Married in RL – Partnered in SL?
by Josue Habana on December 18th, 2009
6 Comments
For me, someone who is married in Second Life should be keeping it in their pants in all realms – SL/RL…. the two are really one and the same.
The reason that the tabloids go to town to on Second Life as a ‘haven for extra-marital affairs’ is people like that… those who are married in real life and then go getting their end away in virtual worlds too (and in some cases meeting up with their SL partners in RL).
Infidelity is infidelity regardless.
What a shame that the minority (with the moral fibre of a jellyfish) taint the reputation of the platform in the mainstream press….
Oh well.
Mince pies anyone?
Tags: second lfie relationships, second life affairs
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Adric Antfarm
I don’t really get the thrill of lying and cheating but it’s true a ton of people do.
Now, let’s do that expose on the perhaps staggering chuck of SL women who won’t ever admit to having a penis no matter how many times you ask.
Bubbles Komachi
Gee Adric… some experience there hmm!
truth be told Josue, i feel the same way! I suppose it’s one thing if your spouse knows, understands or does it too. Would that be considered cheating or simply an open marriage?
Is it only cheating if you aren’t truthful to everyone involved? Suddenly i sound very much like Sex in the City right now!
True story.. someone i was once with cheated on me.. with a girl who turned out to be married.. oh and a man in RL.
Ironic no?
Skylar Smythe
Integrity is a good thing. Always.
I’ve never really been sure where the disconnect between SL and RL happens. It’s a bit scary to even refer to life as two dimensions.
One body. One brain. Multiple points of interface, virtual or otherwise. Therefore the rules of morality are universal.
But you cannot impose your sense of morality on others. People are free to choose. You can lead by example, but trying to inspire integrity in someone that lacks the maturity to grasp the concept is a waste of time.
To each their own
My integrity never keeps me up at night…
/me thinks Josue should screen Bubbles date’s for her….
… Just sayin’
Paola Alfa
It’s NOT cheating, It’s fantasizing. Are the rules now that you can’t even THINK about doing it with someone else?
You’re not risking disease or pregnancy. Fer Crissakes you’re not even TOUCHING anyone.
It’s a STORY, you’re collaborating with someone else in writing it and SL is just a really, really, good pencil.
And don’t give me that old saw about, “the emotions are real”. ALL emotions are real, that’s the whole point of fiction. Did you cry at the end of Old Yeller? Should we therefore arrest Disney for animal cruelty?
Josue Habana
Paola, spoken truly as someone with first hand experience? I can assume then that you are partnered in SL with a RL spouse too?
Well… look at cyber sex as an example. It involves someone else getting you off, basically. How is that NOT cheating?!
If a guy went out in real life with his secretary, let’s say. And they spent time alone in a house some place (while his wife thought he was off somewhere else) and they masturbated individually but in the same room…. would that not be cheating? Is it not cheating if a woman talks to a friend of her husband and tells this friend how much she wants him, is that not cheating?!
Of course it is.
Khol McDonnell
In my book, you BET it’s cheating!
I look at being on Second Life and having sex (ie: masturbating with another person online) the same as being on Skype and (shock!!) masturbating with someone online. Two people getting off on each other.
The argument that it’s no different than getting emotional over a movie holds absolutely no water. Why?
Movies don’t interact and “communicate” back to you.
And if they do, you need more than a Second Life.
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