{"id":19,"date":"2003-06-13T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=19"},"modified":"2003-06-13T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T11:14:43","slug":"moral-standard-weirdness-violence-ok-but-no-sex-vs-sex-ok-but-no-violence-puritan-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/06\/13\/moral-standard-weirdness-violence-ok-but-no-sex-vs-sex-ok-but-no-violence-puritan-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral standard weirdness: Violence ok but no sex VS. sex ok but no violence; Puritan Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Times has an <a href= \"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/technology\/la-fi-german9jun09,0,6239705.story?coll=la-headlines-technology\" >interesting article<\/a> on the standards of game censorship in different countries: How sex in video games is off-limits in the US but violence is OK, whereas sex is OK in Germany but violence is not. (Famously, the human soldiers in StarCraft became androids in the German version and their red blood became some kind of green guck.) Germany of course has a special history, but there is a general tendency (exception below) where sex in Northern [Protestant] Europe is seen as less awful than violence, whereas in the US it&#8217;s the other way around. Which is one of those situations where Northern Europe is clearly right. (Thanks to Zhan Li for the link.)<\/p>\n<p>In related news, the Norwegian department of culture wants NRK, the Norwegian state television network, to remove two, well, sexually oriented &#038; wildly ironic games from their web site. (<a href= \"http:\/\/www.vg.no\/pub\/vgart.hbs?artid=63421\" >Norwegian language article<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article.jhtml?articleID=563476\" >short English article<\/a>.) Feel free to see for yourself, the language barrier shouldn&#8217;t pose a problem: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.nrk.no\/programmer\/radio\/are_og_odin\/2782245.html\">1<\/a> and <a href= \"http:\/\/nrk.no\/programmer\/radio\/karate\/2814168.html \">2<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere in Boston, everything bad (bars closing early and such) gets blamed on the Puritans, and people tend to assume that Scandinavia is this wildly free and progressive place, but Norway clearly has its own kind of puritanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Times has an interesting article on the standards of game censorship in different countries: How sex in video games is off-limits in the US but violence is OK, whereas sex is OK in Germany but violence is not. (Famously, the human soldiers in StarCraft became androids in the German version and their red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/06\/13\/moral-standard-weirdness-violence-ok-but-no-sex-vs-sex-ok-but-no-violence-puritan-norway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moral standard weirdness: Violence ok but no sex VS. sex ok but no violence; Puritan Norway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}