Rape Definitions

My Definition:
Rape is an assault by a person involving sexual intercoursewith or sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent.

The state of Maryland's Definition:
Rape is the post-penetration withdrawal of consent negates initial consent for the purposes of sexual offense crimes and, when coupled with the other elements, may constitute the crime of rape. A woman can revoke her consent after intercourse begins.
http://www.freeratio.org/archive/index.php/t-187234.html

Though definitions vary, rape is defined in most jurisdictions as sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, by one person with or against another person without the consent of the victim.
The term sexual assault is closely related to rape. Some jurisdictions define "rape" to cover only acts involving penetration of the vagina, treating all other types of non-consensual sexual activity as sexual assault. Other jurisdictions define all non-consensual sexual activity to be rape. But the terminology varies, with some places using other terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

Why do people play games?

Why do people play games? 

Play is an activity done by both humans and animals. In the animal kingdom, play is part of growing up and learning how to control their bodies, hunt and co-operate. Human children need the protection of their parents for much longer and have a great number of skills to learn before they can take on the world.

 

In humans, play is not just confined to children as adults practise sports to develop and test skills that were useful to our caveman ancestors. Watching and supporting a team or athlete has a psychology all of its own. Adult humans also play games like chess that are purely intellectually competitive. Some computer games are vastly more complex to master than these ancient games. Other games like poker have varying elements of chance and skill and the motive to play them is for money.

 

Publishers usually ask if your game is fun? But are successful games really all that fun? Most games consist of very repetitive game play with a limited number of controls used to solve, more or less, the same task over and over again. How many games involve killing vast number of enemies by just pressing a fire button and moving a controller such as a joystick in two directions to control the position targeted? They are a metaphor for blowing up an enemy plane or saving the world from alien invasion. Like film movies, there is an element of suspension of disbelief at work. Computer games are safe as there is no risk of the enemy pilot or aliens actually hurting the player. The player merely risks having his character killed or losing the game, which he can restart. The player therefore unlike the real world has big element of control over this cyber-world. Many adult leisure activities do not appear to be all that fun such as boxing or braving the elements to catch fish in the early hours of the morning. (Would you like to be punched about the head and would it be fun?) Very complex psychology is behind peoples hobbies, why they play games, what is fun or what they get out of doing it.

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