A GM at a gaming convention in England ran a game, billed as 18+, where the premise is that the characters wake up naked in the back of a van, handcuffed together, with burning asses, and are unceremoniously tossed out and told to run by men with guns. The GM's stated intent was that the knockout drugs had made the characters explosively shit themselves, which is why they were naked and had ass pain, and were going to be hunted for sport by rich assholes. A player interpreted the scenario as the characters all having been raped, complained to the convention, and got the GM banned despite years of having attended without incident.
I'm not gonna lie, setting up a scenario where characters have all shit their pants is pretty magical realmy in and of itself even without the rape, guy said he just found the mental image of four naked poo-covered guys having to scamper through town for safety an amusing one, which I can sorta get, but still. Anyways, RPGnet was quickly on the case, calling for him to be arrested and put on the sex offender list. For... imaginary character rape in a game with only adults present? Who even knows.
The GM then gave an interview to explain that he'd never intended for rape to be part of the scenario and that there was a fundamental misunderstanding involved. Someone on RPGnet posted a link to the GM's interview so people could see both sides and come to their own conc-
