Commercial Sex and Virtual Reality: Criminal Law Aspect

Abstract

The article discusses the actual criminal legal issues related to the spread of sexual crimes using the meta-space and involving prostitution in the information and telecommunication Internet, as well as recommendations for improving counteracting these phenomena. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that commercial sex in the digital era is actively transformed, thanks to the development of technology, such as virtual reality, metavsella and artificial intelligence. These innovations open up new opportunities to satisfy intimate needs, but at the same time create challenges for the legal system and society. The authors conclude that the law enforcer can adapt existing practices in order to protect society from new threats, maintaining a balance between innovation and safety, at the same time, without creating artificially new corpus delicti. With these negative manifestations, it is possible to fight with the help of existing norms if added to them, taking into account the processes that appear in metamir.