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Being part of the young generation that has more or less grown up with the Internet curiously doesn’t mean one can’t feel hopelessly old-fashioned and lost when confronted with some of the oddities of the virtual world. A bit like parents at the start of the current century witnessing their offspring only functioning socially with a mobile phone attached to their ear. But I’m losing track here. What I’m talking about is the virtual world of coupling. Which makes me feel like an old fashioned lady reminiscing the good old days when kids still believed masturbation causes blindness, because despite seeing the positive aspects and having spoken to couples who have found their fairytale ending with their match made in cyberspace I can’t help but feel slightly unsettled at the thought of some computer technology finding compatible partners. And I’ve just lost track again. I blame this on having lost track in general after having come across some online phenomena, which has left me slightly confused. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, pity or judge, try to make sense or just forget.

At this point I’m so off track that I need someone to tell me how to process the following: In Second Life it is apparently possible to have ones avatar engage in all sorts of fantastic sex practices, one of which is this: You avatar can masturbate. It can do that while looking at online-porn! So there is someone sitting in front of a laptop, looking at his or her virtual self masturbating in front of a virtual laptop. That’s it. I have no more words. I’ll just let this stand for itself and tell you this fun fact can be found in the following research paper: 'Now The Orgy is Over' by Dennis D. Waskul and  Justin A. Martin.