Japan has given the world many wonderful things; all sorts of scientific and technological advances, entire movements of art and film, pretty much the whole world of video gaming itself and best of all, sushi. Japanese culture has always been more accepting of nudity and sexual content than our own society, which despite how many years have passed still has a heavy puritanical basis.

If you’re familiar at all with anime you’ve probably heard of some of the more sexually explicit things involving school girls and tentacles. That’s just the tip of the iceberg however as a PC game has recently caused a big ruckus stateside. It’s called RapeLay and you can figure out pretty much everything you need to know from the title. It’s recently been pulled from Amazon and eBay, but anti violence activists are still up in arms about it.

Illusion, the software company that released the game in 2006 has stated on their website that the game is only available in Japan, but the activists are still concerned that games like this won’t do anything but harm. The jury is still out on whether or not the media affects people’s actions, but if there’s even the slightest chance that it’s as the alarmists say, the thought of a game like this being out there is incredibly perilous.