Vocator Jarno: Lamentations of the Outraged

Lamentations of the Flame Princess have declared they Will pull all their product  from RPG drivethru in support of fellow publishers who get their adult content game products banned for offensive content.
This would be due to Changes to their offensive content policy after complaints about a product by Skorched Urf Games called the 'tournament of rapists' and yes the title is about the contents as Sarahdarkmagic's blog points out.
They talk about a blue line that isnt easily discerned in the RPG industry and how 'inclusiveness' is important in gaming.

The facts are this:
1. Not everything is required to be inclusive. We dont expect adult content to be cut so children can play it.
2. Yes there are vile things happening at the edges of our childhood game that harm it - a comic about sex between a halfling and a human comes to mind that crosses a certain blue line and I think the artist needs to be hit with a rock and dumped outside the walls of civilization to die in the desert - but that's just me.
3. The 'non existant blue line' is real. Its called the law. So yes or no decisions are not left to publishers, market place providers, or critics. Its left to a judge in a court room who relies on the laws to which we ideally give our consent - 'we the people' and all that.

The offending product could have been labled Sa-mu-rei: the protoindoeuropean roots of the word 'Samurai'. Unlike the modern Japanese warrior the sa-mu-rei were (by the scale of three phonetic build) an ancient indo-iranian martial art form that refered to a fighting technique in which the warrior psycologically attacks their opponent by making sexually suggestive noises, and even rape - which homosexuality being something you would be expelled from early 'civililization' for would get you a rock to the head and your ass dumped outside the walls of civilization. It would be ultimately a historically focused product - and something you would watch in a cinema.
What of 'Tournament of Rapists'? Until a judge says otherwise, it must ultimately be allowed to stay inside the walls of civilization...but even a walled civilization can be a prison for those forced to tolerate one another.

As Lee Marvin would say: you dont need to love thy neighbour, you leave the bastard alone.