It is said in the last news which introduced this foreign On-Line Game (OLG), Second Life (SL), to Taiwanese OLG players that SL would become more and more popular and well-known among the world in the future because people can get chances to learn foreign languages. According to the interviewees’ opinions, there is another reason why SL attracts its users. Besides the convenience, it provides people from all over the world with communicative opportunities and visual sex at will. This makes SL much more different from other OLG. To figure out how users in SL perform this action, it is necessary to understand “Scripts” in SL first.
Basically, all the actions of avatars are designed through “Scripts” and these scripts can be attached to some objects. That means, avatars can do some particular actions by touching certain things in SL. Take dance for example. Avatars are not equipped with the ability to dance; however, if an avatar touches a dance pole, he/she would be able to do strip dance immediately. Unlike other OLGs, SL not only provides well-done objects to users, but also allows users to have more liberties in interacting with it, including creating things in SL. Another example is the performance of sex. Users are free to create whatever they want to make so objects attached with sex actions are made and the performance of sex becomes possible. Nowadays, players can find these special objects in “Mature” areas, in which adult behaviors are allowed and these actions are performed by their avatars. As a result, SL nowadays draws more users to seek for visual sex instead of other purposes. This may attract Taiwanese OLG players to visit SL, too. If so, they will need to take a job first because those special objects are provided at high prices.
