Rapist, At Your Service, Madam
by Alphaville Herald on 08/04/09 at 11:22 pm
by Alessandra Narayan
Roleplay themes are always controversial, right? Especially when it comes to sex and even so morewhen it’s about rough sex, hardcore, and reaching the imaginary worldof forbidden fantasies.
Of course everyone knows there are certain thingsyou must do to keep it safe - starting with not being specific about reallife details. Also, everyone should know that roleplay in Second Life is absolutelyconsensual: you don’t have to visit those areas, you can avoid them,you can teleport away if the guy/girl you’re playing with is a totalasshole, you can report him/her to Linden Labs, you can simply mutethem. What else do you need?
Anyway, I’ve decided to interview one avery talented roleplayer, Mr. Rendell Carter, an expert inrape as he usually spends his time at«The Mansion» or «Republic of Hayao».
Is his RP personality scary?Yes, of course. But in this interview, Rendell explains the big differencesand the long paths going from fantasy to reality.
Alessandra Narayan(AN) – What do you like most in SL?
Rendell Carter(RC) – The most interesting aspect of SL is that it’s a sort ofgiant laboratory in which the following question is posed: «How mightwomen act if they were invulnerable and anonymous?»
AN– Acting invulnerable and anonymous…how does that make you feel?
RC– I’m invulnerable and anonymous, too… of course. But I thinkthe interesting point is how it makes the women around me feel. Mentypically are «safe» compared to women – less concerned with ourown security, so the difference in behavior is, I think, somewhat different!
AN– So, the most interesting thing on SL for you is women’s behavior?
RC– Well… in a sense. Their behavior as a way of understandingtheir minds. Another key aspect, of course, is that the women who haveordinary bodies in 1st Life can have whatever body they wish to here.
AN– Is your second life totally dedicated to roleplaying?
RC– Yes, that’s kind of a title there. Of course, things go wrong– sometimes in a funny way. Rendell may set out to rape someone, slipon a banana peel and knock himself out. One of the women may get theupper hand… various scenarios occur – but certainly I’m always «after»sex… of some rather dark sort or another.
AN– Do you play other roles besides rapist in other sims/RP scenariosfor example?
RC– There are shades of things here. Certainly I’m almost alwaysthe sexual aggressor. Certainly in the two or three places I play regularly,the deck is stacked so that the women are likely to be my victims, ratherthan my lovers. On the other hand, I spend a lot of time in sexual RPplaygrounds simply reading profiles and chatting with folks – so Iguess, since that’s not really RP, I must amend my answer… probably60% of my time is spent RP’ing sex scenarios, and the rest is spentsimply chatting OOC, while my avatar stands and looks vacantly.
AN– Why your preference on rape? Why choosing such an unattractive AV?
RC– When I first appeared in SL, I had the default avatar… andI looked around. «Everyone» looked like a superhero in Armani.
AN– And the preference for being a sexual agressor, a rapist?
RC– Rendell is the sort of manifestation of my darker fantasies,particularly my early adolescence … an aggressive, oversexed man whocan force the frustratingly/uncooperative women around him to come across.I sort of backed into this: I was touring the various places in SL thatwere labeled «Adult» and found the Mansion. I observed for a few days,found myself interested, and found myself acting as the other men did,but maybe more coarsely!
AN– When you go to public places and people read your profile… wereyou ever insulted for roleplaying as a rapist?
RC– Oddly, no. There was one griefer who appeared in the mansionand IM’ed me on that point, but it wasn’t «public» in that sense.Let me say that it would be a little like being mean to Anthony Hopkins,the actor who played a cannibalistic murderer in «Silence of the Lambs».He’s not really a cannibal. I’m not really a rapist.
AN – Whatare your thoughts about LL’s concerns on some hardcore/mature sims?New restrictions seem to be coming up…
RC– I discovered RP on SL, and became kind of a specialist here.But the nature of 21st century communication is that socialnetworks of various sorts get created, linked up, and break down ina fashion unimaginable just 30 years ago. If the Lindens restrict SLtoo much, folks will go elsewhere. I don’t fully understand the restrictionsthat people have talked about, but as near as I can tell, they hopeto segregate adult content without otherwise interfering with it. «If»that’s all they’re doing, I’m OK with it.
dickburns
Apr 13th, 2009
I still say anyone who supports making light of such a serious crime is sick beyond repair. Try and justify your degenerate behavior all you want normal people see you for what you really are.
