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slate.com - 3/9/2009

Should the United States ban RapeLay, a Japanese "rape simulator" game? - By Leigh Alexander - Slate Magazine

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RapeLay from Illusion Software. Click image to expand. Image from RapeLay For a brief window in the mid-2000s, video games became politicians' favorite piñata. Joe Lieberman and Ted Kennedy spoke out against 2004's JFK Reloaded, a game that let you re-enact the Kennedy assassination . The "Hot ...

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