A busy week indeed. With a purse full of Altoids and condoms (and a head full of dreams about Altoid-flavored condoms), I’m just back from today’s Gay Pride Parade. Yesterday, I got cheerfully burnt standing outside at Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade, complete with under-the-sea themed strippers. Have I mentioned that I recently became a real person and moved to New York City?
My “Click Me” column this week was also about becoming a real person–or at least an anatomically correct one. “Getting Started with Sex in Second Life,” as you might expect, is a beginner’s guide to cybersex in the land of Lindens: where floating balls equal sex and crotches cost money. It can all get pretty confusing for horny new users, who should be directing their sexual tension at one another, not Second Life‘s infuriorating UI.
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
