Virtual Pregnancy

9 Aug

When you were a little human they probably told you about storks that bring little babies. Or maybe that they are found in the fields of cabbage. Or maybe you were lucky to hear about the bees and the birds. Whatever they told you, it was not about going to a mall and paying several hundreds of lindens for a scripted tummy, HUD and a prim baby.

While there is so many words said against virtual pregnancy, it is not that bad if you take a second look. What if human is actually pregnant and want to extend that state of the body and mind on the avatar too? Or maybe it's an experiment of a young woman, just to feel how it feels. Girls like to play with babies, that is a normal thing in life since childhood.

And it would be silly to think that second life creators will not respond to the wishes of the residents. From pregnancy tests, via animations and clothes to the furniture for your prim offspring, everything is there. Even scripted things that will make your next nine months (or any other number of weeks you choose) more believable. Actually, there is something called Tantra HUD (not sure that it's the good name) that syncs the cycles of the avatar and the human:

So, the first step in getting pregnant is getting in sync with your natural female fertility cycle. That's where Tantra plays a part. As you know, when we first enter SL we have no fertility cycle but you can change all that just by adding the Tantra HUD to your AV. The HUD gives you many choices: the length of your cycle, its variability, as well as choices between very realistic odds of conception and significantly enhanced odds.

And then, there are all the transgendered guys out there. If his partner is pregnant and two of them are waiting for the baby to come… it sounds perfectly normal, that his avatar, being already transgendered, is having a prim tummy too. It is the closest they can get to the feeling, it might be a good bonding spot and a way to learn more about each other and the pregnancy. It is kind of SL's education potential.

And me? I'll skip it for now.

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7 Responses for "Virtual Pregnancy"

Nimil August 10th, 2008 at 1:01 am 1
i think it can be a wonderful experience for people.. think about those who can’t concieve in real life getting the chance to experience it!

it also adds another neat way to connect couples who are struggling with the long distance thing..

personally i didn’t go though the pregnancy part, i just adopted an 18 year old that we had hanging around us all the time lol
Merlot Z August 10th, 2008 at 1:10 am 2
Interesting…
As someone who has not had conception problems, but who is adopting in real lives, I have always had mixed feelings about the whole “pregnancy HUD” thing. I agree with what you have said here, but the problem I have with most systems is how they spam the rest of the world with ridiculous chatter in much the same way that many of the other scripted body parts do. I don’t want to know how some random person’s nipples are feeling when another AV clicks on them. In the same vein, some of the ways that they pregnancy huds are scripted are offensive, and if there could be a way to make them so only people who *wanted* to know how tired/hungry/happy you are…
well, that would be preferable.
Dale Innis August 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm 3
I understand that there are programs (presumably the high-end ones) where you don’t simply buy the prim baby at the store, but when The Time Comes you go to a birthing center where you sit on a delivery table and a giving-birth animation runs, and the baby…

Well…
Seraphine August 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm 4
i’ll have a baby
when i can pick it
from a cabbage patch
rot koll mit apfel
is what i’ll name her
and she’ll have tiny pigs feet
people will go wild for her
and she’ll smile sweetly
with beer.
Isadora Fiddlesticks August 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pm 5
what a coincidence! we are releasing an article about Pregnancy in SL!

I wouldn’t want to do this in SL, but I respect other people who want to, for their own exploration of SL and what it can do to them. There are many ways in which one could enhance their SL and this is one of them.
paypabak writer August 12th, 2008 at 3:44 pm 6
I just wrote about a birthing center! http://slfix.com/?p=446 I am sure those HUDs could be set to a private channel and shared with friends rather than broadcasting to any and all. I find the reactions to this form of RP fascinating … from “Ewww!” to “Where do we sign up?” I found it intriguing that members of the medical profession have formed groups and seem to use SL for training and education. Considering the other extreme in sexual behavior in SL, it restores my faith that there are those looking at sexual activity from this healthier and more responsible angle.
dandellion August 13th, 2008 at 12:39 am 7
I am sorry I’ve been silent for a couple of days…

Sera, that is a great song. And a great comic as well.

Dale, yes…. those things are developed. Actually, I think one of the systems connects to Xcite. And yes, clinics are there to run all the animations of the happy event and the nurse will come to see the baby.

I am not sure if script’s messages can be set to a private channel, but that would be preferable. Actually, it is quite unrealistic to hear baby speaking from the stomach to anybody than the mother. Not to mention that we are all really sick of green spam.

Nimil, you addopted an 18-y-o?