FTC investigating explicit content in virtual worlds

I was thinking the same thing lol

@Anti-Villian: I agree, that's a serious risk. By the way we're banning all video games that include shooting people, from tomorrow, because they might entice people to do the same in real life. You're cool with that right?

@this one: SORRY WRONG REPLY yadda yadda.

after practicing in SL some may be enticed to practice it in RL

Not to mention Second Life has a "Teen Grid".

@anti-villian:

That's a ridiculous claim to make no matter how you cut it. Studies find a healthy fantasy support for sex offenders actually reduces the rates of REAL sex crimes. But this is the whole "porn shop will bring rapists into our community arguement." It's a conclusion based on speculation. Take as an example, the following.

Violent Games are not only on a rise due to their explicit nature but also their sales. Given this information, naturally violence and violent crimes would be on a rise, correct? It's certainly what the news wants us to believe. But check this, violent crimes have been on a steady decline for the past 12 years according to the FBI. In fact, we only recently started to see a rise due to economic conditions. One of the record low years was the same year San Andreas came out (take THAT, Thompson). Some have said because people are able to act out their violent fantasies in a virtual setting, this negates the violent outbreaks in the real world. In fact I LOVE winding down a stressful day with headshots galore.

So take the same model and apply it to online sex applications. Who's to say the "rape scenarios" so common in many of them aren't preventing a guy from living the fantasy, as it were? The concept that someone is going to learn about rape in Second Life and be inspired by it is a sketchy platform at best. And frankly, meeting likeminded individuals (loads of females HAVE rape fantasies) in a safe environment (online) could be preventing these predators from taking what they're craving.

And the FTC, which is what this article is about.

Don't wake and bake, kids.

No, silly, that's a pot o' gold.

Or an upside-down Pilgrim's hat.

...Yeah!

I'm still waiting for the ever exclusive "Boy Rape Room".

I'm gettin' the banhammer now, I can smell it.