Chapter . Kajira, Raddick, and Involuntary Speed Dating Services
There is virtual and real, fiction and fact, the person and their alter-ego, the individual and their community, and all of these things start to lose definition when you pack them into this container of identity called the avatar, and each of these elements seems to feed and increase the power of the others. It’s a circulatory system of identity. In my travels, this came to a head when I continued to learn about master-slave relationships.
Master-slave interaction in Second Life is mildly popular. Of the 1,000 or so avatars that I met in Second Life, I would guess around 200 actively participated in slave-master play. That matches up with some statistics released by New World Notes ...
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