I don't, I just don't get it. I was thinking about this topic the other day, and thought seeing as I had not put anything into the journal for a while, I may as well ramble my way on here. What is America's preoccupation (read hypocrisy) with the naked body appearing on television and more importantly games.

For example the biggest scandal to come out on television in the last couple of years in America is 'Nipplegate' where Janet Jackson "accidentally" flashed a whole breast (minus nipple which was covered) on television during half time of the super bowl, and the 'good american people' suddenly go into an uproar about indecency...blah blah blah. Showing a bit of flesh in a games is also considered a big no no, with games that attempt to do so (the average BMXXX and Playboy Mansion) being frowned upon. However this is not mainly about games but overall multimedia entertainment.

Yet this comes from a country where everyone has the constitutional right to carry a gun, huge amounts of movies are produced depicting various acts of killing, torture, and pain, not to mention that copious amounts of games that are developed solely on the basis of killing something, or more importantly someone. And now we have a game hitting stores that allows you to play as a cop who can get addicted to drugs of varying degrees of substance abuse and danger. As I said before, I just don't get it.

The message that I seem to be getting from American society is that it is OK to kill/torture/main someone, take a drug of dependence, or act in any other way that does not benefit society, yet as soon as it comes to seeing some flesh, oh my goodness cover your eyes. Here is yet another component of the hypocrisy, with America being one of the biggest producers of pornography in the world, but we can't show any flesh in main stream media.

Don't get me wrong, I love playing games where you run around shooting the hell out of other people, and I won't say no to a good porno, but I know the difference between fantasy and reality and where the line should be drawn, and making a game that includes drug dependence just crosses it in my books. I'm glad I live in a country that still views that as wrong.

As I said at the start though, the hypocrisy that I see..........I just don't get it!