Lara first started playing Second Life to relief Real Life stress. Then she started roleplaying and she found herself in that situation: he said "I love you", she didnt know if it was 100% roleplay, a-little-percent Real Life or if Second Life is all about expectations and you have to lie in order to fulfil peoples desires.
Are we living Second Life with too many expectations?
"TabulaRasa" has four alts, four female avatars with one Sugar Daddy in each account. One is a recent widower, that is so depressed he wont go out of his house other than to go to work. And now he is paying her 200US$ to be his Sugar Daddy in Skype, and gives her all kinds of gifts in Second Life: Fatpacks of purses, shoes, amazing outfits. Even a beautiful skybox where she lives.
"They expect to be told certain things, to feel young and desired without the fear of rejection, so I give them the possibility of having what they always wanted: the security of a relationship in distance"
She also had a Sugar Daddy that she took to Skype that was actually married in Real Life, had the happiest family with 3 children. But he found out he had certain desires he couldnt share with his wife. So Tabula was there for him...in Second Life, in phonecalls and in videocalls. Not only when he wanted sex, also when he needed someone to talk to.
But it didnt make it a real feeling. She was only there because he was paying her to do what he expected.
Are we really willing to PAY someone to make us believe what we want even if it is far away from being real...?
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