Ruthie Munro

I know this is a little late, but I felt the need to chime in. While I myself have some qualms about this company and their customer service, it seems to have gotten better with the release of their body. TheShops themselves has an alright selection of darker melanin skins. From a latte type colour to a dark chocolate. Pink Acid has a couple selections, (they only have 7 skin selections total for the mesh head), none are actually light enough for me. Deetalez has 5 selections, from an alabaster light to a deep tan. The Skinnery has 8 tones, from a peachy pale to an "onyx", again, not pale enough for me personally, but their skins have incredible detail and life to them. While their own set prices are a little on the high side, it's not hard if you look around to find what you're looking for, being it extremely pale or richly dark. The majority of generic skin companies seem to hover in that latin and aribic red hued tanned area of skins.

In all video games where it's allowed, I play my RL gender (female), but most men I know play the opposite of their RL genders. In SL that's a little different, but if a gendered male wants to play an SL female or SL TS to explore things in their own lives they can't live out normally (for what ever reason), so be it. I know several trans gendered, and gender queer people in RL that this doesn't phase me. If you think about it, in real life there are six "genders" total. Male, Female, Trans-male, Trans-female, hermaphrodite (both genders) and then the gender absent. In some religions they break it down into 8 (male living as female, not identified female, and female living as male, not identified male), those are usually shamans or holy people. SL gives people the possibility of who they dream to be. Some of us are happy on all levels and reproduce ourselves in game, other's feel the need to tweak, for personal or curiosities sake.