Posted by: Debi Dastardly | April 12, 2009 at 06:28 PM
yeah, zoophiles! debi and I feel strongly about this!
GTFO FURFAGS
corona Anatine
Apr 13th, 2009
serious crime is sick beyond repair. Try and justify your degenerate behavior all you want normal people
another commentator who appears to be of the opinion that their veiwpoint defines normality for everyone and everything that deviates from their personal veiws is therefore sick/ perverse/degenerate/evil
I too consider a rape sim in negative terms -but i dont have to go there, and on a scale of things that matter in the world a pretend rapist whose only victims are those who consent to be there does not rate very high
opoosing rapists and child molesters is a good thing however many of the arguements used here are bordering on attacking others for ‘thought crime’
my problem with such arguements is not that they attack what has no defence but the fact that they display a deep lack of objectivity about people who do no share their veiwpoints
whilst the arguements are not themselves facist- they are at the top of a steep slope that leads there
it is like the arguments about cctv – yes only the criminal need fear them – but who defines the laws of the next government- or the one after that ?
people should always aim to be aware of their own prejudices it is the only way to avoid walking blindly down the road that leads to tyranny
Orion
Apr 13th, 2009
And once again the users of SL have proven they have a combined intellect the likes of a potato bug. I’ve said and defended my views. There’s no further point in responding to insults.
**Duck walks away with his hand in the air – saluting “Satan” and his followers.**
At0m0 Beerbaum
Apr 14th, 2009
Uh oh, dont wake up the rape spider.
VoiceOfReality
Apr 15th, 2009
Re: lol; “How come you guys act like society somehow violated your rights by expecting you to not rape people?”
I see no-one acting like that… I do see some comments trying to make ppl understand that this is NOT rape, since no-one is being forced to have sex. Also, the age-old line ‘cant rape the willing’ applies here, because if the ‘victim’ is not willing, they have multiple options to avoid this. Thus, one can assume that the ‘victims’ are indeed willing. Unless of course someone’s with them in RL behind the computer threatening them with violence.
No harm, no foul. Specially if all parties involved are quite happy and satisfied with the way things are.
If however, someone decides that Rendell shouldnt be allowed to do his thing and silence him (in whatever way) then I’d say yeah, rights are being violated. There are no laws against saying (or writing) what you want, on the contrary even. Freedom of speech also applies to those who have something to say that you might not like, as it should in every civilized country. and as far as I know (been a while since I last checked) the USA is still one of those countries.
To Satan:
Aside from calling names, and replying in the typical ‘cant win an internet argument with arguments like a grownup’ way, I have yet to see your arguments against my last comment. I’ll keep checking, but dont expect much.
To Debi: “Try and justify your degenerate behavior all you want normal people see you for what you really are.”
Normal people, I concider the ones who value everyone’s right to say and write what they want. Not the kind of people who have the opinion only they and the ones who share their viewpoints are allowed to speak. Nor do I concider people who think pretend equals real to be anywhere near normal.
Degenerate, I classify as getting your panties in a twist because of something you see complete strangers do on the internet that you dont agree with. I’d pull the cord out of the wall and never ever venture out on the internet again if something like this already gets you going… there are far, far ‘worse’ things out there. Or better… depending on your tastes.
No-one is breaking any laws, no-one is getting hurt. Stop caring so much about other people, especially about their fetishes, care about yourself and those close to you. cause lets face it, those are the only people that really matter.
Satan
Apr 15th, 2009
@VoiceOfReality
Nope, sorry but you’re wrong. People’s thoughts invariably influence their actions and being obsessed with rape is a bad thing. As far as I am concerned you are already a rapist even if you haven’t committed the crime yet because your unhealthy obsession will inevitably manifest in the real world if you do not let go of it.
It isn’t the same thing as GTA because in games like GTA, despite the fact that players are able to kill pixels that represent innocent victims, the person isn’t obsessing with the act of killing. They’re playing a game that involved a lot more than that. Someone who is actually obsessed with murder would be cause for concern in contrast. The very same type of concern that society as a whole has over people like you.
This whole argument isn’t about legal or illegal or even banning thoughts. I suppose if your kid told you he was fascinated by murder and he liked to pretend he was killing people for hours every day, disemboweling them and performing the act in great detail in Second Life that wouldn’t concern you? LOL! It’s enough to get a person committed. And let’s not mince any words here, in order for it to be equivalent to what you’re doing he’d have to be really into it, wouldn’t he? Yup, down to every single chilling detail. From choosing the victim, to taunting them and/or torturing them, imagining the victims screaming in pain, to removing limbs and innards to disposing of the body and you know damn well that I haven’t even scratched the surface of it. That’s some gruesome shit but there are supposedly people out there doing that too and you know what? I believe they are dangerous people that will end up hurting someone.
