Comments on: Get a Second Life Please!

By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting

Low Math, Meekly Interacting — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:07:08 +0000

Unless they’re making Legos out of different stuff than when I was a kid, I’m not so sure how safe that sex would really be.

Anyway, virtual sex has been around for a long time, in the form of the time-honored combination of porn, a hand, and a bit of imagination.

There’s something almost aggressively unsexy about that photo, however. In fact, I’d go so far as to call it mighty creepy, and if it’s at all representative of the aesthetic of Second Lovemaking, then color me disturbed. My wife would probably divorce me too, but more out of fear of what my proclivities might imply than a sense of betrayal.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:57 +0000

I’m telling you…in our lifetime, we will see marriage expanded to include online personalities.

By: spyder

spyder — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:37:42 +0000

Well, i note that no one is considering that the couple may have had virtual interactive sex suits, through which the online activities are directed to stimulate regions of the bodies more than imitating virtual sex. Would phone sex be grounds for divorce??? Would masturbation fantasies??? First life, second life, whatever life it is, grounding the boundaries of relationships would seem to require consensual communication that defines those boundaries.

By: Friday Evening… « blueollie

Friday Evening… « blueollie — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:58:14 +0000

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By: s

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:58:03 +0000

please bring back the blue background

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:49:05 +0000

This Second Life thing is worth considering. ( I don’t have one, but I don’t really have a ‘first life’ either.) It is much more promising than the standard social networking services. Thanks for the suggestion.

Just a thought: Is there a coffee shop in Second Life where the scientists/mathematicians ‘hang out’? A place where I could ‘sit’ while I type my notes in Latex (in real life) and a curious passerby could begin a conversation? That would be an interesting place.

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:45:26 +0000

Mark, your post and especially the comment about legos reminded me of a documentary I watched a while back:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3710987618964917848

This documentary presents interviews with 4 guys who formed some sort of emotional and sexual bond with life-size dolls. I found it quite interesting to watch.

By: jester

jester — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:31:01 +0000

A second life comes with a second wife? Then it’s worth living.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:47:17 +0000

Hey Moshe. I really meant second life. Just as “get a life” is meant to convey that you could be doing less ridiculous things with your life, “get a second life” was meant to convey that you could be doing less ridiculous things with your second life.

By: John Branch

John Branch — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:44:35 +0000

You’ve got a good point about the silliness of breaking up over virtual sex. Not that I’ve tried it in SL yet, but it sure sounds like it’d be missing a dimension or two. On the other hand, apart from the particular case you mention, for one member of a couple simply to imagine or fantasize about having sex outside the relationship can be disturbing to the other. It could be the idea, not the fact, of the sex that causes the breakup.