The End of Hentai Games As We Know It?

[The|A-Pok]

The EOCS adult game censorship regulations imposed in response to feminist criticism have finally been revealed in detail, and it seems they are shockingly draconian, practically banning all pictures and text which stray from the missionary position.
Not just rape and loli are now banned; all group sex, kinkiness and anything else which might cause trouble or offence is banned, whether in pictures or text; it is difficult to characterise such a sweeping ban as anything but a complete victory for opponents of freedom of expression and sexuality.
The full list of what is now completely off limits to adult games published through traditional channels:

(Some terms do not have clear English equivalents)

Rape
Loli
Gang Rape
Assault
Brutality
“Reverse” Rape
Girl
Adultery
“Reverse” Assault
Compulsion
Gangbang
Student Council
Bestiality
Bondage
Coercion
Train Molestation
Enjo Kousai (Prostitution)

Incest
Torture
Binding
Pregnancy
Violation
Slaves
Pregnant Women
Confinement
Conception

The ban covers all pictures, text, packaging and even the names of the publishers themselves.
Euphemisms are also banned, and the list will be added to as required. It seems the only major omission is homosexuality; it is also not clear whether the ban on pregnancy and conception means games must now feature obligatory contraception…
The source is a publisher quoting the EOCS guidelines for the benefit of their own partners, so it is still not a direct announcement, but seems as close to one as can be expected. This also confirms the previous publisher misgivings that a game featuring nekomimi and consensual pregnancy would be banned under the new regulations.
Details of how this may affect publishers and retail channels are covered in the previous articles, suffice to say it seems the retail trade in such games will be undergoing a severe contraction.
With such a spectacular success in censoring so broad an array of deviancy, it seems only a matter of time before a similar assault is launched against anime and manga, to say nothing of the wider pornography industry…

thx 2 sankaku complex

[akibastyle]

yea.... my wife was crushed when she found out neko girls were no longer allowed. I told her at least I bought her Let's Meow Meow! - God love her cuteness.... No more harem games as well? What's next, they gonna ban sex altogether in bishojo???

[welovehina]

this is some real bullsh1t here...
i guess that fans will have to do all the work...

[y8ycgl]

hehehe there will always be things like torrents and the internet in which you can get such things! including games! as long as there is a single country that such material is sold in then it can make its way anywhere via internet. it will be harder but such things will eventualy just break...

[demonicMC]

Originally Posted by y8ycgl

hehehe there will always be things like torrents and the internet in which you can get such things! including games! as long as there is a single country that such material is sold in then it can make its way anywhere via internet. it will be harder but such things will eventualy just break...

I dont think that's what's going to happen. If we are talking about adult visual novels and such I can say that if not all. most of them are produced in Japan. When a game is made it first has to pass through a group of people who judge it according to laws. I am sorry for the simplicity of my text I am not english so I cant write very well. So if someone sees that there is a violation then the game is automaticaly banned. So it cant even go on sale properly. Much less be distributed by the company on the net cause that would mean zero profit on them.... God how much I love Neko Girls....I have lost them forever....

[desertleo]

Does this mean that hentai games that are already available to the public will be recalled and any sale of such games in foreign countries will result in some sort of ban as well? I find this all rather concerning.

[masoj]

Impossible to recall games. Plus a lot of stuff is digital downloads now.

[jaiger]

thats too much of a loss for the economy!!

[Devspar_Zero]

As long as there's demand, there's always a supply...

[shiroii-yuri]

This is a very upsetting event...no wonder I haven't been able to find many ooh-shiny-just-released h-games online...