i know this is a year late, but i would like to know why people don’t know how to use an off button or the quit command?

and learn something about networking too. secondlife is blocked for all computers on my network but mine. my kids touch that game and they won’t be touching a computer in my house for a very long time. i play it, enjoy the clothes, shoes, dancing, and friends. and if someone even tried touching me without my consent my SL boyfriend would come over and virtually kick their (expletive deleted) I’m just kidding, but still. I’d tp out of there or turn around with my ak47 and blow their character away if the land allowed damage.

geesh

And, no. It’s not rape.

If it ain’t against laws established by your country’s government, not only is it legal, but it certainly ain’t rape.

Just because you have traumatized somebody by betraying them, or pissing them off, or making their game character cry, or whatever . . . does not constitute rape. Rape is not a bad feeling in response to something that happened in your day, else I could have my boss arrested 5,000 times over. For you idiots to call this rape, of any sort, just shows how delusional and silly you all are.

You second lifers are just fucking dorks. That’s all it amounts to. No tangible, real crime committed IRL, so no punishment IRL. Now if they damage something you pay for, that might be a crime, but it’s not rape.

This was a strategic inflection point for The Palace and it was downhill from there. I worked on The Palace a little bit, it was sad to see that environment go.

I think there are several forms of rape. For example, someone who logs in, then claims you’ve harassed them, and proceeds to set up her own Kangaroo court and get you removed from a sim - is a sort of “Full Disclosure” rape that will not likely be reported much here, I assume but does happen.

I know this for a fact, however, that it does happen. I had a person who was posing as a reporter, and who decided that it was not religiously appropriate for me to RP in a particular sim. She logged in and told me that I should fear her, and I said.. why? And she said ” Because I can destroy you” and I said. Ok. Go ahead. And then she collected up my friends, told them lies about me and then laughed when they booted me from the sim.

My revenues went up 200 percent after that.. so I am not complaining..
but still. Rape means forced encounter.

Regardless of intent, from this perspective, it sounds more like consensual in SL than a victimization which is what people are terming it as. If you don’t like it, don’t participate.

I still don’t see any actual source that holds you down without you consenting to it and doesn’t allow a way out (in which rape from what I understand is taking away all control that “you have”). In this fashion, it still doesn’t make much sense.

What if it was attempted on a woman who had been previously raped in RL? Just because there is no physical involvement the knowledge that someone has attempted to violate you via your avatar could cause a degree of trauma.

No doubt law enforcement agencies will want to investigate or record such attacks because it may assist with RL investigations.

And what if your wife’s avatar was attacked… if you could get your hands on the guy on the other side of the screen what would you do?