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Bonnie Ruberg's story at Wired takes a look at the cyberporn market in Linden Labs' alternate reality, Second Life. One SL resident began publishing a magazine in-game called Slustler, which is essentially a Playboy-type magazine for the digital realm. Slustler only takes female avatars into its e-pages, but the word is, in the coming months they'll be taking users real-life photographs and publishing them beside their avatars' naked form. That's going to ruin the mystique, isn't it?

Cyberporn Sells in Virtual World [Wired]