Jiituomas ([info]jiituomas) wrote,
@ 2009-03-16 14:12:00
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Online role-play of the Master/slave kind.
A very nice paper which I had the pleasure of pre-reading and commenting last year, on Gorean role-play in Second Life, is now online. It was written by Tjarda Sixma, and published in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 1(3). Here is a link. It's of particular interest to people who are interested in seeing a rather different sort of online BDSM-type dynamic.


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[info]thoughtsfromid
2009-03-16 12:36 pm UTC (link)
That was interesting read. A bit superficial, though. I guess it's understandable and all.

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(Anonymous)
2009-03-16 10:48 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the link, I guess I'll undoubtedly refer to this sooner or later. But I agree with previous commenter: it was a bit superficial. Also, I would have appreciated much less political correctness when discussing the (politically incorrect) behavior that (probably) takes place in that community.

- M

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[info]jiituomas
2009-03-17 06:40 am UTC (link)
I agree on your views on the depth. However, the way I see it, it's meant to be an easily approached, introductory ethnographic piece. Of the "this sort of phenomenon exists" kind. To go deeper - on either the political incorrectness or the nature of the play that takes place there - the whole approach would have had to be quite different. As she states, she intentionally chose this way, and thus announces the limit herself. It's a paper to build further research upon, an arousal of interest rather than a full description.

Any description on this smaller than a book like Mains' would, in my opinion, be "a bit superficial". :)

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