1. I did not see this episode, but had the storyline narrated to me, by a friend in sl who had it on while we were both in world. There is much that goes on in sl that disgusts me and sexual ageplay is at the very very top of the list. I have absolutely no interest in SL sex and most (but not all) of the people I know and spend time with sl aren't interested in it either for a variety of reasons. I tire of this one part of sl being blown out of proportion and made into the whole of something much greater. I also tire of how some (but not all) of those who are into sl sex tend to perpetuate this stereotype by being so publicly open about sl sex in all areas of sl. In rl, you don't publicly show off your various kinks in public, just because it is a virtual world doesn't mean you shouldn't have the same respect for others. I think this is where some of this perception comes from, but characterize sl as just about sex is like characterizing the internet as just a place to get porn.

Posted at 3:01PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Grizzy Griswold

2. > Law & Order SVU portrays their fake Second Life as sex playground
And they're somehow wrong? Just be glad they didn't stumble upon your furry animal sex cesspits.

Posted at 3:04PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Sn4x15

3. Well that seems to me to be the same as the first depictions of the Internet in general.

Posted at 3:31PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by ShockWave Plasma

4. I lol'd HARD.

Posted at 4:29PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by KirbyMeister

5. Actually, Isaac Asimov once wrote a hilarious short story, "Playboy and the Slime Gods," after Playboy magazine tried to tar all SF with the brush of some third-rate "spicy" (as they were called back then) story with SF trappings. L&O SVU is playing the same game as Playboy, and as CSI did later with the "Fur and Loathing in Las Vegas" episode, for the same reason.

Ironically, real life is the real sex playground, because there natural selection plays for keeps... but nobody would say that's all there is to real life. Why should Second Life be so mischaracterized?

Posted at 4:44PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Melissa Yeuxdoux

6. When will people start realizing that Second Life is a legitimate creative and business platform and not a giant virtual whore house? There are many success stories in SL such as Anshe Chung...oh wait, she started as an escort back in the day. Oh! Eros is making waves with their lawsuit about...a...uh...copied sex bed.

But seriously, this same thing was big news 5-10 years ago with 14 year old chicks meeting 40 year old guys in vampire chatrooms. This, too, shall pass.

Posted at 5:13PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by SqueezeOne Pow

7. Hahahaha, saw it.... it's lame. Law&Order fails for every damn cases.

It's so old that they need to stop spinning off more non-sense "Law&Order" shows.

As for the episode, it seem like they are missing out a lot more about SL if that was their aim on. However, I think they did it because they know SL is big and it's a good idea to get along with "today" media to be "up to date".... but they really fails.

I'd like to see more money spent to "Psych" & Dr.House" than any more "Law&Order" spin-offs, it's long over due.

Posted at 5:18PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Nacon

8. Being HUMAN is all about sex and roleplaying fantasies... these sorts of bodies we have are peculiarly and specifically set up to give us good solid measured jolts of pain and pleasure. If you're in a human body to begin with it's probably because you're obsessed with and addicted to sensation. The real twist is most of y'all have forgotten you had any choice in the matter.

Thus is it any surprise when people enter a world that *doesn't* provide those jolts of sensation they immediately, obsessively start trying to create them? I'm sure this is especially true of TV writers, it's what they do all the time anyway.

What will really be interesting news is the day when general public opinion is that it's perverted to meet someone in the flesh and actually TOUCH them! *gasp*

Posted at 8:29PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Ananda

9. At what point do you start policing peoples' fantasies?

Sex in SL happens, but it's only the symptom of a bigger problem.

Here's the thing.. SL is a virtual online world, and since it is a public area, there will be some things people will take offense at. I'm sure there are some things in YOUR private life people will take offense at too. DEAL WITH IT.

I find it so funny though, you play games where people get their heads blown off, nobody makes a fuss, however you show sex, and OMFG! OFFENSIVE!

Think for yourself instead of following social conditioning.

Posted at 10:50PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Ironraptor Albion

10. I'm lolling at this quote:

"When will people start realizing that Second Life is a legitimate creative and business platform and not a giant virtual whore house?"

BAWWWWWW They made fun of my giant virtual whorehouse.

