From: DSAutoResponder | #029are you saying that just because it could happen, it absolutely needs to be included in the game narrative
It doesn't need to be included, but why can't they include it if they want to? It's ok to constantly threaten our video game characters with painful gory and violent deaths, but not rape? Certainly rape isn't worse or is hardly worse than having your head ripped off or being impaled multiple times.
Try making a game where there's a threat of a man getting raped. Advertise that fact almost a year before it comes out. See the kind of reaction and sales you get.
I'd bet a large sum of money that the reaction would be "Why does that need to be in a video game", and the sales would be abysmal.