You wouldn't believe how Help Islands in Second Life™ look these days. Once again, newspapers made a "breaking" story about a guy who cheated on his RL wife and SL partner with another avatar while the wife was chasing orcs in WoW.
Moral of the story was, as it seems, go to second life and get some sex. So the hundreds of same looking avatars fall from non-existence down on the Grid and make me think what is in their heads?
It's all kind of the people. Usual first sentence is "I'm new in the game, what do I do here?" So many of them have problems finding their arrow keys. Yes, that makes it fairly impossible to walk around. But that doesn't stop them from asking for age/sex/location. Go to the bloody FaceBook to ask about a/s/l!
Sure there are people who are smart enough to ask a question or two about walking and editing appearance then to switch to IM's and politely ask
How do you people make love here?
So I tell them about bees and birds… errrrr…. red and blue poseballs, chats and emoting. That's fine. I am not a hypocrite. But the vast majority have a problem with reality even before they even tasted virtual world.They alreay made themselves a picture of great lovers that we were all waiting for. They are full of confidence and ready to do us like nobody did us ever before. Confidence is nice, but confidence is not enough. Especially when you have no clue what you should do, right? What if one of those girls they're hitting on say yes? What if I say yes? What will they do?
Thing is, they have no idea about virtual sex. As virtual reflects "real" so well (especially with noobs) they have no idea about real sex as well. They don't know how to do it, they don't know what it gives nor what it can't give. They have no single reason why would they do it. But sex drive doesn't ask why. It's deeply engraved in us, if there is some possibility of anything related to sex around, we run for it. At least some of us.
So there is a girl standing with her arms spread, managed to take some of her clothes off and trying to get rid of the pink skirt and dress something better looking. And there are at least three male avatars around her, saying stupidest hit-on lines in the history of both worlds. It doesn't matter that she looks just the same as ten other girls on the island, that her skin is plain color splashed over the body mesh and that she is unresponsive while trying to detach that stupid skirt. It is the piece of black panties that shows and that makes all their blood pumping where their genital attachment should be.
So the chain of causes and effects goes from stupid story in the press to the peak in registrations. But what is next? Most of those noobs leave the Help Island and go to the Mainland. (Trust me, sometimes it takes a bit of effort to lead them to th big screaming-green sign that rotates and says EXIT and to make them click on the sign that says CLICK HERE.) What happens with them next? Do they find those ugliest and stupidest of the smutty places of second life? Do they realize that they should hump the blue ball? Do they find their fun? How many of them learn to do cybersex at least decently? Do they contribute to the economy? Does this flood of people who are looking for meatspace hook-up change the way our world functions?
Is it OK to make some kind of tracking device that we can attach to them and follow their behaviour in the next days, like biologists do? Now that would be interesting thing to do.
I can’t wait for the first "in the wild" documentary about the SL equivalent of David Attenborough following noobs around with a camera disguised as a box of freebies.
I am seriously thinking about the idea :) You can attach to them whatever script you want. Just pack it in the hair :) Like a ring on the pigeon.
“HI I AM [insert country name here]… SEX NAW?” seems to be the first sentence a lot of people says just after being “born” in SL. That makes me wonder if LL should have a team of escorts in the Welcome areas as a way to keep that new residents as customers, names like BigTits Linden or CrazyPussy Linden come to my mind. (Of course last sentence is a joke.)
You know, sex sales (yes, i will but 2 pounds, please) and even there is always a high number of new residents coming to SL exclusively for sex some of them come to stay (we all are here, right?).
Anyway, if you need help in that “in the wild” documentary… count with me… it may be funny.
A tracking device sounds like a very interesting idea, with even scientific interest. Alas as much as I’d like it, it’s most certainly against ToS.
I am always amazed how the whole country can be put in one noob avatar :) And, believe it or not, but yesterday i met Hornypussyforyou… cannot remember the last name, but it wasn’t Linden.
And Peter, I bet that some of the things I said in the public chat yesterday were against the Big 6 if not against ToS.
Lilly Yifu once posted about the time she spent an hour or so in an orgy room.
Even when she said yes, the guy couldn’t figure out how to use the poseballs.
I’m wondering if it would be against TOS to ask some to participate in a study where they would wear a tracking device; if they agree to it, even given their n00b status, I think it might be okay. It would be a worthwhile study, dandellion, and if you had someone involved with the right sort of academic credentials, it might even be publishable.
You could give them a small L stipend to wear it and that would help motivate them. But you’d have to not actually help them figure out virtual sex once they agreed. Hmm…
[...] 16, 2008 by London Spengler Dandelion just wrote a post about how some news that touched SLEX (sex at SL) brought a flood of newcomers, wanting to try it, [...]
I fail to understand why people can’t be free, and have any sort of sex they like in Second Life, with the only restriction being those established by RL law, such as not harming minors in actuality or in simulation.
