For the magazine I am creating, I have decided to write a confessional article on people who have either been ‘cheated on’ or vice versa on Second Life. Of course, this was never going to be easy. How can people cheat on their real life partners with someone in SL, if we are all but pixels in SL?
Anyway, back to the story. I posted a question on the forum at http://www.secondlife.com to see if anybody would like to be interviewed.
The response was INCREDIBLE; I was so pleased, something like 1500 or more views and 75 replies. My momentary pleasure however was soon abated. Why you ask? (I am giving you no choice in the asking by the way.) Because these people wanted to discuss amongst themselves the very nature of my question, not to volunteer for interviewing.
Here are a few of the more interesting responses:
Apple Pinkney
'Is there anything wrong with telling you this is none of your business? You sound like one of the way too many reporters who can't think of anything original to write so you come up with another way to slam the Internet'.
Well I suppose that’s all fair I suppose, but slamming the internet? Sounds like you wanted to slam someone else Apple.
Conifer Dada
'I'm a bit of a flirt sometimes and am not averse to wearing my birthday suit from time to time in public but I'm just having fun and being a bit of a tease I'm not looking for any close relationships in SL just friends and fame!!!!!'
It’s nice that people volunteer this information.
Conan Godwin
'Bumping pixels isn't sex, and I feel sorry for anyone with such an unsatisfactory real life sexlife that they would equate the two together. So the answer is no, no one has ever cheated on their real life partner in SL because that is physically impossible.Cyber "sex"( for want of a better word) is more like co-authoring a porno script together than actually having sex as such.'
That’s that then Conan, clearly the discussion is over.
All in all, I had a lot of brilliant feedback, and some people have offered to talk to me regarding the issue. I think I am going to interview quite a few people to get a few different perspectives. I do think am gonna use this forum from now on to get people for interviewing. It’s much handier than walking around for hours in SL, that’s for sure, my virtual legs were beginning to hurt.
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"I feel sorry for anyone with such an unsatisfactory real life sexlife that they would equate the two together."
Ha ha. Well, I can say from first hand experience that Sarah doesn't have an unsatisfactory sex-life. I remember that night when Jack and I shared a bed together and one thing led to another... He didn't earn the nickname Casanova Dynamite from drawing!
It seems a lack of imagination that to believe that the only way one can "cheat" is to have sex in RL. If it feels like cheating, it's cheating. It's all about the emotions.
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