Total Male Nudity on New 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Episode

[Davin]

Rockstar Games is back with a new episode for 'Grand Theft Auto IV' and it comes with complete male nudity

http://www.switched.com/2009/02/20/total-male-nudity-on-new-grand-theft-auto-iv-episode/

[barebuns]

they've got a poll about whether or not you approve of male nudity in video games. While there's not a lot of nuance in the question be in vanilla nudity or sexualized nudity (neither would I see a gamer's site to be overly concerned with such nuance - of course I voted that I approve. . .

[Naturist Zoar]

I voted for it, too.

[nudeM]

Ok, call me wierd, but I voted "I'm not sure". The majority of these games portray nudity as sex objects, not nudist related issues. It's more on the line that 'sex sells'. To that, I don't think that is good for our younger generation to view the human body as a sex object. Granted, our kids know a lot more about sex than I did at their age, but we don't need to commercialize sex, any more than it is already.

To that, there is a fine line between entertainment and eroticism. In these games, eroticism is being portrayed as the selling point of the game i.e., it gets you want your want, or it can be used against you. It can add to your points, or cause you to lose points. I am not into these games, so I don't know that much about them, but I have seen enough to know that the era of Atari is long past and the world of virtual sex and violence has taken over. I just don't think that nudity, in this case, would be an improvement for the nudist cause. It's being used as a cheap thrill.

Old fashioned? What do you think? LOL

[Lord Drakkus]

I voted for it. The description of it was that he was just getting a massage and then got up and didn't bother covering. But even if there was more to it, I wouldn't have a problem with it. It's my opinion that the more nudity you see in general, the less you care about it. I also believe that nudity in games, sexual or not, is a good thing. If you're the type of person that gets off on seeing simple nudity, then eventually that's going to wear off and you're going to have to go with more hardcore material to get the same reaction, and eventually you're just not going to care about nudity at all without the extreme sexual aspect. Eventually, you're going to become so accustomed to it in video games that seeing it out in public won't even be an issue.

I would actually like to see more full frontal male nudity in video games, even with the sexual aspect.

[Denn]

I voted too

[mmacdonaldca]

I voted. and really...why not? it much better than the violence and graphic sexual content that usually happens in these games

[Paniga]

im just waiting for ppl to complain about this addon to the game about the nudity. By now parents know the GTA seris pushes the limits and its a adult game. If parents dont like it why are they buying it for the kids. I know with laws and such a teen cant but the GTA games, the parents have to do it