Re:This may be controversial, but... (Score 1)

The real question is, "should fantasy be policed in the digital age?" When fantasies are solely inside people heads how can they be? But there is a real difference between a head fantasy and a second life fantasy. There is a difference of degree and also over what the fantasy occasions. Role playing games amongst adults explore the possibility of certain ways of being with more than one adult sharing that fantasy. Does this not legitimate the fantasy in a more powerful way than if it were confined to a person's daydreams? If those ways of being are deemed illegal in the societies to which those people belong, doesn't it behoove the society to sanction that behaviour in the digital realm, or do we allow certain virtual contexts for fantasies that would be deemed abhorrent in the real world in the name of freedom? I don't want to come down on one side or the other in this debate but it is really interesting. But as other posters have said, this is an area that needs to be studied as well as talked about.