Time to spin up the decks and start a little wiggle. A nice cosy intimate club, and a temptress like me? No contest.
This set is now available in the members section of my website. You can join now, and get access to this and all the archived galleries for $15.
I love that phrase, and it’s offically going into my CV (if I ever need a CV in SL that is). It’s from the Mildly Diverting blog, which I found after reading about an anatomically correct, skinned, body skin in SL on Boing Boing. Kim’s blog post on SL has a lot of nice thinking about it, some of it leaving me nodding my head making appreciative noises. Such as this paragraph…
There is an argument to be made about the popularity of cybersex in Second Life being a reflection of the desire to be physically embodied in the world. By sitting at your computer screen and engaging your virtual self in mutually improvised pornography, you produce real physical effect in your body. (Look, I’m so not going in to detail here. You’re grown ups. Use your imagination.) It’s more or less the only way to get real physical sensation from a virtual existence.
I often here the question “how does this all work then” when people arrive at the club – and in all honestly these appear to be people new to the game who have done a ctrl-f search for sex. Long term SL residents get how all things work on the Grid, from base jumping and scuba diving to total submission societies and the missionary position. Which is good – if I have another 30 minute session where 15 minutes is spent explaining what a pose ball is, I’ll scream.
It might look big and clever, but waving around a pierced penis attachment in the foyer of the club is just not the way to do things in my opinion. Let’s be straight (well, till you pay me) if you land in the club reception area, sporting the latest it nude clothing, while brandishing a cricket bat sized attachment built out of three spherical prims and a tube, you’re not going on my Christmas card list. Talk fast about why you’re clothed but can’t detach aforesaid, I might punch up your profile to check if you’re a newbie… in which case being super polite might make it up.
Which is what a punter over the weekend ended up doing. Jumping in waving around a packet that would never get past the TSA, acting as if it wasn’t there. Which, to his newbie eyes, it wasn’t. Ah well, I sighed, time to bring out the teacher’s cane and beat some sense and manners into him.
Of course he and his Linden were dragged upstairs after the lesson. Prince Albert’s tend to short circuit my decision process.
All dressed up and nowhere to go, no-one to appreciate the cocoon of silk as I emerge. Unless of course, someone is watching from the wings. Altogether now, here comes the bride…
This set is now available in the members section of my website. You can join now, and get access to this and all the archived galleries for $15.
While it’s great to see all the Second Life coverage online and in printed media, I still laugh at the way that one of the biggest industries in SL (which includes the oldest profession in the world), manages to get completely swept under the carpet in the press. While I’msure the Hyper-Flute, Swimming animation, and the Castle in the Sky are all very nice, can you really explore the Must-Have items in SL without mentioning the SexGen furntiure?
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
I love that quote (from Ms West, as the title suggests), and isn’t it strangely appropriate considering the huge number of people who have the XCite system? I still think that there’s something creepy about the whole thing. Simply clicking away at parts of your body (and lets be honest, you’re hitting the highlighted red spots thanks to ctrl-alt-t to try and find the sensitive hot spots) and hearing the body parts react is just, well, creepy (yeah I know, like my whole line of work isn’t creepy, natch). I did read somewhere that the popularity of XCite is because the male simply wants to keep hitting and hitting till they finish, while the female wants an emotional experience, to feel engaged, and appreciated.
Before you ask, yes I have the full set of XCite – partly because on my second trick I was taken shopping to the main store afterwards and was tipped the parts, but also because being in the service industry, if someone wants something, I like to be able to provide it.
The question is, of course, are we just replicating the RL mistakes and us girls will have to wait until for a SexuaL revolution or a blogger to publish a Kinsey style report? I don’t think so, because while the newbies pounce on XCite, get equipped and then ask me to lie down so they can click away till I squirt (and trust me boys and girls, I can squirt), it’s ever so rewarding when I get asked for ‘no green text’ and get to actually put some skill into an encounter.
Maybe this is why most of the SL population turns to people like me?
He TP’ed into the club as most people do, but unusually he started to browse the wall and (it transpires) reading their profile note cards. I found this out afterwards, because my usual icebreaker was met with a rather non committal ‘Hi I’m just looking.’ Fair enough. A few minutes later, I get the IM he’s probably spent the time building up courage to type.
“Can I ask if you would do something special? It’s a bit weird.”
And my little heart skips a beat at this point. Firstly because it would be super unusual if it is something that I’ve never heard before, and second because by asking a question like that, he’s already hooked and ready to play.
“I want you to be my big sister and seduce me.”
Excellent – part of me was worried that a second request for a rampaging Pink Elephant trampling over a tent in the African Savannah while we were bound together by rope in a pit of scarab beetles was about to rear it’s head (before you I asked I charged extra for that one). Now I could run off now with him to a room, but that’s not my style. Need to work out which room, any other special requests (‘call me “little one” at some point), and a bit more on the role he wants (‘seduce an innocent me’).
And he was an absolute sweetie, waiting 15 minutes so I could nip to the shops and pick up the sluttiest schoolgirl outfit I could find so I could throw it on the floor after a minute.
Of course, there are times when a newbie is just getting on your nerves. And not just my nerves, but myself and three other girls at the club. It’s no secret that one of the first things I do when someone walks in is to bring up their profile. I’m going to be looking at when you joined SL, if you’ve taken time to write in your profile, and use that in the same way I would first glance someone in RL (woe betide you if you’re still in the newbie shoes!). Anyway this newbie was determined that if he talked and talked and talked to us we’d give him a free session.
Now we’re all super polite in the club, and with no bouncer around, we couldn’t really take heavy action. So I decided to play… with him. “You need to find Gilgamesh,” I whispered to him. “He knows how to level you up.” Oh you should have seen his newbie eyes light up – finally something that made sense. But who was Gilgamesh, how do you find anyone in this game? And what the hell are you up to, IM the other three girls? And then they twigged and started playing along.
“You can’t tell him that!” “You’ll get into trouble, they’ll kick you out!” “You bitch it took me weeks to work that out and you go and tell him!”
So consternation in the game as poor newbie is convinced I’ve spilled the secrets of the universe to him as the rest of the girls get super angry at me. And in IM we’re all laughing our collective heads off.
He’s not been back since…
Naturally I meet a lot of new players in Second Life (I wonder why they always seek someone like me out…) and I always try to remember what it was like for me as I started out this new life. The problem is that Second Life is more than ‘just a game,’ even though that’s the easy way to describe it. It’s like being dropped into another continent, with its own cultures, expressions and slang. Keep that in mind, ask polite questions, and act as if you really are there, and not in some hack n slash World of Warcraft environment, and most people will be happy to help.
If I could give two pieces of advice? Make sure you visit the New Citizens Plaza, and use the Find (ctrl-f) feature. Between those two things, you’ll be bouncing around the world in no time.
Lots of interesting questions came to mind as I started to set up this site, and one of them was what to do about the ‘Must Protect The Children on the Internet’ provision of USC 2557. It states that the people behind a website (that would be me) need to have a model release of everyone who is featured on the site to show they are over 18. Okay, so am I model here? Well, I think I am. But then am I modelling? Is it just manipulation of triangles as a graphics package? Good questions. What would happen if I was in SL as a 14 year old (by pulling a Big/Tom Hanks on my 35 year old body)? Would I be an underage model then? How about a 900 year old sorceress in the body of a 14 year old in Second Life? I have no idea.
What I do know is that I’m not underage in the game, or in real life, and I give myself clearance to publish my work on the site. And of course, I’m nowhere near the USA…. But having that statement at the bottom of the page does lend an air of credibility to the site.
18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement
