SC Upholds 1st Amendment

[Rev. Rye]

But I still have to say, I agree with the dissenting justice when he questioned why it is fine to let a 13 year-old play a game in which he kidnaps, binds and tortures an innocent woman but abhorrent for him to see a real naked woman in a magazine.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/...V9seN%2BNd

Yes, if there's one thing I find insane about America, it's the fact that we find ourselves much more willing to get into moral panics over sex than something like violence, and that it's the panics about sex that we find the biggest need to try to solve.

I think Zardoz said it best: The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!

So in the USA, do games have age-restrictions at all? I mean, here in the UK, it's illegal to sell a game with an "18" certificate to anyone under that age; same goes for games with "15" and "12" certificates.

Yes, there are.
Ratings without Restrictions:
E- Everyone [Equivalent: G or U]
E10-Everyone 10 and Up [Equivalent: PG]
T- Teen [Equivalent: PG-13 or 12/15]

Ratings with Restrictions:
M- Mature [Equivalent: R or 15/18]
AO-Adult Only [Equivalent: NC-17 or R18]