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Is Having an Online Wife Adultery? (online games)
BuzWeaver
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It's Sunday morning at 6AM, and Dutch Hoorenbeek rolls out of bed to check on his strip club and do some renovations to an outside party deck. He then fires several tenants in his mall for not paying rent, signs up four new ones, and transports to his office to spend some time with his wife, Tenaj Jackelope.
The thing is, in real life, Dutch Hoorenbeek is actually Ric Hoogestraat, a call-center operator making $14 an hour. He's also married to Sue Hoogestraat, not Tenaj Jackelope.
Confusing? It should be. Turns out that Ric and Sue's marriage is on the rocks. She contends that he spends more time online in Second Life, a virtual universe currently home to 30 million players, with his online wife. Sue spends her days in front of the television, while Ric is in the other room running a virtual night club and consorting with his online wife, sometimes for as long as 14 hours at a time on weekends.
Although Sue Hoogestraat has attended "gaming widow" support groups, she sees no way out. "Basically, the other person is widowed," she told the Wall St. Journal. "This other life is so wonderful; it's better than real life. Nobody gets fat, nobody gets gray. The person that's left can't compete with that."
http://www.switched.com/2007/08/15/is-having-an-online-wife-adultery/
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lol ohhh man. i tell you, people that are obsessed with second life are something else.
Adultery? No. Pathetic? Of course!
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
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Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
It's all about intentions.
If Ric and his online "wife" have had sexually explicit communications with the intention of stimulating each other sexually, then yes, it is adultery.
In light of this salacious anecdote, it gives one pause to wonder what impact online Virtual Reality will have on our societies.
From a bland opinion i personally just see it as good old roleplay between two people.
Delving further however I can understand why it might bother some, especially if your spending more time with someone online than your own wife.
Depends really I suppose..
Will have? Or has had? There are MMOs devoted entirely to sex.
Maybe since this massively networked world is still in its adolescence we're still trying to work out the rules of communication, friendship and relationships. Just because people see something we've traditionally relied on disappearing, it doesn't mean we're fucked. It might not mean it's bad for society.
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By this definition it is not adultery, however that online lifestyle (while artificial) is a catalyst to a dysfunctional marriage.
1. This guy needs to learn moderation.
2. If he still cares about his marriage he needs to pay more attention to the real wife. Turn the computer off and take the lady to dinner and buy her some flowers. You'll actually get some fresh air in the process.
3. Honestly the wife should just dump him and get someone else.
However who knows maybe she doesnt give him any.
P.S. I did not read the article just what you put here.
Will have? Or has had? There are MMOs devoted entirely to sex.
Maybe since this massively networked world is still in its adolescence we're still trying to work out the rules of communication, friendship and relationships. Just because people see something we've traditionally relied on disappearing, it doesn't mean we're fucked. It might not mean it's bad for society.
When I say Virtual Reality I mean the real deal...head mount display, data gloves, force feedback suit (maybe the suits will have an optional attachments for sexual stimulation.), etc..I don't have time to thrash the rest of your post...gotta go to the gym. Ta ta.
The love between a man and a man isn't officially considered a relationship in the United States.
That's stupid... I don't really understand how you could spend 14 hours a week with a person on the internet whom you've (supposedly) never met in real life.
"Ric believes that what he's doing is harmless. "It's just a game," he says." I don't know if it's really harmless either. There is at least one person who suffers from it, his wife. 14 hours a week with someone you've just met in the game and then say that "it's just a game", it doesn't fit. If it's just a game, why does he spend so bloody much time in it then.
I suppose we will have to live with these kind of extreme cases though. The most people aren't like this, but a few are and it's those few who's highlighted.