People who obsess over serial killers are different. They are learning about what a person did, not fantasizing about committing an act of violence. There are plenty of psychologists and people in law enforcement that study these individuals. The majority of interest generated in serial killers is due to the fact that the crimes they committed were so horrific that society is having a hard time understanding how their minds worked and why they did what they did. I’m sure it’s more complicated than this but I’m willing to bet that those murderers obsessed with killing for a long time before they actually killed someone. I hate to burst your bubble, but you’re no different and your arguments are absurd.
I was disappointed because your tone became rather whiny in your last comment. It was resonant of typical furry cries of persecution but I guess that comes as no surprise considering that I picked up on that attitude in rape fantasy advocates over a page ago. It still doesn’t matter how you try and distort the constitution and twist the definition of normal (as though it were relative like that), if you ask 10 random people on the street how they feel about rape fantasy most likely the majority of them will physically attack you. Normal is what the majority of people regard as acceptable and your obsession is not only perceived as abnormal, but it is also threatening in a way, hence the black eyes you’ll have if you do as I suggested. I suppose ‘normal’ can be relative depending on the culture (apparently it’s ‘normal’ to you and your rapist pals to be rapists) but in this case it is pretty clear that you’d be abnormal no matter what country you reside in and you know it. Join your yiff-pals on the short bus. I’m still the e-pissing match champion, kthxbai.
Satan
Apr 15th, 2009
BTW, I wasn’t talking about normal for you or for your friends. I am talking about normal in terms of what the majority of the world’s populace finds acceptable. That means that more than 50 percent of over 6 billion people would basically consider you a rapist. I’d put that somewhere closer to 8 out of 10 people and that’s actually on the conservative side. In some countries you’d probably be killed but most of that majority would just find your views objectionable and see you as a potential threat to the safety of others. Around 60 percent of those people would be tempted to attack you in a face to face encounter in which you profess your love for rape and a smaller fraction would actually attack you over it. The number of people tempted to attack you and the number of people that do would change depending on how you present your views but there is no way that you’d be able to convince the majority of people that your view is correct.
The amazing thing about this is that it’s practically impossible to get 3 billion people to agree on ANYTHING yet most likely AT LEAST 5 billion people would consider you to be a rapist based on your rape fantasies alone if they were told about them. If you don’t believe me then start pulling aside random people and finding out. You’ll find that while my figures are approximate, they’re surprisingly accurate. Then again, I understand people pretty well which I can only assume comes from having a life instead of raping people on the internet or spending countless hours fantasizing about sticking my dick in barnyard animals and whatever else you people do.
Orion
Apr 16th, 2009
@ Satan -
All this coming from one who claims to already support illegal activities such as drug use? A self proclaimed bisexual homophobe who uses terms such as “furfag”? Who mind you suddenly claims he’s an AIDS patient once its convenient to his argument. Gee, I could call bull shit on that one but out of common respect I’ll let it slide. I don’t know your real life story and you don’t know mine. For all I know you’re sitting behind your PC wearing a set of furry wolf ears while for all you know I’m sitting behind mine wearing a pink tutu and a wrestling mask. Character assassinations based on presumptive logic can go both ways ya know. Just ask Fox News!
Now going by your logic Steven King is mentally ill for devising that scene from The Shining where the woman in bath tub seduces and then sexually assaults the caretaker. Most of the stories Wes Craven has come up with would classify him as the same. What about Frankenstein movies? Those could be viewed as necrophilia. Same with any vampire movie which portrays the undead seducing the living. How about stories involving werewolves? Those could be classified as downright cannibalism.
Are you saying that the people who wrote these stories are deviants? How about those who read and enjoy them?
TheVoiceOfReason
Apr 16th, 2009
Thank you Satan,
I’ve steered clear of this thread for a few days, out of frustration. I have not heard anyone say anything about banning, arresting, or criminalizing what Rendell does. My original point, and I’m trying to say this as clearly as I possibly can.
The individual, who created, and controls the avatar Rendell Carter has an unhealthy obsession with an act of violence. He has chosen to make the simulation of this act of violence, an important part of his identity. He needs a therapist. He doesn’t need to be arrested, he doesn’t need to be banned. He needs to get out from behind his computer, take the bus, drive a car, walk or ride his bike and see a professional counselor, psychiatrist, therapist, or shrink, whatever he wants to call it. He is NOT well.
