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From sfgate.com:

“A state lawyer tried Wednesday to revive California’s ban on selling violent video games to minors by arguing, to an apparently skeptical federal appeals court, that mayhem should be judged by the same obscenity standards as explicit sex.

Games in which players score points by killing, maiming, raping or dismembering human figures are “intrinsically harmful to the kids that play them,” Deputy Attorney General Zackery Morazzini told the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at a hearing here. Young game players develop aggressive thoughts and become desensitized to violence, he said.

Just as the sale of explicit pornography to minors is banned, the state should be allowed to establish an adults-only category of ultra-violent video games, as a 2005 law would have done, Morazzini said.”

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