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Ageplay or age play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts and/or treats another as if they were a different age. The practice can be regressive, in which the goal is to re-experience childhood, or sexual, recreating a sexual relationship with people of the pretend and/or true ages. Generally this can involve someone pretending to be younger than they actually are, but more rarely can involve assuming an older role.

Sexual ageplay

Sexual variations may include among other things incest play, in which individuals recreate and sexualize roles within a family, and Daddy's girl fetishism in which real or imagined age differences are the basis of the roleplaying and the female is portrayed as the younger partner.

Ageplay is not considered to be related to pedophilia.

Prohibition in Second Life

Linden Lab, the parent company of the Second Life virtual community, banned sexual ageplay on their virtual world after several individuals were found using childlike avatars and enacting sexual acts. The actions were perceived as a form of virtual child pornography and prohibited.

Non-sexual ageplay

In non-sexual ageplay, people act as if they were a different age without the involvement of sexual acts, often with the goal of reliving childhood.

See also

• Paraphilic infantilism

References

• Aggrawal, Anil (2009). Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 1420043080.

Footnotes

1. Sybil Holiday; Henkin, Bill; Henkin, William A. (1996). Consensual Sadomasochism : How to Talk About It and How to Do It Safely. Daedalus Publishing Company. pp. 60. ISBN 1-881943-12-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Weiss, MD (2006). "Working at play: BDSM sexuality in the San Francisco Bay area". Anthropologica. 48 (2): 229–246. doi:10.2307/25605313. JSTOR 25605313.
3. Aggrawal, 2008, p. 121.
4. Aggrawal, 2008, 147.
5. Benjamin Duranske (2008). Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds. Chicago, Ill: American Bar Association. pp. 205. ISBN 1-60442-009-X.

• Sexual roleplay
• Sexuality and age