Dec 02 2008
Virtual Reality? Speculation on Sex, Divorce and Cyberspace
From cornellsun.com:
Amy Taylor and Dave Pollard are both players of the virtual world aptly named “Second Life”, a virtual game world where people can create avatars and do day-to-day activities like hanging out with friends and attending concerts. She is 28. He is 40. Both are disabled. They met in a chat room in 2003 and were married in 2005, first in a lavish, tropical ceremony in “Second Life” itself and then in a registry office.
The kicker here is that Taylor says the only adultery committed was virtual. “He never did anything in real life,” Taylor said, “but I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life.”
She also said that , she had caught him using his Second Life avatar to have sex with another player’s avatar. Then last year, she says she caught him using his avatar to have sex with (I am not making this up) a virtual prostitute. She forgave him, and then found him committing virtual adultery again this past April.
That changed recently when, according to Taylor, she found him flirting with another Second Life player. “I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game,” Taylor said. “It looked really affectionate. He confessed he’d been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks, and said our marriage was over and he didn’t love me any more.”
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