TheGrimLord: This gets into the violence in video games argument though. You're using six thousand words to explain the fact that you think people who play these games might be interested in taking advantage of real people. Well, that isn't the case at all. In fact, many of them aren't even interested in real people or find them abhorrent. The term for this as coined by a man in Japan who married a lifesize hologram of Hatsune Miku, is "fictosexual." Yes, it has a flag and everything. According to sexuality.wiki, Fictosexuals are people who would rather have sex with fictional characters from movies, books, computer games and visual novels as well as anime, rather than real people. It is a form of asexuality and very common in Japan. In fact, over ten thousand men have married fictional characters in Japan according to recent statistics.
As a matter of fact, you will put on a pair of glasses like the hyped Vitrue VR models that made 2.4 million on KS to spend time with that character, either in an AR or VR environment. Holograms also exist in Japan, so that technology will only become more affordable overtime. A lifesize hologram is 1k, which might sound like a bit to some, but it's cheap to others. As technology improves, people will be able to become even closer to fictional characters. And if you have feelings that deep for one or several of them, there is a very good chance that you won't want to even deal with another human in that regards. Some people only want 2D animated characters and that's it. I know, this is a lot to wrap your head around, but the man recently made a public statement about it and all the news sites have been mentioning it. Fictosexuality is a thing and some people would rather just have the avatar and a teledildonics device. The game, Treasures Of Nadia just got updated to work with teledildonics devices, so this is just going to be part of society now.
Honestly, whatever helps someone who doesn't have a steady partner to channel their impulses in such a way that they don't go out and rape someone else (or otherwise engage in rape-adjacent behavior) or worse, shoot a bunch of people in frustration, I'm for.
It would be even better if we provided a better social framework to make match-making easier for more people (dating apps s*ck at this, imho, there should be better ways), but in the absence of that, some kind of fallback to mitigate potential frustration is always helpful (and realistically, there will always be a segment of the population that isn't getting any even under optimal circumstances).
You can say what you will about Japan, they must be doing some things right, because their number of rape cases is very low. Personally, that's a metric I'm very interested in when gauging how successfully a given culture channels sexuality.
