Initially I was bummed to hear that the team had been compromised in such a way, because I had been looking forward to checking this out and the news effectively torpedoed whatever interest I had. But some folks got their hands on the mod before it was removed, and it sounds like the whole thing is pretty wretched in some truly unimaginable ways. Bestiality, rape, and an 18 year old girl named America that you can enslave and call "bitch" and "little slave girl" are just some of the criticisms lobbed against this thing. Even with a hypothetical absence of the mod's depraved sexual fantasies, it sounds like it's incredibly inconsistent with Fallout lore. The team had promised a consistency with series fiction pre-release, which isn't exactly congruent with the mod's inclusion of a Solid Snake cameo in which he asks if you'd like to see his "Liquid Snake."
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And while that sucks and is immersion destroying all the fucked up fetish shit in the game is a lot worse. It's like, did anyone proof-read this? I get that the wasteland is rough, but Fallout has already tackled that way more subtly and tastefully in their own games. The cage fighter companion you can get in FO4 deals with issues like abuse, rape, etc... a million times more effectively without calling it out or, ugh, fetishizing it.
Cheyenne is in Goodsprings, but you must acquire her through having sex 3 times with her out of sight of Sunny. You have to figure out how, there are quite a few ways. Once acquired you can talk to her about an optional dog companion that you can disable/enable, tell to go home/set a new home location like all the companions from this mod. The caveat here is he's annoying he will randomly rape the player when initiating dialogue topics. (Hence while he's disabled unless you enable him.) Cheyenne will give you a key to the Sin Shed after recruited. This is in Goodsprings, and it has tons of safe storage, rest bonus enabled beds, crafting stations etc. It also has a few npcs you can have sex with or ask to hold your items.
Little has been heard in recent weeks about the rape accusations that have been leveled against the football star. But that silence is misleading: In Las Vegas, the investigation into Ronaldo continues apace.
The American Kathryn Mayorga, 35, alleges that Ronaldo, 33, raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 -- allegations which he denies. What is beyond dispute, however, is the fact that he paid her a large amount of money as part of an out-of-court settlement so that she would not take her allegations public -- and especially, to prevent her from assisting in any way with the police investigation that took place back then.
Around one month after that night, Ronaldo's London-based lawyer Simon Smith received a message that a woman in the U.S. had accused Ronaldo of rape. Almost immediately, a highly professional legal team was assembled around the superstar, who had just transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid for a then-record sum of 94 million euros.
On Oct. 10, Schertz submitted a request to the district court of Hamburg for "the issuance of a preliminary injunction." His goal was that of prohibiting DER SPIEGEL from reporting on "an intended civil complaint due to an alleged rape committed by the applicant." In the request, he also wrote that if the DER SPIEGEL article were to quote from "alleged statements" made by Ronaldo to his lawyers, it should be noted that Ronaldo "never made such a statement as quoted by DER SPIEGEL."
24-year-old Ronaldo met Kathryn Mayorga, 25, at an exclusive club in Las Vegas called Rain. Hours later, they went to his suite in Palms Place Hotel, along with a few others for a hot-tub party. It is here that the model has alleged that he raped her. In documents accessed by German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, she has described the incident and said that she was changing when Ronaldo walked in on her and persuaded her to have intercourse.
In 2019, Ronaldo and Juventus, the Italian football club he was now part of, were left out of the International Champions Cup, a high-profile summer tournament to eliminate the risk of Ronaldo being detained in LA for his rape allegations, according to The New York Times.
What the fans above are doing is not defending a player they admire, they are invalidating the story of a possible survivor, and actively engaging in victim blaming. This allegation is not different from any other rape allegation, and to see the lengths that fans would go to unreasonably defend him shows just how harmful fan culture can be. Granted, many of these people are also trolls, but several are also die-hard fans whose love for Ronaldo has clouded their judgement and rationale to still see him as a possible rapist.
As anti-caste activist Sankul Sonawane very accurately points out, in the end, it is not Ronaldo who will see you unequivocally defend him, it is the women in your life who will see you side with a rape accused.
