If you’ve gotten through the list and still haven’t found a dealbreaker, you may want to think about getting some attractive underclothes soon. So here are some reasons not to have sex in Second Life. It may not be a good idea for Second Life to become your permanent sex life, because then some of the central emotional connections in your life have to be filtered through your computer, and ultimately that’s pretty limiting. My sense is that Second Life sex for most people is a temporary substitute for Real Life sex or a place to indulge fantasies that don’t fit. You may not like virtual sex, or it may be a bad fit for your lifestyle. I do not advocate that sex in Second Life is for everybody. But there were so many things to say about not having sex in Second Life that I felt like I ought to make an entry of those first. No, the thing I always forget is that the reasons to have sex in Second Life aren’t at all evident to a lot of people-so I started writing about why some of us have sex in Second Life (in some cases, um, kind of a lot of it). Oh, not having sex makes perfect sense to me, because in Second Life, not having sex ever is not only possible, it’s a really good idea for a lot of people…whereas in Real Life, it seems to me, it’s a little less optional. but somewhere in a strange online landscape my discarded avatar is still slumped on a park bench in a digital space that looks something like Barcelona.It’s always a little disorienting when I remind myself that some Second Life Residents not only don’t have sex in Second Life, they don’t see why in the world others of us would. I logged out and logged back into real life. My investigative alter-ego had done his bit. I arranged to meet one of CEOP's agents in virtual Barcelona, where I passed on the virtual list of "child-play" zones in Second Life. Here was a window into the worst aspects of depraved minds. In a second report I visited more, equally shocking islands. "Never mind," said one, and handed me a list of 50 other "child-play" areas within Second Life. The usual individuals were still turning up, unsure of what had happened. That day I changed my avatar's appearance and went back to the now empty domain. Lindon Labs, the creators of the Second Life platform, closed down Wonderland the day after our report went out but the story did not end there. "They can't pretend it's only their avatar doing it because who is controlling that avatar?" "It will fuel their desire to do it for real," said the unit's head Jim Gamble. The police's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) unit was horrified by what I'd discovered. It was a place where potential paedophiles with the beginning of a dangerous obsession could develop it, role-play it and gain acceptance of it from others. If you viewed an image in Second Life, it stayed in Second Life. There were no email address, no real names and no electronic trail on your computer. Virtual worlds are secret places where you can hide warped fantasies but also ring-fence real images and even video footage of child abuse. I was as close to seeing inside the mind of a paedophile as I ever wanted to be.
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