Bestiality in Second Life
“Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on ‘Broadly Offensive’ behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life in March. The Second Life Herald (NSFW) goes on to ask whether consenting adults dressing up like animals and partaking in virtual sex with each other or with human shaped avatars (virtual bestiality) constitutes broadly offensive behavior. ‘Furries’ have a long history in Second Life, and new users are presented with the option of taking an animal form when first setting up their avatars. Second Life fans will argue that sex-based play in Second Life only makes up a small portion of Second Life, but it remains a popular pursuit; the popular destination lists for Second Life regularly feature nightclubs and dedicated sex spots (or as is sometimes the case, nightclubs that are sex spots as well). The arguments for and against this sort of behavior can and does result in heated debate; on one hand what consenting adults do virtually with one and other should be strictly up to them, on the other hand these acts aren’t being done in complete privacy but in a virtual world were others may be exposed to it.” — TechCrunch (US)
(Thanks for the link to Pummage, who wrote: “What is it about virtual bestality that is done in private areas of the Second Life game that the world seems to think it should be banned?”)
The answer to Pummage’s question is obvious. To the conservative, it does not matter where bestiality occurs, online or offline. The representation of it, as created in Second Life, is apparently as offensive as the actuality of it, committed out in a barn somewhere. You can trot out all the obvious arguments about adults and consent and the crucial difference between fantasy and reality — but to the conservative, none of that matters. Sex with animals is sex with animals is wrong.
Of course, this is a unique situation in that Linden Labs is a privately held company. Second Life is their domain and they can issue whatever laws and statutes they want. They have no obligation to tolerate bestiality or tennis or charity bingo. They offer the user a service and it is well within their rights to say, “Hey, if you want to play in our world, you have to play by our rules.”
Perhaps the more disturbing thing — and this pertains to the recent Craigslist story as well — is that a private corporation has put itself into a position where it can make influential pronouncements about what does or does not constitute “perverse” behavior. Ideally, morality should hew somewhere close to common sense. In practice, it ends up being shaped and formed — and malformed — by influential groups. Typically these are religions or governments, but now there are corporations too who are able to proclaim what is acceptable and what is taboo. Will it not be psychologists but marketers and businessmen who compile the psychopathia sexualis of the future?
Techcrunch is linking to an article the suggests Linden MAY crack down on bestiality. That hypothesis is incorrect. They do not have any public plans to do so, and they are saying they would not do so:
http://lindenlab.com/pressroom/releases/21_04_09
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30346911/
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4417&task=knowledge&questionID=6032
This is essentially a “no sex in the champagne room” sort of rule. They are not cracking down on furries. They are trying to make a safe space for furries, just not where everyone else has to watch.
uuummm we are talking about adults in a video game pretending to be animals,furries or underage and then simulating sexual experiences ONLINE NOT IRL, soooo no actual sex of any physical kind actually took place.
so no kids or animals where or are being hurt….i’m sorry but that doesn’t constitute a crime to me.
just a group of fat middle aged men in their parents basement jacking off to second life porn.
Vitual pedos, virtual beastiality, I think the word here is ‘virtual.’ Leave these pervs alone, it’s just masturbating in front of a screen for christ sake.
I agree. They are just pretending to have sex, having sex as animals and/or with other animals on the game (probably masturbating while doing it); no actual animals are being violated and no children are getting hurt. Let those dudes alone!
A large amount of their trade is down to such persons, this was thanks to their special graphics and avatar customization, which was top-spec at the time of its release, before DirectX 10 was around.
SL is still a much favoured place by such people, who just do it because their SL friends do it.
People who use SL 24/7 are often people who have too much time on their hands to even use the slow-loading (for some) 3D online community, in the first place, and those who use it are actually often the underaged, ‘deviants’, or networkers.
I can reassure you, the furry fandom, therianthropic fandom, and bestiality fandom are not the only ‘fandoms’/'communities’ that use SL for worldwide networking purposes, there are all sorts of ‘perversions’, ‘paraphilias’, ‘fetishisms’, and ‘orientations’ of sexuality and moral/social ’strangeness’ that use SL; some things that I didn’t know existed, exist there; it is like the world hub for hobbies, interests, and sexuality.
I used SL to undertake such research, myself, in 2007, for the purpose of reviewing and researching such communities, and it was a great research tools for hidden groups and society, that even I, myself, found truly grotesque; it amazed me how large the numbers of their active members actually were, for each ‘group’ and ‘community’; I think the bare minimum was about 20 members.
I think it is fair to say ‘Second Life’ is being abused for both ‘carnal’ and ‘criminal’ ‘perverted’ ‘knowledge’; whatever you have to say about the overall groups is up to you, but I’m talking much more bizarre things than wearing fur suits for cybersex.
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