“The more seriously I took the notion of virtual rape, the less seriously I was able to take the tidy division of the world into the symbolic and the real that underlies the very notion of freedom of speech.” —Julian Dibbell
“Virtual reality has come to be not so much a fiction as a condition, an alternate way of relating with the world and with other human beings. Virtual existence has become so immediate that what constitutes ‘the real’ is called into question” —McRae, Shannon. “Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text, and the Virtual Body.” Internet Culture. Ed. David Porter. New York: Routledge, 1997