteful.” - Carole Lieberman

Yeah, I’m still not buying it. I think she has an agenda, and she also has no problem badmouthing a medium that she barely knows anything about. On top of that, I’ve come to find out that Lieberman was also worried about the effects of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on kids. Now, that’s just plain silly…

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