Johnmourby: If you are accusing me of having some sort of agenda you'd best come out and say it. I've said nothing to the effect of wanting things banned. I think it's rather sad that saying "This is bad and I don't like it" is automatically interpreted by some people as censorship. If I wanted stuff banned 1 I'd just come out and say it 2 I'd say it the government before dropping it on the web.
And I'm certainly not doing this to prove myself the most anti-rape. If I was I'd advocate it be removed from all games, not just horror. I'm doing this because for me Rape and horror mixing is a sensitive area and I want to know if people agree or disagree with me (Even if I don't like what I hear).
I never brought up censorship, you did. Do not go putting words into my mouth and then attack the straw man you put up. I'll be honest, this is a stupid topic.
The answer to the OP is very very simple. Yes! If that is the vision of the artist. Period.
Its strange that people can be mutilated in a meat grinder, have appendages chopped off, have blood spray across the room, chopped up with a chainsaw, yet rape is the sacred cow that doesn't belong in the genre?
Horror movies are specifically intended to produce said horror in its viewers. It's certainly natural that rape would be included. In fact, its totally correct that it is.
Now if you wanted to talk about the exaggeration of rape in media culture which seems to portray stranger rapists waiting around every corner for a victim and how this is not the norm. How the media shouldn't be promoting this fear-mongering, but that is a different topic. The truth is rape occurs far less often than the media portrays it based on exaggerated and abused statistics. Most rapes are not committed by strangers (the same way almost all child abductions are a relative), yet the media presentation makes it appear there are millions of deranged people out in the world waiting to commit atrocities. So its no surprise that rape has gotten the stigma that it is somehow so much worse than death and dismemberment.