Norwegian site Dagbladet very kindly linked to our GTA IV story today, and also provided some commentary on the sex and violence poll that we ran. What's most interesting are the results to a replicated poll that they're running that shows the very different attitudes to violent and sexual content in Europe.
Here's how their responses to the question "As a parent, which would you find most offensive in a video game?" break down as of lunchtime today. In case you don't read Norwegian; "Et grafisk, avkappet menneskehode" is the "graphically severed human head" response at 65.8%, "To menn som kysser" is what it sounds like, "two men kissing" at 24.9%, "En mann og en kvinne som har sex" is "a man and a women having sex" at 5.2% and "Gjenaatt banning" is the cursing response, at 4.1%.
Interesting international view on sex and violence in games
Friday, April 11, 2008 by John Davison
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See.. This is much better than the american poll. It really freaks me out that people having sex is somehow worse than a severed head.. Yikes! America is really starting to freak me out.. The extreme Christians anyway.
These results are about what I would expect in my country. But I live in another Nordic country.
I'm really pleased Dagbladet decided to run the exact same poll. It shows the stark difference in the perspectives towards sex and violence in America versus Europe.
I'd like to know how it came to be this way over there. Has the general populace sort of retreated from the fight against violent media, to the final fort of sexual media? Is there something ingrained in the culture about sexuality because of the original puritan christian immigrants?
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