Sex Sells…
We had a little bit of a connection yesterday between our Communications Revolutions Class and our Transient Spaces class, which i found very interesting.
In comm rev we have gone through the ages starting with the invention of print up to the digital era we live in. This is where Transient Spaces comes in: the online world, virtual realities.
In our comm rev class we watched a video about the world of Second Life, the online world that hundreds of thousands of people live in. What interested me was the way that even on the internet, sex sells. The ideas of pornography and child sex were rife throughout Second Life and in reality there it not much they can do about it.
The founder of Second Life was interviewed and he was saying how much he didnt want to intervene or govern the world of Second Life, but they had recently made the first law which was to take off any advertisement selling child sex. In Second Life you may choose whatever ‘Avatar’ you would like to be, and this can be either sex. As an adult you can talk to children, invite them to your home, do anything with them really. So I want to know where the line is for behaviour on Second Life?
We have all seen the adds for sex predators on the internet and I believe Second Life is the perfect breeding ground for this kind of thing. According to the creators Amsterdam is one of the most popular locations to go to as an Avatar and you can go to brothels, strip clubs, do anything really. Even if you are a child.
I realise that the creators want Second Life to be sort of ‘for the people by the people’ where everyone can have an imput and everyone can have their own imagination, but I think its been proven in real life that if everyone can simply do whatever they please, its like a Pandora’s Box. Every freak and sicko will soon be on Second Life gaining their sexual pleasures from god knows what. But then again…perhaps its better than having them in real life?
