Violence against women in SL

Want to be depressed? Type the word “rape” into a places search and see what comes up. There are currently 63 places that use rape as a key word. Try “friendship”; 29 responses. Something of an indictment of the general human condition or does it say something about the sl community? I have had heated conversations with the owners of male and female avi’s on this subject and get told that I don’t understand RP and today that I was taking rape out context - I would have smiled it if wasn’t such an outrageous comment. Oh yeah, and anyway, lots of woman have a rape fantasy and SL gives them a chance to RP it. Never the mind the RL inadequate who gets his ideas about violence against women validated. I don’t care if it is consensual; in fact that makes the action of the “victim” a lot worse. It isn’t just those Gor wierdos btw. Incidentally, I don’t have an answer to this; I just wanted to have a rant.

Want to be depressed? Type the word “rape” into a places search and see what comes up. There are currently 63 places that use rape as a key word. Try “friendship”; 29 responses. Something of an indictment of the general human condition or does it say something about the sl community? I have had heated conversations with the owners of male and female avi’s on this subject and get told that I don’t understand RP and today that I was taking rape out context - I would have smiled it if wasn’t such an outrageous comment. Oh yeah, and anyway, lots of woman have a rape fantasy and SL gives them a chance to RP it. Never the mind the RL inadequate who gets his ideas about violence against women validated. I don’t care if it is consensual; in fact that makes the action of the “victim” a lot worse. It isn’t just those Gor wierdos btw. Incidentally, I don’t have an answer to this; I just wanted to have a rant.

You opened a can or worms here bud.
I once dared to share my opinion on RP under age sex here and was called " bored" and it was none of my business.
Then ....oh about 7 mths later SL was on the news in the UK , one of the reporters had gone in under cover and hung around "playgrounds" in SL and they did a report about the escorts dressed up as little girls offereing their "services"
They had peodophile experts on saying how easily "RP" fantasy can often lead to needing to take it to real life and how it "can" in certain people encourage peodphilia.
(something else I said and was laughed at and called ignorant )

They had peodophile experts on saying how easily "RP" fantasy can often lead to needing to take it to real life and how it "can" in certain people encourage peodphilia.

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since
his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be
remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to
come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't
always fair, and maybe it was my fault.


Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not
children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well
intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a
six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate;
teens suspended from school for using mouth wash after lunch; and a teacher
fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.


Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing
the job they failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It
declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to
administer Panadol, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but, could
not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an
abortion.


Common sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became
contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better
treatment than their victims.


Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a
burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault. Common
Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize
that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and
was promptly awarded a huge settlement.


Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust;
his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He
is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else is to
Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few
realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not join
the majority and do nothing.

Lana Tomba's post above reminded me of this e-mail I got a year or so ago.

Looks arounds and says. whats you point............... Then again you know how it is. Some that role play to the point of not only rape, but playing bang bang with guns.......You know who i refering too.........How is the big do do DOh guy anyways? A griefter indeed in his time on sl........

Your still running around the point RP and how it effects factors RL. Didnt we learn anything from the child role play germany or child porn a while back? Frankly we havent. and you know what it wil happen again. Why? because LLABS always speaks a good story but they always back track on issues and goes back to letting people do whatever they want. Look at gambling and how they 180 turn and now you see some of the same gambling objects slowly coming back but with SL legal lables. What you expect from LLABS? ALL they care is about money. Frankly speaking LLABS even change past griefters avies into new ones because they spent so much money in the game. Its all about money. You know what and whom i refering too..........

In other news...
and millions of people who play games, acting out extreme violence and killing tons of people and blowing things up.. have taken to the streets lately and have killed off billions of others in the world... it wasn't their fault though, it was those video games that showed them how to do it, and that it was ok because no one said it was bad.



ya'll do know that in majority of cases, almost all cases, that people fantasize about things they never do, and never will do.... yes?


And Linden Labs never backtracked about anything with regards to Ageplay people like to bring up. They stopped allowing it to be advertised, and they said to not make graphical representations of children in sexual ways, because in some countries that considered child porn. Ya know what, sexual ageplay still happens, and luckily after they clarified this, it happens more realistically now and not disgustingly with children AVs. Just like RL Ageplay that existed long before SL, its now people who look like adults, just pretending, not actually turning into a kid.

I'm not sure how rape falls in there. Why would they ban that? They only ban things that are illegal in RL to some degree. Gambling was gone because to gamble in SL is to gamble in RL. Its not just simulating RL gambling, it actually is RL gambling. Ageplay with a child AV is not just simulating child porn, it actually is child porn (in many countries). Roleplaying out a rape scene by consenting adults is... well just simulating something, it isn't actually illegal (in any country that matters). People keep thinking that gambling and Ageplay was "banned" because of its moral issues, when they weren't at all, only on their RL law implications.

eh?