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May 25, 2006
Sex-Interface-Aesthetics
"Sex-Interface-Aesthetics: The Docile Avatars and Embodied Pixels of Second Life BDSM" by Shaowen Bardzell and Jeffrey Bardzell of Indiana University is available online in pdf form for those of you interested in sexual content design.
We contend that virtual worlds enable the construction of a BDSM aesthetic that is connected to, yet distinct from, the real-life BDSM aesthetic, and that moreover the differences can largely be explained by structural forces associated with computer interfaces themselves.
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