GTA and Porn

So this whole GrandTheftAuto "controversy" is giving me a lot of giggles. This is what I know about it thus far:

Rockstar's programmers were originally thinking of putting a sex scene in the game. Before they even finished the scene it was decided they weren't going to use it. For whatever reason (probably laziness) the programmers left the scene in, but made it so you couldn't access it in the game.

It was not in the game play. You could not access it. It wasn't even a finished scene, the guy had his pants on, the girls breasts looked like triangles of death. Rated R movies have more sex than this unfinished sex scene had.

Well, someone illegally hacked into the game and found this unfinished scene. Delighted, they posted a hack online for people to access. People, probably young men with WAY too much time on their hands, got the hack and installed it (which is also illegal) into the game.

Someone in the media got wind of the hack. This lead to certain parental groups getting up in arms. "GTA is a porn show disguised as a game!" Big retailers such as Walmart, Target, CircuitCity, and Bestbuy got scared and stopped selling the game.

Now, my little readers, think this through carefully.

This was a rated M game. It was not meant for children. You could not access the scene without a hack. That means that the average young/old adult would never have known it was there.

If you picked up GTA and looked, you'd notice a big Mature 17+ M rating. Then, if you'd flipped it over you would read the same thing, plus (in big readable letters) a description of the game. (This is the exact rating description on the box: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs. Bold Added)

GTA is a pretty immoral game, whether it had sex in it or not. Yet the big retailers only NOW decided that selling the game was "bad". How is a sex scene you couldn't access so much worse than stealing cars, killing people and cops, and generally glorifying bad behavior?

Now it's "adults only". Which means that basically the same people who were buying it before will STILL be buying it because it's suppose to be a game for adults. And all those under aged children who weren't suppose to be playing the game originally but did anyway, will STILL be playing the game.

This hasn't in any way affected the game or it's players. The retailers aren't really doing much more than making themselves look "good" to those ignorant folk who don't pay attention to what games are out. (God of War, for instance, is much worse on the sex than GTA is.)

Such fools the common non-gamers are! Don't you know that there are much worse games than GTA being sold? And don't you know that Walmart and all the others are still selling them?