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Real World Toys And Currency Turn The Legal World Upside Down: A Cross-Sectional Update On Virtual World Legalities, Ian W. Gillies
Real World Toys And Currency Turn The Legal World Upside Down: A Cross-Sectional Update On Virtual World Legalities, Ian W. Gillies
Ian W. Gillies
With 40 million members on the leading virtual world and overall user growth at 22%, some experts are saying virtual worlds are to the new millennium what websites were to the 90s. Just as the technological and economic growth of the internet drove numerous moral and legal issues to the forefront of society, so also will virtual world growth expand the overlapping moral and legal boundaries between virtual and real world experience. This paper provides a technology and market overview of virtual worlds and explores the intersection of some social and legal issues arising from the financial opportunity and virtual …
Why Sexual Prenetration Requires Justification, Michelle Dempsey, Jonathan Herring
Why Sexual Prenetration Requires Justification, Michelle Dempsey, Jonathan Herring
Michelle Madden Dempsey
This article defends the claim that sexual penetration is a prima facie wrong: it requires justification. We defend this claim by reference to considerations relating the use of physical force required to achieve sexual penetration, the occurrence and risk of harm posed by sexual penetration, and the negative social meaning of sexual penetration in patriarchal societies. The step we take in this article is a preliminary part of a larger project. We are not here directly concerned with questions of criminalisation; we aim simply to map the moral landscape of sexual penetration.