Note: This article was written by a guest author, John Evans. He can be reached by email at jevans at alum dawt mit dawt edu (Yeah, you have to type it in, I'm not gonna cause a guest writer spam problems).

With all the talk about upcoming 3D sex games, it may be worthwhile to take a look at some of the more low-tech sex play environments that are being used right now. IRC is a text-based medium that has been in use for some years. Windows users can access it with an IRC program like mIRC. There are a multitude of sex channels on servers around the world, but some are more elaborate than just venues for chatting with random strangers.

Legends of Belariath is one such site. Often called The Lonely Inn or TLI after the virtual establishment where most of the activity happens, Legends of Belariath combines a website with an established IRC channel. Registration is required to read most of the webpages, but it's free. The site provides the setting and rules for roleplay on IRC, as well as a forum for non-realtime interactions. The real point, however, is the IRC channel.

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The Adult Rolplay Guide was originally meant as a guide to furry sex on text based virtual worlds, but it could easily cover any sort of sexual interaction in MMOs. There's a lot of interesting history contained in this page, as well as tips that those of us that regularly deal with a wide sample of the sexually active online population wish were common knowledge.

Of course, if your imagination has been absolutely ruined by years of [insert scapegoat pop culture medium here], you can always use the Adult Roleplay Scene Generator to come up with a fun situation for you and your fonted lover.

Reaching way back into the MUD/MUCK archive (and proving how incredibly far ahead of us graphics whores the text people are), we find a thesis called Texuality in Cyberspace. This paper from 1994 covers the many types of social interaction and influence that can happen in virtual worlds, including sex in cyberspace.

We've included the sex portion of the paper in the extended part of this entry, just in case the link to the refering page goes defunct.

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Clickable Culture's coverage of our Socio Rapist article made me realize that there's something amazingly obvious that we haven't covered here yet, and it'd be a sin to let it go on any longer.

A Rape In Cyberspace is probably one of the most oft-referenced articles when refering to Sex in Games. Written in 1993, it profiles a rape (in this case, a sort of account takeover) that happened on LambdaMOO, one of the first major online virtual worlds (still running today). Even though the article was written more than a decade ago, many of the issues contained are still valid for today's MMOGs, including feelings involved in character roleplay, and relationships build in worlds that exist in forms ranging from simple text to rich 3D graphics.

In the days before the words Linden and Blizzard were inappropriate names for children, there were vast virtual worlds on the computer that were free, hedonistic and impossibly outrageous.

The good news is -- they're still here...but cun u spel gud enuf 2 uz them? OMFG11!!!!1

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