There is nothing to stop a child from visiting the new adult-only, online role-playing game Sociolotron but this on its entry page: “By entering the site you declare that: 1) You are 21 years of age or older; 2) It is legal for you to read about interactive erotic role playing involving erotic text and erotic images; 3) You are not offended by reading about a highly politically incorrect form of roleplaying; and 4) …you have read and understood the Legal Terms and Conditions and you agree to all of these terms and that all statements made in the terms about visitors of our site and customers of the Sociolotron game are true for you.” Then they click on “The above is true for me. Let me in” and they’re there, joining others living out their “darkest fetish fantasies” or joining a cult, the source of whose “magic rituals” is “among the darkest and most depraved secrets of the world.”
Players of EverQuest, Ultima Online, etc. may be tempted to move on to Sociolotron because, according to Wired News, it has monster battles and other fantasy fare like that of many multiplayer games, in addition to sexual fantasy. The game begs big questions, such as whether this type of role-playing legitimizes rape in impressionable minds, along the lines of pedophiles’ practice of exposing children to images of other children’s abuse as a way, experts say, of persuading them that this behavior is “normal.” In its article on Sociolotron, “Pursuing the Libido’s Dark Side,” Wired News paraphrases one source as saying that “people shouldn’t be afraid that the game’s players will step away from their computers filled with violent lust…. In fact … the fact that rape and other so-called bad acts are possible in a game like Sociolotron can actually be a valuable social experiment.” Parents also might want to know that the game includes chat – “private between the people in the room, but everybody has a log of this text,” the game’s publishers explain.
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