THE makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are facing an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission after it emerged that explicit sex scenes were hidden inside the popular game’s software.
The discovery provoked a wave of condemnation from politicians, including an accusation by Republican congressman Fred Upton that GTA’s publisher, Take-Two, had “blatantly circumvented the rules in order to peddle sexually explicit material to our youth”.
But it is not the first time technology has been used to offer people a sneaky peek at sex. The “adult entertainment” industry embraced video cassettes, DVDs and the web more quickly…
