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From a scholarly paper examining the kink culture of Second Life:

Yet the obvious explanations fail to account for the attractiveness of a subculture, such as that of BDSM, in the first place. We believe that metaverses such as Second Life provide new interfaces to a classic, if taboo, aesthetic. BDSM is often understood as a form of sexual practice, especially in academic literature [8, 13]. The practitioner literature [1, 14] commonly extends the practice to a “lifestyle,” which in addition to sex also includes regular household and even public/social interactions; this literature also typically derides the notion of dominance and submission (D/s) as little more than a form

Sex-Interface-Aesthetics: The Docile Avatars and Embodied Pixels of Second Life BDSM

Richard | May 30, 2006 •
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