Considering how much effort it takes to get anywhere in Second Life, it amazes me that people have the gall to complain about offensive material. “Mature” areas are off-limits by default: you have to check the box to allow yourself to search for them. You need coordinates to teleport there or the patience to walk or fly your avatar around from the g-rated welcome areas to something more risque. (I don’t get enough time there to know if you even can walk to explicit neighborhoods without first changing a setting to grant access to adult content.) Second Life doesn’t allow children or teens — teenagers have their own grid — so every resident has taken the oath that they are at least 18.
I wonder if the recent shenanigans have pushed former residents and curious newbies toward Red Light Center NSFW instead?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Peregrine // Jun 13, 2007 at 9:25 am
I find that 8 times out of 10 people don’t do the extra effort to check things out for themselves. They hear “somewhere” that there’s porn out there, and refuse to go in for fear of finding it.
For a good couple of years my sister thought that Yahoo was exclusively for porn, without ever bothering to find out what it really was.
My aunt insists that she “doesn’t go to Web pages”, but we still can’t figure out how she manages to shop online.
Some of the more self-righteous might get indignant about it, and launch law suits. Their beef isn’t with the Web, or with SecondLife. They don’t even know what it is. They just know that “there’s porn out there, and we have to stop it.”
So you and I might have to look extra hard to find what we’re looking for, while others never bother going in there in the first place for fear that the first thing they’ll see is hard core sex.
2 regina lynn // Jun 13, 2007 at 9:35 am
Or for fear that they’ll see it and it will make them feel “funny” inside … and that they’ll like it.
HA. HA. HA.
3 FlipperPA // Jun 13, 2007 at 9:44 am
While these are excellent points, Regina, you’re forgetting that Second Life is in many ways just like first life… right down to the schmucks who have nothing better to do than hold their nose high in the air, proclaim moral superiority, and take away that which gives other, freer minds pleasure but causes them an icky feeling.
4 regina lynn // Jun 13, 2007 at 9:51 am
*putting fingers in ears*
*closing eyes*
*squinching up face*
LA LA LA LA LALALALALALALA
5 dandellion // Jun 13, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Well, it is not a problem to get to tickling content in second life. After all, it is internet, and one have to be very talented not to find porn there if just try. E.G. have to check that “mature” box.
6 Grey // Jun 13, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I’d be surprised if many even knew about places like Red Light Center or Jewel Of Indra. Second Life has been all over the media for the past year, while you pretty much have to go looking for the others.
From what I’ve read (and please correct me if I’m wrong here) while RLC and JoI are great community sites with a focus on sex, SL is that and so much more. From the creative end where you can build, design, program whatever new thing you want or need (or buy it from someone who already has) to the RP communities for nearly any topic you want. Sure, there’s a whole lot of sex in SL, but there’s also a whole lot of non-sexual content, too.
And most importantly, SL is free. The only thing you need a paid account for is if you want to own land, otherwise you can just log in and have whatever type of fun you want