Metaverse App Allows Your Kids to Visit Strip Clubs, View Simulated Sex…
by Hannah Nightingale at The Post Millennial
An undercover researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl has exposed “dangerous” Metaverse app that allows children to enter virtual strip clubs, view simulated sex, and experience exposure to a number of inappropriate and “unspeakable” topics.
BBC News researcher Jess Sherwood created a fake profile to set up an account, where her real identity was not checked, and used an app with a minimum age rating of 13.
In VRchat, the researcher was able to visit virtual-reality rooms where 3D avatars were seen simulating sex. She was shown sex toys and condoms, and said she was approached by numerous adult men.
While not created by Meta itself, the app can be downloaded from an App Store on the Meta Quest headset, previously known as the Oculus Quest. The app has no age verification checks, and only requires the person to have a Facebook account.
While not all VRchat rooms contain explicit content, some are McDonald’s restaurants, other rooms include pole dancing and strip clubs, with children being able to freely mingle with adults with little checks on age restricted content.
Sherwood said some of the rooms felt “similar to what you might see in the red light district in Amsterdam or in the more seedy parts of London’s Soho at night.”
According to the BBC, one man told the researcher that avatars can “get naked and do unspeakable things.” Others talked about “erotic role-play”.
The researcher also experienced grooming behaviors, racist insults, and a rape threat during her time in the app…
