http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/soar/Classes/494/talks/Ethics.pdf
This website states the negative effects of games that are violent. It gives examples of experiments that were conducted that showed an increase of aggression in people who were playing violent video games. People who played violent video games cheered and were excited for longer periods of time than people who played the non-violent games. The site also cites Anderson and Bushman's views of violent games. A & B believe video games increase aggressive thoughts, emotions, and actions while decreasing people's positive presocial actions. The article also gives examples of how people become addicted to video games and therefore neglect their duties in real life.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060704/reynolds_01.shtml
This article has more to do with sex in video games. The article states that it is bad for sex to be in video games because it introduces sex into children's lives who should be ignorant to sex and therefore would stay abstinent. The article also points out that if people are playing games that have sex in them, they will be more likely to engage in promiscuous behavior because sex will seem more accepted which will lead to consequences afterwards. The article states that game developers must take the necessacary actions to make sure games with sex in them stay out of the hands of children and stay with the adults that they were made for.
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Those are interesting articles. I picked articles dealing more with the games themselves, but the one's you chose have a different view dealing with violence and sex in games. It's cool you picked stuff that could help with the paper too!
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