From blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

The danger here is that “lads”, at a formative age, aren’t getting a real experience of young women (nor are they getting an experience of real young women). They are entering a virtual sexual world. This is, of course, the nature of fantasy, but so long as there were only soft-porn, top-shelf mags, adolescent boys might be made sufficiently curious to go and find out what a real girl is like, as it were, in the flesh.

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The trouble with on-line porn is that it invites the viewer in, rather than to look beyond it. Any parent who has watched how a teenager can become hooked to computer-screen life will know what I mean. They go to their room and start to experience life almost exclusively through their PC, rather than out into the street and in person.

It’s like the avatar games on-line, such as Second Life, which have reportedly caused divorce as a consequence of on-line infidelity. If you start to live a marriage in virtual reality, the real one withers. Put your sex life on-line and the same happens.

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From gaywired.com:

"Beyond the L Word islands, Second Life has much to offer the queer gamer. There are hundreds of ‘gay-friendly’ and ‘gay-only’ locations in the game to visit and hangout at. There are also entire regions dedicated to providing exclusive real estate and housing to gay and lesbian ‘residents’ of Second Life. And for those who think Second Life is mostly just a virtual world of porn and fetish — well, there is a lot of that going on too for those willing to submit to having their age verified. Most ‘adult’ areas of Second Life are relatively open to gay and lesbian gamers (especially lesbian and bi) who are looking for a little mature ‘play’. But Second Life IS about far more than just virtual sex. "

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