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Monday, October 18, 2010

On Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting in Second Life - or other less important virtual worlds - is on some blogs sometimes presented as if it was an unheard of occurrence in human imagination.

It is by these bloggers portrayed as something so dramatic that only a few heroic, imaginative and openminded dare cross "the line".

Well it´s not, far from it...

The thoughts, myths and fantasies have been around for thousands and thousands of years. Not even shapeshifting between the sexes is new.

With the advent of Second Life I have at times heard it said that at least 40 percent of the female avatars are controlled by men, while the figure is a little lower for male avatars controlled by women.

I cannot honestly believe many would raise an eyebrow or feel provoked by this in the least. It´s funny, it´s entertaining but not really original anymore, in Second Life we more or less do it at everyother party, in less evolved virtual worlds perhaps more rarely - but I would not know much about that.

Read more about it here: "Wikipedia"