#Second life sex skin#

#Second life sex skin#

One blogger writing about his experience in Second Life describes the range of male genitalia on offer to buy, including skin colour control, sound, animations, ejaculation, urine and some that are touchable by other players to lead to arousal. 'In Second Life, all the characters are real people somewhere in the world and that's why there's always such betrayal felt,' says Ms Kent. But even those offering the characters more control are unlikely to look very real. In a similar way, some games could just have a special sequence cutting in to represent sexual intercourse. These kinds of online worlds are navigated fairly intuitively, she says, so just by clicking on a door could make your avatar walk through it, without the need to move your hand to find the handle.

It would just resemble two clunky-looking characters rubbing their bodies against each other. 'You can touch and jiggle about a bit and you can emote and gesture in a way the other person would see. Undressing another character without their consent is not possible. Participants can verbally communicate by voice or by typing speech that appears in a bubble above their character.Īnd although they can use the mouse and keyboard to move their character and pick things up, he says, the on-screen graphic depiction is very rudimentary. 'Obviously the sex is not the same as in real life, but you're still expressing yourself in a way that would, maybe reasonably, upset a partner.' What you see on the screen is what you get and the best you can hope for is a bit of sexual humour, although some people do have intense relationships. 'But there's not much in the way of exciting mechanics. You can have ones that ejaculate at the right moment. These objects can do all sorts of things. 'You start off with no genitals and then you buy some. 'First you need to buy genitals,' says technology journalist Adrian Mars, explaining the process in Second Life. So how do computerised characters have sex?

Intercourse is usually represented by an animated sequence