More Virtual Affairs Causing RL Divorces!
It was not so long back that the British Tabloids (ever reliable gossip and sensationalism providers) reported on a British couple who were getting divorced because he cheated on her with someone in Second Life™. Well the News of the World have managed to dig up more dirt (shock, horror). This time the gossip is a little jucier though. Basically, Lisa Best from Derby, UK, was lying in bed and her husband, believing her to be asleep, was beside her on his laptop… having pixel sex with a man in game. Well, according to the story, which you can read by clicking here, she of course sat up demanding to know what he was doing and he laughed it off. But now she’s had him move out and demanded a divorce. Now she tells her tale exclusively to the News of the World (whose employees really can only be referred to as ‘journalists’ at a real push) complete with a picture of her standing cross armed with a grimace that says ‘Yes, I am mad’. Let’s face it, she probably got paid a nice little packet and managed to completely humiliate her husband in the process. Hell hath no fury and all that….
Anyway, my point is that the only stories that really hit the headlines in terms of Second Life, are these big sensationalist ones. All the amazing educational stuff going on is crammed into 100 words on page two zillion in the bottom corner. But pixel affairs are top story events! Is it any wonder that nonSL-ers think all Second Life players are sex crazed, gender bending, confused nymphos?
Well, peeps, if you want your 15 minutes of fame all you need to do is get a real life divorce and blame it on Second Life. Send a tabloid newspaper your story and some shocking shots of avies in compromising positions in game and you’re Sunday paper top story material!
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[...] divorcing him after catching him having gay pixel sex in Second Life™. You can read that post by clicking here and you can see the story from the News of the World by clicking here. As the article explains, the [...]