I started thinking about this idea when I was talking to Tyler. I was on a spree of asking random questions he never really knows the answer to, but he does his best to explain it to me. He was playing Call of Duty Ghosts on his new PS4 after Christmas and the extreme violence in this game is absurd, I mean truly. There are headshots, you're stabbing people in major arteries, up close and in very high definition, even though it's animated, its disturbing.
it is rated M for mature, which is equivalent to R for movies, you have to be 17 to buy this game and is suggested for those above 17 (but parents buy this game for their kids without even thinking about it).
So getting to the question, I asked Tyler if there was a rating above M, like NC-17 for movies, and there is, it's AO, or adults only so 18+, which I feel would discourage parents more for buying a game for they're children, or at least do a little more research. There are 26 games in the US rated AO, All of them for sexual content. There is only one game on that list that is AO solely for the fact of Violence and Gore, which has a release date that was cancelled however was created at a time where graphics were much worse, this is the more violent image I could find, and isn't half as bad as the recently released Mortal Kombat
Thrill Kill-Rated AO
Mortal Kombat 2011- Rated M
Getting to my main point, violence seems to be so much more widely accepted for the younger audience, but god forbid they see a nipple.
I feel like violence should be taken considerably more seriously than nudity and sex. Violence doesn't have to exist, even though it probably will. But SEX, and the NAKED body will always exist as long as there are people. We're all naked under our clothes and most of us are a result of sex. Violence is so common place in video games, and especially games with multi-player, you know younger people are playing because there are boy who are on their headset whose voices haven't changed yet! and they're KILLING PEOPLE. If the argument for violence being okay in video games is that it's not real, then the same should be said for the human body and sex. It's not real either, so it's okay right?
I'm probably rambling at this point, but in a nutshell my idea for my thesis project is to take pictures of the naked body in everyday situations, where people expect to see you clothed, weather it be in a coffee shop, grocery shopping or just laying on the couch, where most people still wear some sort of clothing. This will probably require going to a nudist colony, because there are laws of public indecency, but I feel like this is important point to get across. I've already written this much about with doing minimal research, if I really took a whole semester to do research and execute this, it could be a really strong statement.
