How Many People Have You Slept With In SL?

Speaking of firemen, equipment, and that news story, there was an episode of "Rescue Me" which dealt with that VERY situation. <.<

Perhaps the person in need of rescue would have agreed with Chris when he said: "maybe you shouldn't comment on things you haven't experienced."

It could have been a meaningful thing for him; we'll never know, shall we?

LOL, as opposed to where it was?

Yeah, I'm cool with it . . .

Why bother with the "co-" in "cofusing?" If fusion is bringing two things together to become one, do you really need the "co" in the beginning of the word? Or are we talking about two people performing the same act of fusion? It's sort of like "co-conspirator" and "conspirator" - they basically mean the same thing.

Anyway Des, we all have it on good authority, as someone else mentioned, that you have fathered at least one litter of kittens. Just ask Ann Launay.

pffft, boring semantic argument. We're not talking about the biological term, we're talking about the social term, which is in common usage. Note that with the biological definition, "phone sex" would be a nonsense term, yet it communicates perfectly to most normal people precisely what is intended.

Yay, that'd be great for my business!

I'm siding with Des on this - not that we're taking sides really.

There have been well documented studies done of the chemical changes that takes place in people when they fall in love. When you first fall in love there's that heady indescribable feeling that everything is right with the universe finally - not only right, but euphoric. Words fail to describe the feeling. After time it settles down a little becomes the very close bond needed for child raising. After even more time the chemistry becomes that of comfort, the comfort of having that familiar person nearby - which is not to say a little of that heady first flush cannot still flare up once in a while. And all this is through brain endorphins and subtle pheromone exchanges during a kiss or other physical contact.

This is my understanding of the chemical process of love anyway. I don't think it takes away any of the magic when you analyze it as a bunch of chemicals. We're not thinking of those things while it is happening to us.

I know the original question is about "sleeping with" people and having sex with someone isn't necessarily the same thing as love (especially for guys as we tend to compartmentalize that more than women). My point is - none of this chemical exchange could really happen over the internet, or if it does, it can't be quite the same. I think it might be a fun substitute, but what if you do fall in love with someone and then meet in real life and find your chemistry is not quite compatible? It's as much or more about chemistry as it is about looks. I once settled for someone in RL whose chemistry was not quite right for me, perhaps too close to my own. I cannot stress enough what a bad move that was.

Oh - I'm not saying others shouldn't do it, only that it's probably not for me. I answered the survey 0.



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Weston... I respectfully suggest that you might be mistaken.

I agree with Eli.

Also, even if you're a physicalist, there's a lot more to experiences than the presense or absence of certain brain chemicals. Not to say that the research doesn't shed light, but the reductionist approach just isn't very fruitful when studying complex things like the brain. While the reality studied by physicists may be all that there is at the root of things, the physicist's approach to explaining particle behavior is simply not adequate for explaining all the phenomena there is to observe.

I've wondered about that too, the big, heady attraction online, only to meet in real and go......oh......hai......(gag). That would be quite disconcerting!

My own experience, and that of others who have met SL friends and lovers in RL, has been very different from that. Yes, the person may look quite different from their avatar. But that quickly becomes irrelevant. You already know this person...you KNOW them, and it's like, instant connection.

@Weston: I disagree that the chemistry thing can't happen over the internet. Those emotions...or those chemical changes, if you prefer...happen in YOU, an individual. It doesn't matter if the stimulus is a physical person or their representation.

Nooooo not friends! Your friends, I don't see that there's a physical attraction aspect to that. They are who they are, and you love them regardless. But lovers.......on meeting in real, wouldn't there need to be some component of physical attraction? Just like if you had originally met in real?

Ain't talking 'bout love.

Fall in love?

I think you're barking up the wrong tree from the start with that.

You can't fall up....You just fall down.

http://vodpod.com/watch/2597800-tower-of-power-you-cant-fall-up

Imo, yes there would need to be some physical attraction. But meeting online people in RL is different. As Lindal said, you already *know* them so it's not like strangers meeting. I've never met anyone from SL but I've met quite a few from a previous online system and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Yummy yummy oxytocin!

"How Many People Have You Slept With in SL?" Zero.

Ok then. How many CATS have you slept with?

I've met many, from SL and other online venues. I even hosted a party at my house with a bunch of online friends from a group, that it was the first time any of us had met in real. It was a weekend bash, we had a great time. I've met friends from SL, one on one, like Kaimi, and Maureen, or a bunch, like at SLCC. And yes it's instant friendship, instant connection as Lindal said, because you already felt that way before you met in real, and nothing much would change those feelings, physical appearance is totally irrelevant. But lovers just somehow seem different, and I've never done that aspect so was just curious about that, if a lack of physical attraction would make a difference, change the love relationship, to something else if you found you just weren't attracted, in rl.

I don't give them time to sleep. Soon as we're done I tell them to GTFO.......

Yeeesh. You and Jig . . .

Do you at least have a guest house for them?

Even the men? Pansexual, eh?

And you told me you had not been with anyone else before.










(and I feel safe to make said joke after noting in prior post "zero"

Cats are people too. Answer is still zero.

I have danced in SL. My understanding is that some religions see that as sex. Or worse than sex. I forget which.