ラーム博士の治療は一種の「化学的去勢」に近いが、心理療法でペドフィリアを治療する考え方もある。英国の組織「StopSO（STOP Sexual Offending）」ではペドフィリアに心理療法を行い、犯罪から遠ざけようとしている。「StopSO」の代表によると、ペドフィリアの原因は「ストレス、結婚や成人パートナーと接触出来ない等の問題」だと言う。そしてそれらの問題を取り除くには、心理療法が最適だと断言する。
男女の「絡み」も親密すぎるものは御法度。「Rock and Roll Love」の主人公、ミサコとジャメインのキスシーンを描くときも、男の子のキャラクターの手の位置に気を遣いました。キスより先、つまり、ベッドに横たわって見つめ合ったり、女の子の胸の位置に男の子が手を置くーーなんて完全にアウト。ケンカで相手の胸ぐらをつかむシーンなんて、もってのほか！それこそ編集者に殴られてしまいそうです。
批判を鵜呑みにし続ける現状に未来はない、地獄へと突き進み始めたゲーム業界
Blizzardの対応に見る危険な表現への規制。
By BIG_MON on 2016.04.03 http://damonge.com/p=16208
■ゲーム業界を蝕む社会正義の声
ここ最近、ゲームにおける女性キャラクターの表現について糾弾する意見が声高に叫ばれ、クリエイターに対する圧力として世界中のゲーム関係者を蝕みつつある。
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3は欧米での販売を中止する方針を発表し、ストリートファイターVはバッシングによって表現を修正することとなった。いずれも欧米で巻き起こっているラディカル・フェミニズム旋風(Third-wave feminism)に関連したゲーム企業側の対応だ。
この運動は「ゲームが女性蔑視を拡大している」との主張を元に展開され、今や世界的な大企業さえその声を無視できない。それを象徴する事件がBlizzardの例だろう。
A new long-term study into violent media in the US could help settle the long-standing argument of whether or not violent films and video games are to blame for violence in society.
The research, led by psychologist Christopher Ferguson and published in the Journal of Communication, not only found that there was no link between violent media and behaviour but also questioned the methodology of previous studies suggesting the two were related.
Ferguson and his team point out that many laboratory-based studies into the effect of media violence have measured aggression in test subjects through “less aggressive outcomes ranging from filling in the missing letters of words through delivering nonpainful noise bursts to a consenting opponent.”
The study points out that these studies also commonly “provide exposure to brief clips of media, rather than full narrative experiences” and that “the resultant aggressive behaviors are also outside a real-world context in which the aggression appears to be sanctioned by the researchers themselves.”
In the first of two historical studies the researchers examined the correlation of violent films and societal violence, analysing the frequency of violent acts in the top-grossing titles between 1920 and 2005.
The study notes that film violence followed “a rough U pattern” during this time period, but that societal violence fluctuated differently, with the latter half of the 20th century even showing an increase in film violence “associated with reduced societal violence”.
A second study into video game violence used data from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) to estimate the violent content of popular games from 1996 to 2011. This was then compared with data on youth violence during the same years, with the study finding a correlation between falling youth violence and the popularity of violent games.
During this time period “youth violence dropped precipitously”, the researchers write, “despite maintaining very high levels of media violence in society with the introduction of videogames.”
In a press statement Ferguson notes that the media narrative surrounding violent video games and youth violence may be due to the “limited amount of resources and attention” that society can devote to “the problem of reducing crime”.
He adds, however, that if the wrong problem is identified, it may "distract society from more pressing concerns such as poverty, education and vocational disparities and mental health."
Ferguson writes: "This research may help society focus on issues that really matter and avoid devoting unnecessary resources to the pursuit of moral agendas with little practical value."
レイプ被害が大きな問題となっている私の大学では、性的暴行防止キャンペーンやデモ、集会などがよく開かれています。昨日も、「Take Back The Night-Eugene」という大規模な集会がキャンパス内で行われており、その後は街中でデモ行進が行われました。
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集会中に配られたビラ
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参加者がデモ中に叫ぶことばが記載されたカード
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2015年、マキニス准教授とハドソン教授は信仰深い州とインターネット上のアダルトコンテンツ利用との間に同様の相関関係があることを発見した。研究グループは、多くの人々が自分をとても信仰深いと考えて信仰は生活にとって大切なものだとみなしている州を「信仰深い州」だと定義した。研究グループは、この「信仰深い州」の方が Google で性的なコンテンツを検索する人たちが多いことを発見した。
英国に拠点を置く研究者のグループが行った調査研究は、「Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children」（親と子どもに関するエイヴォン長期研究）の研究対象となった1,800人の子どもたちに関して行われたものだ（1991年から92年にかけて生まれた1万4,000人の子どもたちに関して、8歳〜9歳のときに2,400人にアンケート調査を行い、その後15歳になったときに5,000人に調査を行った。8歳〜9歳と15歳の両方の調査で答えた人数が1,800人になる）。
Republican delegates unanimously adopted an amendment to their draft platform Monday morning that called pornography “a public health crisis” and a “public menace” that is destroying lives.
The language went further in its condemnation of porn than the 2012 GOP platform, which condemned child pornography and encouraged the enforcement of obscenity and pornography laws.
“Pornography, with his harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions. We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children’s safety and wellbeing,” the amendment stated.
Mary Forrester, a delegate from North Carolina, offered the amendment during the Republican National Convention subcommittee meeting on healthcare, education and crime. The full body votes on the platform changes Monday and Tuesday.
Before the amendment, the platform’s section on porn read that the Internet must not become “a safe haven” for sex offenders. The section encouraged the “energetic prosecution of child pornography.”
In an interview with Yahoo News after the meeting, Forrester said she worked on the amendment with the conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America. She said she was worried young people became addicted to porn. “It’s such an insidious epidemic and there are no rules for our children,” Forrester said. “It seems to be for young people, they do not have the discernment and so they become addicted before they have the maturity to understand the consequences.”
The condemnation of porn was just one of the ways the GOP platform became more socially conservative during the subcommittee meeting. The draft platform blasted the “dangerous” Obama administration directive to schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity. It also called on the Supreme Court to overturn its decision last year finding a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The platform also declared that marriage is between a man and a woman.
A group of delegates, led by GOP donor Paul Singer adviser Annie Dickerson, fought to temper the platform’s language on LGBT rights, but failed.
Donald Trump has maintained distance from the LGBT rights battle going on in his own party, and has showed little interest in getting embroiled in the social conservative issues that have dominated the GOP in the past. Nevertheless, Trump has also reportedly signaled that he’ll accept the GOP party platform, which about a hundred delegates are amending Monday and Tuesday in several conference rooms in Cleveland ahead of next week’s full convention.
