Sat, Feb 20, 2010 | 20:25 GMT
Psychologist calls out games as one reason kids are sexualized
Big Brother’s Dr. Linda Papadopoulos has said that part of the blame for children being sexualized in this day and age has to do with videogames.
Papadopoulos, a clinical psychologist at London Metropolitan University, has been commissioned by the Home Office to investigate sexualization of children and teenagers and her findings are to be published in the next two weeks.
“We are hypersexualizing girls, telling them that their desirability relies on being desired,” she said, reports The Evening Standard. “They want to please at any cost. And we are hypermasculinizing boys — many feel that they can’t live up to the porn ideal, sleeping with lots of women.
“If I am constantly told that a sexy girl is one who satisfies a lot of men, do I really have a choice? It is a drip, drip effect. Look at porn stars and look at how an average girl looks now.”
Papadopoulos went on to criticize games that contain highly sexual content, like Miss Bimbo, where girls compete to “accumulate boob jobs in order to marry a billionaire”.
The good doctor also pointed to art pamphlets Zoo and Nuts as other offenders.
Via CVG.
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Posted in: Stuff, UK
Tags: Dr. Linda Papadopoulos, The Home Office
8 comments
#1
Gekidami
20/02/10, 8:33 pm
Her examples are hardly mainstream. I’ve never heard of either of those games. Everything else she talks about has nothing to do with games.
#2
Phoenixblight
20/02/10, 8:33 pm
THis just another example of parents not doing their job.
#3
mentor07825
20/02/10, 9:04 pm
Never heard of that game. But with the link supplied, I most certainly will soon! ;D
#4
justiceblob
20/02/10, 9:37 pm
Lets face it, its just the fighting genre. (DOA I’m looking at you)
i like the sound of Miss Bimbo too, sounds like it has a real deep level-up system.
#5
endgame
20/02/10, 10:09 pm
“If I am constantly told that a sexy girl is one who satisfies a lot of men, do I really have a choice?” lol. idk, do u!? :p wow, she’s stupid as hell.
and
“many (boys) feel that they can’t live up to the porn ideal, sleeping with lots of women” is that why boys sleep with girls? and me who thought it was just because their looking for a good time.
come on, is this story real? is this entity actually being paid to say such nonsense?
#6
Pyrix
20/02/10, 10:35 pm
I bet this report cost lots of money the government doesn’t have, and its ‘findings’ will result in absolutely nothing and will be entirely useless.
#7
Joe_Gamer
21/02/10, 5:47 am
WTF? You sure they weren’t studying psychotropic mind altering drugs? Cause those comments did not originate from a sober, intelligent person.
Why are kids becoming sexualized? Fucking TV contributes a thousand times more to the problem than god damn video games. When was the last time you saw an ugly person on TV that wasn’t there for comedy relief?
#8
Freek
22/02/10, 7:40 am
Odd commetns, considering the new trends in games being: realism, freedom of choice and consequences.