Ok, so the blog’s mandate has never been to actually serve up the ladies, despite what it’s name sake might indicate, but hot damn, this here story just can’t not go up….
mmm, tasty pixellation
“A couple have divorced after the husband was caught having a “virtual affair” with a female character in an online game. David Pollard and Amy Taylor met in an online chat room in 2003 and married after discovering a shared love of the internet game Second Life […] To his wife’s horror, Mr Pollard’s interaction included virtual infidelity with a female character playing the role of a prostitute. Ms Taylor said yesterday that her husband had been guilty of the “ultimate betrayal”, even though he had never met the real person behind his online affair […]
The couple met in an internet chat room in May 2003 and within six months Ms Taylor had moved from London to Mr Pollard’s flat in Newquay, Cornwall. They married at a register office in St Austell in July 2005 and held a virtual wedding for their avatars in Second Life. While their online characters are young, and slim, in real life there is a lot more to Ms Taylor and the balding Mr Pollard.
whoah! pasty titillation!!!
Ms Taylor’s suspicions were aroused in 2007 and she hired a Second Life private investigator. The virtual sleuth, called Markie MacDonald, caught Dave Barmy in flagrante and he apologised to his online and real world wives.
Ms Taylor said: “It has been a very difficult time. I am now just trying to move on with my life. People find love in lots of different ways. Ours was a very serious marriage. It may have started online but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much now it is over.
Taylor is now in a new relationship with a man she met in the online roleplaying game World of Warcraft.
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