In the network, Nobody really knows who you are. By wearing a mask, everyone definetely could become the one he wanna be, setting up a different life in the virtual world, even the dark side. Yesterday an article on IGN.com caught my eye, which reported a Italian woman who desired to be a prostitute,  live out her sexual fantasies as an online escort.

Palela Alderson, the woman in the story, is 26 years old, single in real-life. She says Second Life let her dream "be a prostitute" come true. Her desired to be bought and used as pleasure could not be carried out in her normal life because Palela was afraid of being discovered by her family. She thought they would never accept it.

"And I didn't want to hurt them or make them ashamed of me. They have done so much for me, I wanted to be the good girl that they raised. " Palela said.

However she added. "If I hadn't had a family, I wouldn't have hesitated." So when she met Second Life in 2006, she finally saw the light of hope. then "in the summer of 2007 I heard that there were sexual aspects to Second Life, and I had the idea that this could be a way to live out my dark fantasy life without my family finding out. I joined a couple of months later, and have now been an escort for fourteen months."

If you are interested in the full story, here is the link:
http://www.greenpixels.com/articles/features/2256/I-live-out-my-sexual-fantasy-as-an-online-escort

Well, I think this woman, Palela Alderson definitely has no idea what shame is no matter if she declaimed how seriously she cared about her family's feelings. if she really did, the thought of being a whore could not even exist.

I have already heard of second life but hadn't imagine it mimiced true life to this extent. It is far away from a game, is it just the reason we call it "Second Life" ?

What do you think?