10 Most Offensive Portrayals Of Men In Gaming

3. Every Male Character - The Slab Of Meat (Duel Love)

While researching male nudity in video games, I was greeted with the bizarre Japanese video game Duel Love, essentially a visual novel where you play a girl who is trying to hook up with boys from the local fight club. The end goal of the game is to form a relationship with one of the boys, but it's the mini-games which totally turn the whole sexism argument in video games on its head. There's fairly innocuous things like treating their post-fight injuries, but then things escalate to wiping sweat from their chests, and eventually even watching them in the shower. In a way I suppose it's refreshing that it's the male body being objectified for once in a video game, but at the same time, is it really any better? Granted, the game is a very niche Japanese product that most Westerners won't ever have access to, but still...
 
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