HAVING FUN

There are so many things to do in a virtual world to have fun.

• You can go to the zoo - see amazing animals many of whom can talk with you.
• Or you can jump off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute - highly recommended
• You can spelunk in deep and hidden caves - one sim along has over 150 to explore.
• You can go to any number of experiential museums
• You can go to a western world, a jungle world, visit the Flintstones
• You can go see or build the highest mountain or the deepest sea
• You can swim with the sharks and come out alive
• You can go to coffee shops or Bible studies or book clubs or Bard's Tales by the drum circle fire.
• You can take a class in almost anything
• You can watch the Australian Open Tennis

Or fighting is another great way to have fun in a virtual world. Take your pent up emotions out on a practice dummy that explodes and spatters blood and guts everywhere; or better yet practice on another AV (Avatar, remember?) who will fall to the ground either "unconscious" or "dead" depending on how ferocious you are.

Then there is shopping -- although you can't drop, you can shop until you would drop. Since first clocking hours in this vaporous world, actual US dollars spent per day averages around $1 million (my gowns never cost THAT much!).

You can go dancing. That is surprisingly, a very popular sport or recreation, whatever it is. There are typically matched "pose balls" -- one pink for girls and the other blue for the boys. You click on them and then you dance more beautifully than John Travolta and Olivia Newton John in that film....you remember the one with only one-word name.....

Then There is Sex

Which I suspect is what you thought I would have started with. Sex, Sex, Sex!

Now here is a world where you can:

• Have sex
• Cyber
• Mind-f...
• Type f...
• Make Love
• Whatever you wish to call the act

Having sex in a virtual world is brought to you, typically, by those pink and blue pose balls again -- and if you ever thought about the Kamasutra in your life, you can be "cyber-satisfied" in more ways than you can imagine and in more physical positions than your body can possibly assume.

You aren't in this virtual world long before someone throws you to the ground or onto a lovely silken pasha's bed and "does the dirty" with you. At one place I visited with a new "friend" they even passed out instruction booklets about how to have cyber-sex successfully. Neat! (I saved these instructions for some time when I might need them, in the future. /me winks)

The fact is and always was (thanks to Meg Ryan's very healthy demonstration in "Harry Meets Sally" above) that without a doubt sex occurs in our heads in reaction to our thinking about what our bodies are feeling or hoping to feel - whether real or imagined (think of autogenic training here!)

So how will Lady Sheridanne have fun now? Well the truth is, she will rest and then throw herself, with gusto, back into her work and new responsibilities -- so she can't remember how to have fun anymore. And if Turner is half wise he will relax and take care of business - putting RL (real life) first and know Lady Sheridanne will support him while he is away. But when he gets back perhaps he can help Lady Sheridanne slow down and have some fun.