
Leading TV psychologist criticises video games for “sexualising children and teenagers”
Video games have been blamed for turning children into “sex objects”, a leading psychologist has claimed.
TV’s Dr Linda Papadopoulos criticised games with sexual content and web browser fashion game Miss Bimbo, where girls compete to “accumulate boob jobs in order to marry a billionaire”.
The London Metropolitan University’s clinical psychologist is producing a report for the Government on the sexualisation of children and teenagers.
She told The Evening Standard: “We are hyper-sexualizing girls, telling them that they must please at any cost. And many boys feel they can’t live up to the porn ideal, sleeping with lots of women.”
Games with sexual scenes which have previously caused controversy include Grant Theft Auto: San Andreas, Mass Effect and Fahrenheit.
Dr Papadopoulos, who has appeared on Channel 4’s Big Brother, also blamed pornography and lads mags Zoo and Nuts.
Her findings will be published within the next two weeks.
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Are does 18+ games?
Those are 18+
"Games with sexual scenes which have previously caused controversy include Grant Theft Auto: San Andreas, Mass Effect and Fahrenheit."
First is nature if some one else please you more why you should stay with the one that does nothing?
“We are hyper-sexualizing girls, telling them that they must please at any cost'"
Well they sleep with the women that want to sleep with many boys, what is the problem with that?
"And many boys feel they can’t live up to the porn ideal, sleeping with lots of women.”
Look to me that this Dr..P... had sexual problem she only had one man and the husband must have gone with other women because she was not really good in bed with him!! LOL
Dr. P... I think you need a Doctor or you need to get sexy with your man otherwise you will never resolve your sexual problems! LOL
In agreement with Manish
I agree with what Manish says here.
These games have adult certificates printed on them, so it's the fault of parents who let their kids play them, or don't put them out of reach if it is they who own them.
The same goes for videogame and cartoon violence. I've played games and watched cartoons that have a lot of battles in them (from age 12 and up), and it never made me want to go out and kill people. If videogames and cartoons are to blame at all, so are dramas and soap operas. Since when do you hear of everything being fluffy in shows like Emmerdale? Someone is beating someone up or killing them in those programmes, when kids are going to be sitting at home with their parents WHEN their parents are watching them. There are sexual encounters in those shows often enough as well!
So, Dr. Papadopoulos and everyone else who thinks it's videogames and cartoons to blame, READ the age rate certificates, take notice of them and start looking at the programmes shown before the watershed like soap operas and crime drama!
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