PORN-influenced heroines in video games with “impossibly big breasts” and unreal bodies are harming a generation of Australian children.

The stark warning comes from concerned body image experts, who warn the increasingly graphic sexual poses and depictions of women in mainstream video games fuel harmful stereotypes and body dysmorphia.

Among the toxically augmented characters in highly suggestive outfits that have burst onto video game screens are Rainbow Mika and Laura Matsuda from Street Fighter V, and Honoka from the Dead or Alive franchise.

media_camera Laura Matsuda looking ridiculously busy in Street Fighter V

media_camera And this one is so bad we’ve decided to cover her up.

“Even when women are depicted as kicking arse, they have to be ‘hot’ doing it,” youth and women’s advocate Melinda Tankard Reist said.

“Attention is drawn to her sexual characteristics, with tight clothing emphasising large, surgically enhanced breasts. It is almost assumed that boys wouldn’t want to play games without sexy women in them.

“We don’t really see strong women depicted without being sexualised first.”

According to Sydney psychologist Sarah McMahon, director of BodyMatters, “these images set up impossible expectations”.

media_camera The original: Lara Croft in Tomb Raider Legend.

media_camera Unrealistic pose: Nina Williams from Tekken 7.

media_camera Cleavage on display: Cortana from Halo 4.

media_camera Borderline farcical. R.Mika, Street Fighter V

“The women in these video games have impossibly big breasts, they are not athletic,” said Ms McMahon, who specialises in treating patients with eating disorders and body shame issues.

“It adds to a growing culture of self-surveillancing, where girls are watching and worrying about how they look.”

Salvation Army research shows only 16 per cent of Australian girls are happy with their body and weight. And The Butterfly Foundation spokeswoman Sarah Spence said the depiction of women in video games was “becoming more graphic” and negatively affecting boys as well as girls.

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“It’s more than just an issue of body esteem and body image,” said Ms Spence, whose organisation supports people affected by eating disorders and negative body image. “It’s very much about over-sexualising women.”

La Trobe University’s senior research fellow Dr Liz Conor said there was a wider issue culturally about unrealistic body images.

“Why is the fantasy of female action figures essentially soft porn?” Dr Conor said. “It’s sexist and values their f ... ability over everything else about them.”