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    So let's play fair

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    1 hour ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

    You're right. And I apologize.  It was someone else from sl kid community complaining about not being able to be naked on a beach.  

    Why do you think everyone who uses a child avatar is part of the same "community"? What does "community" mean to you? Just using the same mesh body? Because I'm not answering for the misdeeds of some other Maitreya user I've never even met. 

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    So let's play fair

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    1 minute ago, Kathlen Onyx said:

    Then I must be shopping when all the nakie avatars are sleeping because not ONE time have I seen a naked avatar while shopping in the six years I've been here.

    However, you and @brodiac90seem to see quite a few. This confuses me. 

    Would you like LL to specify what outfits are not near nude? Maybe they should just dictate what each avatar should wear. THAT will go over well. They gave guidelines. Because @brodiac90sees a avatar as provocatively sexual in a skimpy bathing suit does not mean it's against any rule.

    I sometimes see the "not rezzed nakie" phenomenon, but it's not sexy at all, because they are usually also a cyclops if it's that laggy.

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    So let's play fair

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    2 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

     

    For example:  I think that I've seen a few complaints about seeing naked avatars specifically "while shopping"; however, many users may think it just fine to undress before changing to new outfits while shopping.  If on "M" land and nobody says "don't do that" (get naked while shopping), and you see occasional avatars doing it, then..doesn't it become "expected" (normalized)?  

     

    Also, if it's laggy, they might not really be naked. They've just rezzed before their clothes. They may see them just fine even though you (general you) don't. 

    i'm a fan of the "put the demo on over my regular clothes, then take off the regular clothes" thing, which I guess is the SL equivalent of that thing where we contort out of our bras while keeping our shirts on, but who knows what other people see?

    I was in a community with a strict dress code for a while, and one thing you learned quick was to wait a minute before messaging people about their wardrobe malfunction lol, because it might not really be one.

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    Will The New TOS on Child Avatars Ensnare Short Adults?

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    3 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Ok if that is how you imagine it, it must be so.

    Then please enlighten me about what pedos really do in SL, where almost all the players are adults and there aren't a lot of actual kids to groom.

    If you read the article that started the whole scandal, there were people who'd play kids and wear adult attachments to signal that they were looking for AP. Those weren't real kids, and they weren't innocent nonsexual RPers either. They were adults looking for AP, either with other APing kid avatars (ETA: who were also really adults) or with adult avatars. That's what LL is trying to crack down on now.

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    Will The New TOS on Child Avatars Ensnare Short Adults?

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    1 minute ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    I don't think pedos play with each other or there wouldn't be such a huff about them. The prob is that they seem to enjoy grooming new victims prior to their conquest. It is their foreplay it seems like.

    That's how it works in RL. But in SL, where it's all really adults behind the pixels, I imagine some of them like to play the adult, some like to play the kid, maybe they switch off. They're not going to have much luck "converting" a nonsexual kid avatar. Because that nonsexual kid avatar isn't an actual kid, with all the naivete that goes with it, but another grown adult who is playing a kid avatar for their own reasons, which don't include AP.

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    Content creators for Child bodies.

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    10 hours ago, Arwyn Quandry said:

    Another grey area: I'm finding some inappropriate items made for children's bodies but listed under Women's Clothing. They're created for a body which is explicitly a child body, yet listed as adult clothing using an avatar which could pass as a tween or teen. Reportable or not?

    Are they for bodies that can only make child avatars, or ones that can do both?

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    Discuss or Comments about Child, Adult, Can't Tell Thread

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    4 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

    Actually I think that that age range could be a problem. Look at Epstein as an example. All the young women in that case would be seen as edge cases here in SL. It would be hard to tell if they are of high school age or over 18. That's still an issue. So honestly, my opinion is age up as much as possible just to be on the safe side or don't go near adult land. My two cents.

    I will say, though, that Epstein had actual real minors there whose real ages could be discovered. The problem wasn't so much that people looked young in his orbit, it's that they actually were.

    I think it's going to be less of a PR problem for SL if someone (for example) snaps a picture in an adult club and some people look ambiguously late teens-ish. Because if anyone were to dig into the real people behind the avatars, they're probably legal and well beyond. And their appearance alone is not enough to be shocking. Lots of legal adults look young.

    What they don't want (IMO) is images of naked prepubescents up to no good, because there's no ambiguity and it shocks people even if the real people piloting the avatars are 60.

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    Content creators for Child bodies.

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    2 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

    Anything made for child/teen specific bodies such as Tweenster and to some extent, Rebirth Eve, should only BE general content.  That strippable bikini for Rebirth really bothers me when I know that can fit a child as well as an adult.  It says the bra can't be stripped on the flat but nothing about the bottom.  😕

    Well, they do that because it's one single item. The way the bodies are made, the same undies (or pants, or skirts) fit all of the Rebirth variations. So there won't be a separate one for the flat (usually child) size. It's kind of like Maitreya and Maitreya Petite fitting the same bottoms.

    But I would hope they have a non-strippable version in there anyway. Like if you get an outfit from Vanilla Bae (who doesn't make anything for children), it comes with a PG version too that's not scripted to strip.

     

    Edited to add: I think I found the item, and yeah, there doesn't appear to be a no-strip option for the bottoms, which isn't good. (I did find one other strippable bikini that includes Rebirth, but it does not have Flat at all, and there's also a no strip version for sale.)

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    Content creators for Child bodies.

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    Rebirth certainly is. (I sell a ballet outfit for Rebirth; while the outfit is not risque, I've changed the ad pic of it to grownup!Rebirth for the time being--I think the modesty bra will show when they roll out, so I don't want to have an ad pic that doesn't show one where one should be, if that makes sense.)

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    Will The New TOS on Child Avatars Ensnare Short Adults?

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    So height is the one measurement I've never changed since my starter avi, except for RP characters who were supposed to not look like me. When making my shapes for various bodies, I've kept that number the same. I checked once and apparently I'm about 6 feet tall, which would be unusually tall for a woman in RL though not unheard of; in SL it feels like a good proxy for my real height of 5'6". When I'm out and about, I'm taller than some women, and shorter than most men, which "feels" correct because that's how it is in RL at 5'6". 

    Interestingly, it translates a little differently depending on mesh body--my Legacy is taller than my Maitreya without my changing anything.

    Something to consider about Second Life beyond people playing around with some garbage behavior.

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    1 hour ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

    Oh shoot, I forgot about height deformers...need...

    Yeah no, I'm not at all concerned with my own height in terms of adult content or anything. It's just a stylistic choice for certain avatars I run.

    It's just that out in the wild, I see mostly shorter women and some of the guys are up there, but it doesn't seem overly noticeable. 

    The ONLY person I've seen that I'd classify as a "giant" is a woman who showed up to last year's Fantasy Faire wearing one of those humongous giant avatars. Like, we'd be as tall as her ankle kind of humongous. Seriously cool avatar, but damn, lol.

    She's a regular there and she's cool! One day I will need to ask her how she finds such fabulous clothes for that avi. 

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