Children online game promotes sex
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

An online game for children and teenagers in the UK is promoting sex the Herald Sun reports.

Outrage over online sex game for kids
Herald Sun, January 27th 2010

"An online game has caused outrage in Britain for encouraging children and teenagers to have sex and get pregnant.
The game, hosted on new virtual reality website Papermint, allows children to set up personal profiles, or "avatars", where they can indicate whether or not they enjoy having sex, The Sun reported.
Players are then able to form relationships with strangers and eventually become pregnant on the brightly-colored, cartoon-style website.
The game's creators say it is similar to 3D virtual world Second Life, except it has been specifically designed for young people.
The game has no lower age limit and at no point are users asked for their date of birth.
The website urges users to: "Get married! Have a paper baby! Get paper pregnant! ... It's so cute and quirky!
"Meet new people, make new friends, hit the bar scene, and flirt, flirt, flirt. You can even get married, have kids and start a family."
Peter Bradley, deputy director of U.K. children's charity Kidscape, said: "What on earth are they thinking?
"To encourage children to enable their avatar to have sex, become pregnant and then to talk about it to others is totally irresponsible.
"Kidscape also has concerns about communication between avatars - is the site moderated? If not, there are serious child protection concerns."..."

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