Sexual Perversion and Deviance, in Second Life

Replies to my recent post about Virtual Illegalities, and reading this very entertaining item (“Vaginas with teeth and other sexual myths“), got me thinking about what we can learn from Second Life about sexual “perversions” and “deviance”. This post brings together a lot of thoughts I’ve expressed over previous blog entries, specifically as they relate [...]

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Too Adult for Adults

I find myself actually proud of the Second Life community for their outrage at Linden Lab’s latest controversial decision, to remove “adult” content currently found on the mainland. I’ve spent a lengthy amount of time reading the responses of residents on the forums – you’ll find links to them at the bottom of that announcement. [...]

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“Linden Lab Finally Cracks Down on Second Life Porn”

While doing research for a post I’m writing about the merits of porn and Second Life, I came across this story, released a few hours ago, about Linden Labs cracking down on Second Life Porn. Here’s the release from Linden Labs themselves. This should be interesting…
(And I’ll be posting my piece about porn and Second [...]

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No Payment Info On File; Controversy and Difficulties

You may be aware that people can set their islands to only allow access to people with payment info on file. A friend told me about this a while ago and after a bit of thought I decided it was time to give Linden Labs my credit card details so I had payment info on [...]

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Keeping up with Second Life news

Most Second Life residents don’t know what’s going on at Linden Labs – the changing personalities, policies and major decisions – and most simply don’t care either. They live their daily Second lives the same way most people live their real lives – equally ambivalent and uncaring about the politics that run their world, and [...]

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Open Space Sims Madness

Watching the Open Space Sims drama is like watching a whirlwind and trying hard not to get sucked in to it. I get the issue – severe price hikes based on poor grounds and reasoning. And there is no doubt that’s bad practice. Ok, got it. But it’s what’s happened in response to it that [...]

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Why they took my mentor job away :/

Many months ago I became an SL Mentor, a title which allowed me to help new-comers to SL adjust to the world, and help more established SL members enrich their experiences. To get this title I filled out an application stating why I would make a good mentor, which was accepted in time, and then [...]

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