Saudi Arabia Bans Shoe-Shopping Game For Sounding Too Sexy


Shoe Wars is a simple little iPhone jumper about a woman looking for shoes, an activity many would consider a blissful experience. A little too blissful if you ask Saudi Arabia.

The relatively harmless free iPhone app features a woman carrying a shopping bag jumping from platform to platform in a never-ending quest to secure the latest pumps. As she leaps she makes exertion noises that could, if you twist your mind a little, be construed as sexual.

According to the game’s official website, authorities in Saudi Arabia felt the sounds emanating from the on-screen character were “‘too sexual’ and may cause cultural offence”.

A new version of the app will be released in Saudi Arabia next month with the offensive sounds removed.

Saudi bans video game over “sexual” sounds [Arabian Business]


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