This is a culture and a class war that dandelion is perpetuating. Some people aren’t as "classy" and are "smutty" in his view. He’s like a blushing and fainting Victorian lady.
If fat people in England weighting what they call " 25 stone" which I’m guessing to be at least 250 lbs US, want to go on SL and have a virtual relationship and virtual sex, *why can’t they*? Why must you phony mediocrities and fake intellectuals point the finger at them? If some newb wants to be an ass and try to hit on girls who are probably boys in the WA, why can’t he? The only problem there is a management one. The WAs should be PG, and the newbs shunted off to the free sex sims for that sort of thing so they don’t bother others. But the activity in and of itself is legitimate, because it is a free expression of will.
What was the alternative? Controlling people’s expression? Oh, I bet we’d hear HUGE amounts of howling if it involved YOUR expression. Your little vicious pals like Arahan Claveau can make art featuring urination on the Koran, and *that* is ok, but let some fat guy in RL get his rocks off with a buxom avatar in SL, and suddenly it’s culturally a wasteland.
You are frauds.
Prokofy, anytime you call me, or people I agree with a fraud, I take that as a compliment, and know that I’m doing the right thing. Thanks! And btw, I spent this weekend on the HIs helping these new residents, and believe me, sterling citizens most of them are not. So if you send me your Home LM Prokofy, I’ll have them TP to your place so you guys can all have a good time together.
I must admit that idea of saying yes to the rude guy came through my head. Somehow, I missed the fun again :)
Alex, that device should not only track their migration, but practices too. That should be xcite compatible thing :)
Skate, don’t do that. Prok will think that Russians are coming while the hippies are already squatting his front porch.
Prokofy, if you tried to read the post instead of rushing into calling me a fraud, you wouldn’t make a fool out of yourself. I never said people can’t be free. As the matter of fact, this blog is full of my rant and ramblings pro freedom. Also, I am more than once declared as anarcho-bolshevik- hippie because my pro-freedom assertions, by nobody but you!
I am not saying that people shouldn’t come to second life to live whatever the phantasy they have, providing that all the involved parties are consensual and that on the other side of that phantasy is not an actual minor. And there is no place on this blog that will ever propagate any control of anybody’s expression. I thought we know each other that much.
This post, to give you a digest, is describing, in bits, what was happening last days on the HI’s. This posts draws a line between people who come to play with us (whatever their game is) and people who come and give themselves right to be rude.
What made me write it were questions about how sex drive can affect human mind, why do people jump into something completely virtual just because its name is related to sex, what would the guy who was so full of himself while hitting on me do if I said "yes, do me now", and the last but not the least, can such a flood impact the shape of our world.
Here was another comment from mr. Neva… that is, another attempt of trolling and attacking me with a pile of his usual bullshit. I had no nerves to read it all…. I stopped somewhere in the middle:
That is exactly what I did. Marked it as spam and went on with enjoying my lives.
*grins* I’ve never found the welcome or help areas much fun anyway. They seem to be full of very annoying people (who are obviously there because so one else wants them) or else people obsessed with sex. I point them to search. I do pop by every now and then to see if I can help anyone genuinely wanting it but it’s like doing penance for some crime I didn’t commit.
I’d love an invite to the screening of the documentary though. Actually, I don’t even think you’d need to be sneaky. I’m quite sure if someone says, "can you sex me up" and you say, "no, but I’d love to follow you about for your first week or so as a day in the life of pervert resident", I’m sure they’d be all for it. Flattered even.
Ahahahahaha….. if you capture machinima with decent fps, I’ll do scauting and editing :)
OH RILI!? lol
fine, researcher babes feel free to find me-test-subject on noob island (need directions?)
It takes 10 min to figure out the huds and balls.
If anyone think that this is the SEX in SL then I think he should ask his partner what she thinks about it.
I’m gonna have all the HUDs, custom animations and sex beds anyway (yes, all of them :) But honestly I think it’s possible to have a strong experience even with some basic acc. But you can’t have the rili good stuff if there’s no passion. My rush comes from her rush and I much rather if she was into me too, otherwise it’s not my cup of tea ty.
They say sex is 95% in the head, but it’s really a 100%. And as far as I’m concerned, the accessories will never be the main attraction. I think the main prop. is her mind, then her Av.
And me being a noob? 33 years on RL, doesn’t it count for something?
Besides, noobs are still fresh and naive (btw I decided to remain naive, I’m blocking all the shit out) and I know there are elders who get their kick from breaking-in noobies. And I assume that if someone is here for a long time, then it might be fun having someone wide-eyed who still thinks it’s all just a bubble of a big wet dream (boom), rather than another sleaze case.
hey whatever, I know I’ll be looking after my own babe, she might be here for years but yes, I am hoping to do her like no one has ever done her before (naive remember :), at least I’m gonna try.
later d. :)
FYI, I’m here to stay huns, and I never saw that story, don’t watch TV that much (more like never).
No, I came here on my own and I’m gonna live here for ages :)