Web Game Lets Children Give Out Virtual Condoms

A new online game named My Minx that allows users to give virtual characters contraceptives and adopt children is raising eyebrows in the U.K., but the game's creator tells ABCNews.com the critics either haven't played the game or are misinformed.

"There's a lot of misinformation out there about who our target audience is," said Christopher Brown, head of London-based Blighty Arts, the creator of the game. "This isn't a game for children and there's nothing to indicate that kids are playing this game."

Brown said the average age of players who register to play the online game is 19 years old, and that most of the players on the site are older than 30.

My Minx has rattled British media and at least one parents group by allowing players to clothe their virtual women in lingerie and other revealing outfits and to purchase "trophy orphans" that are named after children already adopted by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

The adoption clinic in a virtual "Style City" features girls called Pax and Maddox, and a boy named Zahara after Angelina Jolie's children. The adoption agency on the site also has a David Banda, four, and Mercy, five, of Malawi, apparently modeled after Madonna's adopted children.

There is also a Mongolian girl called Jamiyan, which appears to be based on actor Ewan McGregor's Mongolian 4-year-old daughter.

Players also can adopt children from earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Once adoption fees have been paid, players can outfit their new children in stylish designer wear and then try to sell image rights for them to celebrity magazines.