Users and Simulated Sex: Age Verification Uncertain for Launch of Spore
Identity and Expression, Virtual World Platforms | (5)
For all the hand-wringing over the years about sex in IRC, sex on the Web, sex in virtual worlds, and all the creepy dangers and terrors awaiting us, I figure it's about time to just finally throw up our collective hands and say: where there's a way, there's porn.
This time, instead of it being the Lindens defending the presence of sex in a virtual world, it's the execs over at EA Games - defending um, Spore sex, which arrived with its Creature Creator release:
"Within 24 hours ...gamers had gone creature-crazy, designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a ...