the politicians want to ban things they don't understand & that makes heavy metal and violent sexy video games easy targets So IMHO

politicians: No banning, politicians understand them
boy bands: No banning, "girls like them so how bad could they be?" the politicians may think.
Carrot Top: No banning, "Carrots are good for you." one may think.

Exactly; I never understood that ban mentality. ( And Germany has a history of banning any number of things, including video games, so I'm no stranger to this topic. ) But I guess actually getting to the source of a problem ( if there is one to begin with ) takes a lot more effort. So instead they just make up some new laws, and ban or censor a few things. That may or may not solve any real world problems, but at least they have an alibi and can pretend they're doing something. And of course it gains them support from various political groups who approve of those bans.

The problem with the UN discussing the ban is that it kind of undermines all their other points too:

"...employment equality, illegal dismissal of women due to pregnancy and childbirth; sexual harassment in the workplace; reintegration into school textbooks of issue of “comfort women”; compensation for women with disabilities sterilised against their will; effect on women, particularly pregnant women, of health programmes introduced after the Fukushima nuclear disaster; difference in pension benefits for men and women, poverty among older women. "

Now I don't know anything about the severity of these things in Japan, given the fact that they sound serious and that the UN is pushing to have a talk about them makes think "Yeah, maybe they should look into that".

But if these things get lumped in with a ban on "Sexual Violence in games and cartoons" and don't even manage to be the priority talking point, it makes me think that the UN might be full of shit and next time they try to rally for something actually serious they get dismissed as "the chumps who tried to ban porn".

No one thinks this is a South Korean conspiracy? I mean check where Ban Ki Moon is from..........or what kind of media is banned in SK (except porn; 'cus evangelicals). It all makes sense.

Done. :D

You hit it! That's exactly the reason. It's the cheapest and most effortless way to simulate activity.
I mean, real crime prevention and fighting means, money, manpower, resources. And not the least - becoming competent about the topic.

Banning RapeLay and tentacle porn are obviously a lot easier and who would complain? That would be like admitting owning or even liking this stuff...

In the end it's all just populism -- politicians pick an easy target to attack and defame, in this case video game(r)s, in order to boost their own public image, and gain the support of the average voter or specific political groups. In Germany at least, video games and the gaming community have been the target of these attacks for decades. On the bright side, the games industry has grown so much that even German politicians have to take it seriously, if only for the money that's in it. Remember the days when pretty much any violent game used to be banned or heavily censored, no matter how ridiculous and harmless those games seem now? Nowadays you can freely buy uncensored versions of titles such as Witcher 3 or the new Mortal Kombat games, and I suspect that's at least in part because of the profit/taxes and jobs generated by the modern games industry.