Being treated as a actual object is something every woman has to deal with.
In the real world there are laws and social norms, but in VR apparently nobody steps up if they see it happening. I can see this being a very unpleasant experience, and if behaviour like this becomes normal/acceptable in VR I can imagine it takes the fun out of it.<p>Also, groping in real life does not do the body any physical damage too. But it's still outlawed.
There is no denial that the author had an unpleasant experience, but it is nowhere close to what a real-life sexual assault feels like.<p>If I was the author I would choose different words to describe the experience out of respect of people who have been sexually assaulted in real life.
Nowhere in this article does the author say she was sexually assaulted, and if this was the original headline it has since been changed to the original medium post's headline: "My First Virtual Reality Groping"<p>This is, by the way, a repost of the medium post that was previously discussed here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777340" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777340</a><p>I think this version adds nothing to the original version, which has identical text.
If this qualifies as sexual assault then I have been murdered about 40,000 times between halo and cod. Articles like this do a disservice to actual victims of heinous acts.