With just under a million downloads, the fourth-most downloaded mod on LoversLab is SexLab Defeat (it uses the SexLab name, but Ashal isn't affiliated with it). Because nothing shatters the illusion of roleplaying quite like dying, SexLab Defeat introduces a host of scenarios that occur in lieu of death. In concept, I'd love to see more roleplaying games make death more interesting than a timeout or loss of progress, but SexLab Defeat's solutions center around rape.
Given the incredibly damaging consequences of real world sexual violence, I was troubled by the idea of players acting it out, even in a fantastical context. I reached out to Heather McPherson, an AASECT certified sex therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and founder and CEO of the Sexual Health Alliance to get an expert opinion. I asked her if there's any correlation between fantasizing about rape and a propensity to carry out a sexual assault in real life. "There's no correlation, the data is very poor to back that kind of statement up," she says. "We have a lot of fantasies, some include sex, some don't, but there's a lot of things we fantasize about that we never actually want to do. It's a way for our mind to work out things or heal certain parts of ourselves, it's a way to better understand a situation and work through things that we're feeling."
Research into the psychology of rape fantasies suggests similar conclusions. A 2008 meta-analysis published by Joseph Critelli and Jenny Bivona, researchers at the University of North Texas, combined 20 studies to explore why between 31 and 57 percent of women "have fantasies in which they are forced into sex against their will."
The answer to why such fantasies are so common is of course complicated, but at no point do the findings suggest a correlation between a fantasy involving forced sex and wanting to experience such a scenario in real life. In fact, the term 'rape fantasy' is even misleading because the nuance of such fantasies can be a lot more complex. "Our society idealizes and romanticizes sexual aggression as an expression of passion and 'how much' someone cares or is overcome by desire," Dr. David Ley, a clinical psychologist and sex therapist, writes to me in email. "Such fantasies also appear to be ways in which people may overcome histories of sexual trauma or fear of sexual trauma. Ultimately, the 'why' is less important. There are many, many different reasons for these fantasies. The more important thing is for us to accept and acknowledge them as a part of human sexuality."
Understanding a forced-sex fantasy from the perspective of the victim has been the subject of many studies, but there's much less research exploring the fantasy from the other perspective. If fantasizing about being forced into sex doesn't correlate to a desire to experience rape in real life, can the same be said for fantasizing about raping someone?
"Research on rape proclivities and behavior suggests that only around 6 to 8 percent of males engage in actual rape/sexual assault across their lifetime, but around 40 to 60 percent of males report fantasies of it, or of forcing a person into sex," Dr. Ley writes. "UCLA researcher Neil Malamuth's work suggests that there is a small group of men, perhaps around 5 to 7 percent, who are at risk of engaging in sexual violence by virtue of their predispositions, and that things like violent media (such as porn or perhaps videogames) may increase the chances those men will act violently. But, the important thing is that it is the predisposing characteristics, such as antisocial personality, misogyny, substance use, mental illness, which really drive the risk. Violent media serves a very small part."
I reached out to SexLab Defeat's creator, Goubo, to get his perspective. He tells me that he began working on the mod as a way to teach himself programming and that his version is actually a port of an already existing mod called Defeat. "Rape fantasies are absolutely not something I would enjoy in real life in any way really," he writes. "[Actual rape] is something that disgusts me and [shocks] me like every normal person ... but at the end of the day my brain can make the difference between fake and reality. That's the whole point and judging from the popularity of my mod I guess I'm not alone. It is a fantasy and it stays that way. It's just a taboo one that people have a hard time discussing."
Kimy suggesting that exploring sexual violence in fiction might be necessary is an interesting argument. During my research, I also spoke with Dr. Chris Rose and Dr. Victoria Beck, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. They are in the process of publishing a study that measures what impact, if any, exposure to sexual violence in videogames, primarily Grand Theft Auto 5, has on a person. Their preliminary findings weren't what they expected. "What was actually happening was [the test subject's] rape myths and their attitudes about victim blaming were getting better," Dr. Rose says.
After five seasons, the show was cancelled on August 27, 2014, as a direct result of Hayden's arrest on various sexual charges. On April 7, 2017, Hayden was convicted on two counts of aggravated rape and one count of forcible rape.[2] On May 11, 2017, Hayden was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years in prison to be served consecutively, for rape of two girls between ages of 11 and 13. 2ff7e9595c
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