Couple to divorce over virtual reality 'affair'

[Raineyrocks]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Couple-to-divorce-over-virtual.4695685.jp

Couple to divorce over virtual reality 'affair'

Published Date:  14 November 2008
A couple are to divorce after one of them had a virtual reality "affair", it was reported today.
Amy Taylor said she had left husband David Pollard and filed for divorce citing "unreasonable behaviour" because she found his character in an internet game having an online affair.

Ms Taylor, who met her husband in an internet chatroom, told the Western Morning News she found his character having sex with another in the game Second Life.

Second Life involves players creating their own personal characters, called avatars, which can then explore a virtual world.

In the game the characters can meet and form relationships with other characters and Ms Taylor said they even had a virtual wedding as well as their real wedding in July 2005.

But then, she claimed, her husband's character first had sex with a prostitute in the game before starting a relationship with a woman in America.

She told the paper that after she found out he told her they should never have married.

Ms Taylor, 28, from Newquay, Cornwall, said: "I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character.
"It is cheating as far as I am concerned."

It is understood the couple have now separated and Ms Taylor has a new partner, whom she met on the internet game World of Warcraft.

Mr Pollard, 40, told the Western Morning News he did not think he was doing anything wrong.

He said: "I was having this online relationship with this girl in America.

"We weren't having cyber sex or anything like that.
"It was nothing really major but then Amy found out and went mad."

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I didn't know you could have sex in Second Life.

[Raineyrocks]

I didn't know you could have sex in Second Life.

Second Life confuses me more than my "real" life does.     When we used to have meetings at my house Jason used to try to explain it to me but it would never penetrate,( ), into my brain.

To me the whole story was just so dumb, are people that out of touch with reality?   I think in a way it might be a neat experience to set up a sex scene on a computer game, if that's what this game can do but to let it dicktate,( ), my life, nah.

  I think maybe some people become obsessed with this virtual reality stuff too much, what do you think? 

[les nessman]

   Maybe I need to get on Second Life and look for this guy:



   

[coffeeseven]

Tron was REAL??? OMG!!!