I am concerned for him, his neighbours, and his co-workers. Rendell, I’m not sure if you’re reading this, please, please, please talk to someone.
Satan
Apr 17th, 2009
Wrong, Orion, I do not advocate the use of cannabis where it is still illegal (publicly anyway) and the article I wrote was advocating marijuana law reform which is a completely different thing. Even if I did advocate the illegal use of cannabis, how does that compare to you advocating rape? Oh yes because smoking a joint is just like raping someone? It’s been proven that cannabis is far less harmful than alcohol. In fact, science has been unable to determine an LD-50 for it. You can overdose on aspirin, water, alcohol, and just about everything else. It is quite literally physically impossible to consume enough marijuana to die and the drug has medicinal value. In my article I interviewed Lester Grinspoon, a professor of Harvard Medical School and he acknowledged that it could and should be used for a plethora of conditions. What so-called ‘institution of higher education’ do you work for? LOL!
As far as the AIDS thing goes, I’m pretty sure you’re just trolling but I guess I’ll oblige you anyways. Here is a google search for my real first and last name with the term ‘marijuana’:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=joshua+mccracken+marijuana&btnG=Search
Notice that the article was in print and on the web long before this article was even a thought. Feel stupid yet? We aren’t even finished.
The entire first page of the google search with the exception of a single result shows links to an article that I wrote about my AIDS diagnosis and medical marijuana that is in print all over my locale and was picked up by numerous international activist groups, the most recent is LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). I did not ‘suddenly’ claim to have AIDS, where the fuck have you been? It’s actually old news. If you did any research at all, you’d find that I am deadlycodec.
Additionally, I think it goes without saying that I am not a self-proclaimed bisexual homophobe, you know, since being one is actually impossible in every sense of the word ‘homophobe’. I think the mistake that you’re making is that you’re assuming that all gays and/or bisexuals are flamboyant furries such as yourself. Project much? It’s good that the term ‘furfag’ insulted you. It was meant to insult you. If you were just plain gay as opposed to fantasizing about screwing barnyard animals in the ass then there’d be nothing wrong with you IMO. Except the rape thing which is pretty big too.
One of your other mistakes is that you are still comparing rape fantasy to profit driven literary work. If Steven King had an obsession with rape it’d be cause for concern too. Does the fact that he wrote a rape scene mean that he’s obsessed with it? Absolutely not but I’ve already made that point. Your IQ is quite obviously to low to ‘get it’.
The behavior you’re engaging in, on the other hand, is compulsive. According to you and others it lasts for hours at a time and is extraordinarily detailed. Therein lies the concern. Compulsive behaviors are near impossible to control if the compulsion is ever-present. It isn’t like someone getting the urge to do something wrong and resisting a few times until it goes away. The longer you have these compulsions, the more likely you are to give into them. Hence, it can be inferred that you are a threat to society.
Sadly, for a ‘professor’ your arguments lost more substance with your last comment than I thought possible. I think it comes down to you being trolled basically. Good luck with that.
In closing, I’d like you to know, ‘professor’, that I got a GED in the 9th grade and I haven’t even attended school since. So how does it feel when someone with basically a 9th grade education can utterly tear your argument to shreds? I bet it feels even worse if you actually are a professor. PROTIP: Don’t quit your day job.
ichabod Antfarm
Apr 17th, 2009
finally a PN fucktard has made me LOL “The article was met with overwhelmingly positive responses from readers and even garnered national attention from NOR” blah blah blah.
Welcome to oblivion, you cringing juvenile.
Satan
Apr 17th, 2009
Yeah I bet the fact that you’re convinced that I should be arrested by the FBI for denial-of-service and I’ve gotten away with it must really make you ‘LOL’. when you consider that I ended up writing for a newspaper with almost no formal education and making more money than you do (in all probability), in spite of all of the things that I did rather blatantly, it is rather hilarious. For me. Trolled much?
Satan
Apr 17th, 2009
BTW I’m not cringing either. You know my real name and one of the organizations that I work for. Getting my current address wouldn’t be difficult if you were intelligent. Put up or shut up.
lol
Apr 17th, 2009
@Ichabod Antfarm
Oblivion? You already there?
