Chapter . Fur vs. Gor

There have always, of course, been many avatar societies in Second Life. Just like downtown L.A., a connection point of many highways from far away, a world trafficked by people from all walks of life, driving along highways that split and rejoin, spewing out avatars into central catchbins, blending individual cultures into a bizarre patchwork society. Second Life usually felt, for this reason, urban.

Fur vs. Gor

Sara Kochav, Second Life

If the Goreans were the hyperborean, heterosexual, far-right conservative Christians and capitalists who followed their own rules to the hilt, then the Furs, or Furries, were the hypermodern, homosexual, ...

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