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IF YOU thought a virtual world like was a smorgasbord of experimental gender swaps, nerdy types engaging in kinky sex or entrepreneurs cashing in on real-world moneymaking possibilities, think again. It’s more humdrum than you’d imagine, according to anthropologist Tom Boellstorff. As on terra firma, people’s virtual selves go to bars, build homes, get married – and have affairs. Could Boellstorff be right that we’re all virtual humans anyway, viewing the world as we do through the prism of culture?