Posted at 11:14PM on Oct 3rd 2007 by Bladentastic

11. I did not see the episode, but definitely now want to track down a copy; the comment I wanted to make, though, is that it's no surprise that a show like L&O:SVU would paint Second Life in about the worst way possible. This is precisely what the show's known for, in fact, and is actually a kind of inside joke among fans; that they have the magical ability to take just about any subject and portray it in the scariest, darkest way possible, as a comment on the teeming menace that lurks at all times just under the surface of our fragile polite society. I like the show, don't get me wrong; it's just that this is the show that about once a month somehow manages to feature yet another teenage home sex orgy gone horribly wrong, so it should come as no surprise that they would fixate on the darkest elements of virtual worlds as well.

Posted at 7:10AM on Oct 4th 2007 by Jason Pettus

12. I actually just now got done watching that episode, and am surprised that it's like a game so many of my friends play. I got on here to see if "Another YOUniverse" was real.. and then I ran across this. I didn't know it was really anything like Second Life, cause I've never played it, but now after seeing how much fun it may be, to roleplay on there, [not just sex stuff people! there are other types of roleplay of course] I think I may join haha. :]
I agree with your statement though, how their making internet games look negative.. Sure, some of the games you find on the web, are a little dirty, but at least they warn kids before you play them.

Posted at 11:24PM on Oct 6th 2007 by Brecca

13. I loved it. Does such a game really exist?

Posted at 9:28PM on Oct 7th 2007 by Sean St.Peter

14. I finally got to see this. It was HILARIOUS! My favorite quotes are...

"I can use my password to see everyone that he has ever interracted with."

"We've never turned the sun on before."

"This is going to freak out over 5 million people (when referring to turning the sun on)"

"He made an exact replica of the cabin by the lake where he kept his last kidnap victim!"

"This is when I bought my virtual car"

I couldn't stay annoyed because it was so fricking funny! Some 40 something guy read one article about ageplay in SL and went crazy with it! I bet so many soccer moms are scared of SL now! To quote Knocked Up "How much Dateline NBC can a person watch??"

Also, keep in mind this was prefaced by a kid who got away with raping the sister of the kidnap victim without a trial because he did it in his sleep. L&O definitely has lost their realistic edge!

Posted at 4:41PM on Oct 8th 2007 by SqueezeOne Pow

15. I saw it, and that episode made me want to find out if there was a real-life game like that. I knew that it wasn't a sex playground. Just like real life, some people are perverts. The show made it look interesting to me and I found it in the yahoo answers. So anyway, I'm glad Law and Order aired that show!

Posted at 4:10PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Kristie

16. The episode was ridiculous in its depiction of a faux-SL gaming community. The sex part was pretty accurate, actually, but the technical details, especially the tools the "Lindens" used to catch the bad guy, were ridiculously inaccurate.

And BOY are some people uptight about sex!

A wise man once said that half of the technical innovations of the 20th century came about so guys could get better porn. SL is no exception, and it's naive and provincial to thing otherwise.

Posted at 1:23PM on Oct 16th 2007 by Naz Fride

17. i'm a sl user (secondlife)and in SVU the fake sl is just like the real sl all theydid is take a part of sl its true that sl is used for legitimate business but the sex side of sl is very dark it has every thing from bdsm houses to rape clubs to romance islands its created by its users and their wants and needs sl even dabbles in the incest aspect of sex with daddy/daughter roleplays. ageplay is limited to ur own land but it still happens i have a friend who has this girl online and he had her have sex with her son and tape it and send it to him as i said it has everything but no one can get ur real name or address unless u give it to them so i think SVU just did what SVU dose and take something anything and make it in to a dark twisted story any one who has a problum with this are more then likly the same people who said marlyn mason was to blame for the coulmbine shooting. me and my friends onn sl do meny for the things that happened in SVU rape,kidnaping,bdsm,the "daddy"thing. hell there is an SVU store in sl where u can buy a great rape bed and a gas chamber. so it's amazeing that peolpe are disgusted by the aspect of it when in rl (real life) 14 year old girl are hooking up with 40 year old guys all the time people who blame tv and movies are just looking for something to blame other then them selves for their bad parenting.

Posted at 1:13PM on Oct 17th 2007 by horrorgrl

18. I don't think that there was any doubt in most people's minds that it was intended to represent SL.

Posted at 5:47AM on Oct 25th 2007 by Tateru Nino

19. I thought I should say something here, because, it seems no one happened to know this:

THOUGH the episode revolved around a 3D virtual world, it was not Second Life. None of it was filmed in Second Life. None of it dealt with any crew in Second Life, and it was never advertised as being Second Life.

Posted at 8:03AM on Oct 26th 2007 by Killashandra