JegStiger

Thank you for those items Czari, I have stored them carefully and hope this doesn't prove such a dangerous environment that I need them :-) My opnion on this matter changes as I think through it, one thing seems certain (to me) whatever answers there are to be had are not going to be always very simple ones. And thank you for the welcome !

I guess it's deep, people can be sometimes perhaps. And I take your point, for me it was on topic.... the OP was suggesting that perhaps this shouldn't be allowed, or should be restricted, I thought. This made me think.... if I were Linden Labs what would I be considering if I read that post. Of course I have little idea, but if it were me, I would be considering possible harm, and however complex that thought process proved, I would follow it, as I could. I do not know the answers, of course, people are quite difficult to understand completely, and put a number of them together and it gets more difficult. But asking questions, a whole variety of them, as they present themselves, is a good way to start. These were the questions that came to my mind.

I completely 100% agree. I did not mention this and other equally relevant issues for want of time and space.. But what you say is very true of course and well worth mentioning.

Well, into SL and the first thing I see in the forums is a small conflagration. But some interesting points worth thinking on I thought, so into the flame I walk, and not a shred of asbestos. This must be some sort of bravery One poster mentions that rape fantasy is common, this begs some questions which i can't see asked anywhere, even if dismissed I can't imagine why they are not, I am not specially perceptive I think. If such fantasies are common, how many of those who are preoccupied to some extent with them have unhealthy, unbalanced or undeveloped attitudes towards women. Now, I see immediately this could be considered irrelevant, but without knowing this we have no way to judge how harmful such a fantasy might (or might not) be in reinforcing negative behaviors. Also we don't know how often such fantasies are acted out in any meaningful way, or the range of such fantasies. What I mean here is that someone may have such a fantasy privately but find it distasteful to act it out, even with a real sexual partner. Is their a division between those who fantasize about such things knowing any approach to the reality of it would not be pleasurable, and those who fantasize about this but them go on and then enjoy enacting such fantasies on/with the bodies and minds of others. (Fantasizing about impossible-to-do things is, after all, common). Is there a further division, people who fantasize about rape and enact it with an equal sexual partner as one might enact a drama, both enjoying it as drama.... and those enacting it from some deep problematic area of their minds, and truly intent on getting as close to a rape experience as possible. I don't know, does it matter? Not sure but I immediately found the questions in my mind reading the statistics. They say a lot, they perhaps don't say more. But such studies are very incomplete, perhaps more needs to be done? I can see it might be argued "well, we are all adults here, so it's surely fine, and anyway its virtual for heavens sake man, lighten up". I am undecided whether to agree with this dismissal or no, though I think it too sometimes writing this, I am really undecided, but the questions just sit there waiting to be asked. Just because people minds only are involved, it is not proven, or necessarily true, that people are unaffected. Neither is it the case that all have an equal ability to defend themselves in such games, or remain unaffected by them. Or is it? Perhaps this is proven somewhere, quite possibly. Difficult questions, not simple, I wonder, is any game ok if it is virtual? I confess I don't know the answer, but I would be fairly confident the answer is not straightforward. And if it is generally considered that not every game is ok in virtual space, which ones aren't? And why?