Alcyan: Alvise, do you think Second Life is the unique virtual world where people can follow the BDSM lifestyle, freely, open-minded and safe?
Alvise Cliassi smiles: I don't know other virtual words, even if I know SL very well, being here by 7 years but I can reply to you talking about the difference between RL and SL
Alcyan: yes I was planning to get to that
Alvise Cliassi: I started to practice the lifestyle here in SL, then, after I met Marion in SL and RL as well, now we're together in both worlds.
I can tell you, SL can be a good way for start and learn, a kind of projection of yourself, not simply a simulation and can open yourself to live the same in RL too, if you're prudent enough, and you *really* learned about safety. For sure SL can give you some "deeper" experiences if you want to, here we life a RL-like lifestyle but if you want to get out the "reality" and start the role play, then in SL the possibilities are almost infinite.
I had and sometime have those experiences, and I appreciate SL because allows me to live them in safety
Alcyan: did you practice this lifestyle before joining Sl or Sl was a way for you to discover it, adopt and practice it?
Alvise Cliassi: I understood I was a Dominant before joining SL but I had no means to make myself a clear mind about it, before to join SL
Alcyan: how easy or hard it was for you, did you make "mistakes" on behavior, did SL helped you (you practicing it in SL) to improve yourself?
Alvise Cliassi: SL helped me to move from the "sexual sadist" stage to the educated Master one ... meaning, that I was able to leave the part where I was simply satisfying my primal needs, and move over to understand myself in a whole as person ... and yes, this helped me to find a better balance in SL but even in RL
Alcyan: Marion would you like to share your RL experience as a sub in comparison to your SL one?
Marion Fadlan smiles: lately my RL experiences have changed due to my relationship with my Master and my RL experiences with BDSM with Him cover more the experiences I have with it in SL
I think that the SL experiences prior and during our relationship have deepened our bond; I got the opportunity to know Him well before we practiced BDSM in RL, my trust in Him already settled
Alcyan: how was Your first time?
Marion Fadlan: my first exposure to BDSM RL was confusing; it was a local BDSM club and the building had two main rooms, the first one closest to the door was kind of café, people were sitting on seats around tables and the bar. I easily got into conversation with the people there and it was like coming home. They understood me without me extensively explaining. So I drank a coffee and talked a bit and felt really comfortable, then somebody offered me to show the club.