Chinese MMORPG King of the World implemented an interesting way of gender verification (via SLinsider and Pacific Epoch:
Aurora stipulates that only female gamers can play female characters in the game, and it requires gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam.
ROFL
I won't comment the stupidity of a decision which is Monty Python's version of Linden Lab's identity verification. Many interesting questions arises:
what would they do if a male dressed up, put makeup on and acted female(ish) on camera, blaiming "her" masculine features on hormonal dysfunction? would they demand to see what is under the skirt? Xp by TigroSpottystripes Katsu
So basically somewhere in China is an entire server full of pictures of genitals? by Hollywood Ron
Maybe it is available on… let's say… www.nakedroleplayer.com? At least it is an interesting business model and an additional income :)
Seriously, it happened to me once, that a male avatar, with who I played that night, ask me in the morning if my human is a female? I will never forgive myself missing the opportunity to induce him a nice homophobic nightmare, when he so much craves for one. But, excluding that guy who first shoot then ask questions, so many people are obsessed with genders of our humans. I understand if somebody never go over that line of understanding that different people have different approach to their avatars in virtual worlds, but forcing anybody to show in front of the web-cam and prove anything sounds too harsh for my ears.
Though, maybe there is some logic in that move. Nobody succeeded in that statistic, but it seems that, in second life at least, there is significantly more females than males. So, to preserve natural equilibrium, authorities came to this excellent idea of forcing male humans to have male avatars and atomic girls are welcome to help them in the quest of getting enough males in the world. I mean, how to play King of the World in an amazonian society? :)
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