I'm talking about Second Life.
If you haven't played it, it's basically an online game where you socialize with other people. You make a character "avatar," design him/her/it to look how you want him/her/it to look, and venture off into the world.
By the time I tried the game out, there were two main themes to the game: Online moneymaking ideas, and online sex.
Today, I'm discussing the latter.
The game was originally designed so your dude had the "barbie" look. Ie: No genitalia. But because of the open-source theme of the game, people quickly designed "skins" with anatomically correct body parts, along with other designs. Some were free, most you had to pay for.
One example is this:
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| Rawr? Maybe? No? Ok. |
If you want fur, ears and a tail, by all means have them.
At the same time, if you want to copulate with your, um, ilk...
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| You can do that too. |
...to something a little more extreme...
You get the idea. It's basically a next-level form of cyber sex. But, with most internet phenomenon, some people take things too far. Some people have left their normal IRL (in real life) relationships to further pursue their online affairs. Marriages were shattered.
But, as the old-style AOL and yahoo chat rooms taught us, be careful who you get freaky with....
