there are no objects that restrict a person from leaving on SL at least not without them consenting to it.
And even if someone could create a script that somehow disabled teleportting allowed someone to remove another avis clothing without consent and generally take total control of a persons avi without their consent, pulling the plug on the PC would still counter that.

The thing is though the definition of rape is not clear cut in some places only the forced entry of the penis into the virgina would qualify as rape ergo only men can rape.
in other places any forced penetration can lead to rape charges

In some states even cyber sex ie purely textual let alone virtual sex with a minor (even if the minor is only a few months underage and consenting) can lead to rape charges so even when there is no sexual contact between flesh and blood bodies and even if the “victim” is willing it will still lead to rape charges.

some like to claim rape is more about power than it is about sex (fairly silly claim in my pov since its obviously a combo)
But under that remit it maybe possible to charge a person with rape if they forced someone into commiting (virtual) sex acts by using threats .

Example scaring someone into commiting virtual sex acts by telling them that your a brilliant hacker and can find their offline addy or by threatening to spread rep destroying lies about them around second life or the net as a whole could have the possibilty of being defined as rape.
the legal definitions of rape are cloudy now due to changing times and the new tech

you-are SUCH a complete moron. I’m blown away by your narrow minded stupidity. Yes, that’s right. Virtual Rape warrants an investigation; nothing more offensive and dangerous than and exchange of words while two animations start going at it. It’s because of dumb brauds like yourself that your everyday law abiding male has to be paranoid of drinking too much and sleeping with an equally “smashed” female.

What I find most deeply disturbing about all of this, however, is the application of the term “rape” to what is, as evidenced above, ultimately a voluntary interaction which INVOLVES NO PHYSICAL CONTACT WHATSOEVER. There are no injuries, other than perhaps shocking or embarrassing someone who might potentially (amazingly) never have heard some of those words or actions at some point in their elementary-school career.

What this really does is to trivialize the actual act of rape, a violent and deeply disturbing real life crime that is impossible to perpetrate in a virtual environment. While I’m sure some people may be upset by being propositioned with such a roleplay, or spoken to in such a way, it’s no more of a crime than someone in RL, or in a chat room, or in IM, or on a blog, telling you what they’d like to do to you. Nasty and uncomfortable maybe, but just stand an SL “rape victim” next to an actual RL rape victim and ask them how the two compare, precisely. Personally, if I were the RL victim, assuming I could hold my temper in check, I’d probably suggest some serious counseling sessions, because Miss VRDramaQueen clearly has an inability to separate fantasy from reality.

C’mon, people…turn off the freaking computer and get a First Life. If you really want to sue someone, go to the grocery store and slip on a spot of water instead.

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.