Woman talks about her romance with man met on Second Life
Bizarre and lame. Read and see their virtual pictures.
Attractive and single, women's magazine editor Mandy Appleyard was the last person you'd expect to find looking for romance in a bizarre internet fantasy world. But she did - with extraordinary results.
How I found romance with a man I met on the bizarre internet fantasy world Second Life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1091450/How-I-romance-man-I-met-bizarre-internet-fantasy-world-Second-Life.htmlAlready I stood out from the crowd: one of the most depressing observations I made was how many women in Second Life dress in thigh-high boots and leather G-strings, long gloves and capes, with voluminous hair and names like Sexilicious and Spanky Wise. This, it seems, is the modern woman's idea of a strong and desirable post-feminist role model.
You converse with other avatars via typed dialogue using the Instant Messaging system, and at one point I asked a lady why she'd chosen to dress like the dominatrix lead in a fetish film.
She was, she explained, a divorced fortysomething mother of four grown-up children, living alone in the country, miles from anywhere, overweight and celibate for the past seven years.
So she had invented a woman who was everything she wasn't: a 6ft tall, sexually voracious alter-ego.
As she put it: 'I can be who I want to be here - as upfront, as explicit, as daring as I want - and leave no footprint behind me. It's totally liberating.'
And horribly predictable if, like me, you're mired in prejudice about the type of people who show up in Second Life.
Look, for example, at the real-life photographs of the over-weight couple from Newquay in the recent love triangle, and contrast them with pictures of their honed-and-toned avatars. Could they be more tragically different?
Attractive and single, women's magazine editor Mandy Appleyard was the last person you'd expect to find looking for romance in a bizarre internet fantasy world. But she did - with extraordinary results.
How I found romance with a man I met on the bizarre internet fantasy world Second Life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1091450/How-I-romance-man-I-met-bizarre-internet-fantasy-world-Second-Life.htmlAlready I stood out from the crowd: one of the most depressing observations I made was how many women in Second Life dress in thigh-high boots and leather G-strings, long gloves and capes, with voluminous hair and names like Sexilicious and Spanky Wise. This, it seems, is the modern woman's idea of a strong and desirable post-feminist role model.
You converse with other avatars via typed dialogue using the Instant Messaging system, and at one point I asked a lady why she'd chosen to dress like the dominatrix lead in a fetish film.
She was, she explained, a divorced fortysomething mother of four grown-up children, living alone in the country, miles from anywhere, overweight and celibate for the past seven years.
So she had invented a woman who was everything she wasn't: a 6ft tall, sexually voracious alter-ego.
As she put it: 'I can be who I want to be here - as upfront, as explicit, as daring as I want - and leave no footprint behind me. It's totally liberating.'
And horribly predictable if, like me, you're mired in prejudice about the type of people who show up in Second Life.
Look, for example, at the real-life photographs of the over-weight couple from Newquay in the recent love triangle, and contrast them with pictures of their honed-and-toned avatars. Could they be more tragically different?