Attack Of The Praying Mantis

Posted in behind the IM's | Thursday, 07 February 2008 | Comments (14)

I am not in the mood to tell you another "boy meets a girl in second life" story. You know how it goes. Skip the dancing and the intellectual foreplay, sooner or later, they will look for a bit of fun in the poseballs. One teleport and a couple of minutes later two of them are running through animations, exchanging sweet words and naughty thoughts…

Romance

You know that most of the men have that latent fear, something that has a name related to praying mantis, the naughty insect whose female cut off male's head after mating. And she eat him then. For some unknown link between humans and mantises there is that fear about her going very evil in the moment when he is weak and not ready to fight and defend himself. It happens in the world of insects. It frightens humans. Well, it can happen in metaverse, too. Actually, it can be much worse than you think. Read more…

Is Playing Opposite Sex Really A Sin?

Posted in behind the IM's | Friday, 28 September 2007 | Comments (14)

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

Only Women Allowed

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Giving Your Gender Out

Posted in second self | Monday, 25 June 2007 | Comments (7)

In today's blog post Letizia made a little surprise to all of us. She even posted the photo of her and her human. Physically, they are not alike. They are both wearing glasses, but he is taller and has longer dark hair. And yes, he is… well, he.

So what’s up with this? Am I a compulsive liar? Am I a gender bender, or gay, or a perv? I don’t think so.

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Does RL Gender Matters at All?

Posted in behind the IM's | Saturday, 17 March 2007 | Comments (5)

It is Eureka Dejavu interviewing Jessica:

Eureka Dejavu: are you a man or woman in RL?

Jessica: how about you tell me?

Eureka Dejavu: I am trying to decide. you are certainly not gender-neutral but possess both in spades…sometimes I am positive that you’re a man, and other times equally positive you’re a woman

Jessica: lots weird gender things happen in here after awhile…like — the gender of the person on the other end doesn’t matter so much

Doesn’t matter? Really? Read more…






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