GTA 5 Online players are virtually raping each other, should we be OK with this?

As Grand Theft Auto V Online hackers get better at modifying the game's code to do their bidding, instances of nude avatars running around naked raping others in vineyards are on the up.

Several players have reported others coming up to them in-game, locking themselves to their characters and initiating pelvic thrust animations from which there is no escape, with videos of the online 'attacks' being uploaded to YouTube.

The trend was labelled "disturbing" by The Huffington Post and the videos "too inappropriate" to embed by The Telegraph, but in a gaming series that has for years seen players gleefully maim, decapitate and bludgeon each other, is this outrage justified?


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...k-9667198.html

I see several issues here:

One is the quite practical one that it is annoying to have your game ruined by some hacker attacking a character on to your character which you cannot then get rid of.

Secondly, they do it mostly with females, and if you have been raped, this would definitely destroy at least your game!

Thirdly, is it disturbing in the light of recent real world rapes like the Steubenville case and others where the rape went on the net and the victim was hounded into suicide. It does not, to me, seem a joke.

But then people argue that it is no worse than the destruction and murder going on in the games anyway.

What to think of this?