Sometimes I feel like a sexbot. True, my insides are full of squishy human organs, and I don’t think in ones and zeros. But with all the research cybersex I do, sometimes it’s hard to stay human. After 20 encounters in three straight hours, repeating the same “sexy” phrases, ignoring what appeals to me to listen in on other people’s desires… It could turn anyone into a computer. Thus my latest Click Me, in which I decide to just run with it–my inner sexbot, that is. Will anyone notice that I’ve traded in my weak human body for shiny metal skin? Find out!
Also new at the Voice is an image gallery by yours truly called “Strange Sightings in Second Life.” Regular readers will remember I had this idea a while back: to go around Second Life taking snapshots of all the weird, in-world content created by users. Second Life is, after all, a world left open for creation. Sometimes that means users design the beautifully recreated streets of real-life cities, like Amsterdam. Sometimes they build steaming bath houses for furry romps. And sometimes they make entire islands full of over-sized, teary-eyed animal figurines. WTF, mate? You never know what you’ll see. One thing I can promise you’ll see in this slideshow though: my avatar Cheeree Oh’s constantly changing, constantly hideous outfits. Oooo, bizarre!


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.