DRAFT 1: What exactly IS virtual rape and who is the main target?
Many articles are written about “online societies” that allow people to live a virtual life, a second life, a life where they can be anybody and anything they desire. In these “societies” everyday things can happen to a person’s avatar, just like they would to a natural human being. Avatars can walk their virtual dogs, ride a bike, play an instrument, swim in a lake, buy and sell things, go to a dance club, meet new people and make friends, just like anyone in the real world would. But what happens when crimes are comitted just like in real life; things that are beyond the players control and their avatar’s control.
A virtual community made in 2003, which just so happens to be titled Second Life, is having problems with user’s, or what they like to call “resident’s,” avatars having real life crimes happen them. Some are actually being raped by other player’s avatars. But what is really happening when an avatar is raped?
The blog site VTOR Virtual Reality asks the question “How Exactly Does ‘Virtual Rape’ Occur in Second Life?” One blogger posts that when she was a “newbie” to Second Life, she met a male in this virtual world who, by the first week of her subscription to this program, invited her to a beach. The beach turned out to be a nude beach. So she took off her clothes and the male avatar suddenly had the word “love” appear over it, but because she was new she didn’t understand the lingo in this virtual world. The word “love” just so happened to mean intercourse. It wasn’t until after some pixels on her computer turned into the form of a penis and the male started to rape her avatar that she realized what was going on. The blogger says that she was at first angry that someone took advantage of her avatar, but she simply told him that she didn’t want that to happen, and so she simply put on her clothes and left him alone on the beach.
Because this sexual act was not wanted or consensual, in the theoretical sense, her avatar was indeed raped. But clearly this girl is not the only person who had this experience. Which leaves the question “Who is the main target?”
September 21st, 2007 at 8:26 am
You have a really good start, there is a clear question and you answer it in detail. You didnt ramble about anything, and your questions were not to broad.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:31 am
I think that it sounds good so far, but you say that the avatar was raped. That might be true but weren’t we talking about the person feeling as though they had been raped in the mental sense? I don’t know if the article said it but maybe describe how she felt.
October 5th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Thank you for sharing!
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