Strong Content Warning: This article discusses child abuse and contains blurred explicit images.
Second Life users are in a frenzy over this article, published on Sunday, which details how a key member of parent company Linden Lab was participating in virtual sex content containing child avatars. Patch Linden, AKA Eric Nix, his husband, and several other high level members of Linden Lab staff are accused of enabling child abuse content to flourish in their privately owned virtual residences, ignoring explicit content involving virtual children, and creating a deeply toxic working environment at the company.
No it doesn’t. Only in the same way that violent video games or bdsm normalize actual violence.
Nope, not comparable. Sexualizing children’s bodies is wrong and should be stopped wherever people try to do it.
Yes, sexualizing real children’s bodies is wrong. Sexualizing 3d images of fantasy things is always OK because it’s not real
God damn lemmy is disgusting sometimes.
Any media that depicts children as sexual is promoting pedophilia, which is harmful to real children. Children are not sexual and should not be depicted that way, people who have pedophilic desire need psychological held, not to be placated by catering to their fantasies. Catering to their fantasies emboldens them to act.
What a terrible take. The same way that violent video games promote violence and is harmful to children?
No children are involved
There is 0 evidence of this, and some evidence to the contrary. Having an outlet that involves 0 victims is beneficial. But even still, there are people that are into this that have 0 interest in actual children. Because it’s just a fantasy, the same way that people have rape fantasies.