Metaverse virtual world called out for sexual assault

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A woman in the United Kingdom (UK) wrote in her on Medium narrating her experience of being sexually harassed in the virtual game ‘Horizon Worlds’ by Meta, formerly known as Facebook. 

“Within 60 seconds of joining, I was verbally and physically harassed by 3-4 male avatars, with male voices. Essentially, but virtually gang-raped my avatar,” she wrote. She further explained about watching her avatar undergo sexual assault by the male avatars.

She added that they took photos and sent her offensive comments along the lines of “don’t pretend you didn’t love it”. The woman is also serves as the vice president of Metaverse Research for Kabuni Ventures, an immersive technology company.

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Patel received a fair share of criticism. After publishing her post, several people said that it was just a public stunt to gain attention. However, there were some users who expressed concern for assaulting and sexually harassing in a virtual space and asked Meta to address the issue. Some people suggested her to avoid using female avatar.

In response to the mixed reviews, Patel cited a 2009-peer reviewed study investing the “proteus effect”. The study highlighted people’s behaviour based on the attractiveness of their avatar, and offline.

She also said how Metaverse is becoming increasingly immersive and this incident has left her in utter shock.

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Joseph Jones, president of Bosco Legal Services, an investigation agency said that Patel’s case of is not eligible enough to qualify as sexual harassment but acknowledged that harassment in metaverse is an emerging space.

“With the large majority of harassment that takes place online, even if it criminally actionable, you would be hard-pressed, I would say almost impossible, to find a law enforcement body legitimately volunteering to help,” Jones said.

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