Posted by mikezillion at June 3rd, 2007
Exhibitionism is becoming part of normal expressive sexuality, but it’s starting to affect our children in negative ways. Given the trend, it may be that exhibitionists with alternative body types, such as the popular Suicide Girls site, could help pave the way to a more accepting and healthy body image for all of us.
Posted by mikezillion at June 1st, 2007
The Second Life community is reeling from a blog post warning that the service will not tolerate certain taboo activities on its site. Among these is role-playing of sexual interaction involving minors, even when both role-players are actually consenting adults.
This is getting into a sticky area, and I don’t envy the folks at Linden Labs, who run Second Life, their responsibility. I’ve visited Second Life a few times (and no, I’m not going to tell you my alias there) and as far as I can tell it’s equally easy for a minor or for an adult to log in and play around as either a virtual minor or a virtual adult. This being the case, I don’t see that they have any choice but to impose reasonable limitations on the activities of their members.
Make a site that’s limited to adult members, and make sure that all the members are adults, and then we can open this discussion again. Of course, I might still side with the folks who want to impose similar limits on what’s acceptable in virtually public adult-only spaces, but at least then the discussion would be worth having.