OK to game with nudity scene

OK to game with nudity scene: THE latest add-on to the crime game Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) features a 15-second scene of full-frontal nudity by a male character - and the Media Development Authority (MDA) is all right with it. The add-on, titled The Lost And Damned, premiered on Tuesday as the first game expansion available exclusively on the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. Online reports say that the nude scene comes a third of the way into the 15- to 20-hour-long game, which allows players to take on the role of criminals. In that segment, the male character, who is having a massage, turns around and players can see his digital bits in full view as he speaks. It is the first instance of full-frontal nudity in a mass-market game, though other games have featured half-naked women or off-screen sex. Mr Ernest Khoo, head of video games and media content at MDA, said whether full-frontal male nudity is allowed depends on the context in which it occurs. In this expansion pack, he said, the depiction is 'non-sexual and can hence fall within the M18 rating', which is also the rating given to the original GTA IV. This means that only those aged 18 and above can buy the game and its expansion pack.