Eugene Provenzo, Professor, University of Miami

Author:Video Kids

"Video games are the first entry or first experience that kids have with computing. Video games are computers and what I found was that girls would talk about being very interested in video games and playing them, but they would say things like, 'Well, I like video games and I like com- puters, but I don't like the content of the games.'

"Of the 47 games, 13 had as their primary theme the murder, abduction or implied rape of a woman. It was specifically violence against women and there was no corresponding emphasis about violence against men in the same way."