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By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide to Sexuality since 2005

When Virtual Sex Pushes Boundaries

Thursday April 13, 2006

Daniel Terdiman, a writer for CNET News.com has a great piece on problems cropping up in the adult-only virtual world, Second Life. It seems that some players are engaging in "age play" a form of sexual fantasy role play that in some way involves age as a factor in the scene and this is raising the eyebrows of both some players, and of the creators of the game.

The piece does an excellent job of raising the issues without resorting to any hysterical fear mongering. I'm sure it won't be the last we hear of it either.

Read more - CNET News.com: Phony kids, virtual sex

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January 31, 2008 at 4:43 pm
(1) digitalmediaworld says:

Does virtual sex qualify as adultery? This is a topic discussed on my blog

feel free to visit and add your thoughts

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