Where I come from it is unacceptable to tell a dying person ‘HAHA YOU’RE DYING’ because they harassed you in Second Life, which is how I interpreted what you said. That makes you the juvenile one. I wouldn’t wish that sort of thing on my worst enemy. Griefing may be wrong but the consequence isn’t a death sentence nor should it be. Grow up, you fucking asshole.
Satan
Apr 18th, 2009
@Ichabod Antfarm
I’m not sure how to interpret that because the idea that you could be so butthurt over someone disrupting your video game that you’d find delight in the fact that they’re diagnosed with a terminal disease is astonishing. You think people deserve a slow death for disrupting your video game? That’s about as ‘juvenile’ as you can get. It also makes you an asshole. Grow up.
I mean seriously, “welcome to oblivion”? How self absorbed must you be to even think like that. I wouldn’t react with smugness and delight even if my worst enemy came down with a terminal disease. I know exactly who I despise more than any other person I have ever known and I’m pretty sure that the horrors that person put me and my family through during my childhood can’t even compare to disrupting a fucking video game.
You really are pretty pathetic.
durr
Apr 18th, 2009
yeah i too delight in the deaths of people who drop boxes on me, just like you SL idiots don’t know anything about “rape” because you’re too busy yiffing your e-buddies rather than going outside. go fellate ron paul and stop calling everyone else “juvenile” when you sound like a whiny 13 year old who just got his xbox taken away and tells his dad to go die
faget
Apr 21st, 2009
lol what a freak “Hello I am an internet rapist I enjoy rape but I AM NOT A RAPIST, I only have a STRONG URGE TO RAPE EVERYTHING I am 100% normal” B)
secondlifeslut
Apr 27th, 2009
@Satan
“I think it’s amazing that all of the sexual deviants are coming out of the woodwork to defend a practice like this. Such as whoever that idiot was up there trying to defend ageplay. People who are engaging in rape fantasies and ageplay are *SHOCK* shown to have predispositions to this sort of behavior in real life. This means that you’re most likely a real life rapist and whoever-the-fuck is probably a real life child molester. ”
Really? Would you care to cite a source for this? I’d be very interested in reading up on the case studies that were done to arrive at this conclusion.
@ the rest of the anal retentive crowd who think people should not do what you don’t want them to:
FOAD. As stated time and again. It is fantasy, it is fiction. It is nothing more than creating little stories. Some short, some going on for long periods of time. One guy and I have spent well over 80 hours over the last 5 or 6 months creating a home invasion story. Ultimately, a rape story yes, but of the 80 hours, maybe 4 have been predominately sexual.
I remember when Silence of the Lambs came out. Watching the movie, thinking to myself “geeze, some guy actually had to THINK this stuff up! Somebody actually had these thoughts in his head! What kind of sick person can think this stuff up?” LOL – now I know, I’m one of them, with the proper environment, I can become very sick indeed. But everyone I have interacted with, whether I’m being raped, or I’m raping them, has a firm grasp on what is the difference between reality and fiction.
With all of this, I have to wonder, what’s worse? A man that spends 60% of his online time (note: this is NOT 60% of his entire life – not all of use are big enough losers to spend ALL of our time in SL) raping girls – or people like me, who have spent maybe 80% of my time (in the past, it has become somewhat passe lately) kidnapping men, and turning them into hose and heel wearing sissy whores? Hmmm? (ha! told ya I could be sick)
Ginger
Mar 23rd, 2010
The funny thing is. That some people enjoy this for reasons you might not even understand. I personally don’t mind the whole rape scenario and i will tell you why. Because I get to CONTROL something that I had no CONTROL over when it happened to me. I am not actually being raped in this instance. As I can stop anytime that I please. So why don’t you try to understand it from someone else’s perspective before calling it sick.
Chelle
Aug 22nd, 2010
It’s all a fantasy. No big deal. It’s a well known fact that in America, at least, many polls indicate that a top ten fantasy amongst women is to be ravished against her will by a man. The violence is to various degrees, mind you, but it’s really about the loss of control.
To censor fantasy is wrong. Movies and literature will be next. Would the film “Precious” have been as powerful without the incest and rape? No.
Let us have our fantasies.
Affrika Pfeffer
Apr 26th, 2011
Us girls at the mansion love you to death Rendell!
Yep
Apr 26th, 2011
“lol what a freak “Hello I am an internet rapist I enjoy rape but I AM NOT A RAPIST, I only have a STRONG URGE TO RAPE EVERYTHING I am 100% normal” B)”
lol no kidding. What a group of nut cases.