Though there are many comments here, there are multiple ones by the same people. Thus, it's hard to gage how many are actively concerned. My own "random" pole inworld equates to this: "What? Didn't hear about it."
Whatever LL decision is, that's how it goes. We really have no vote in the decisions this (or any) company makes. I get Google Alerts for Second Life daily, and it seems they have bigger fish to fry than a few disgruntled adults who want their own private playground. One only has to look at the success of Farmville and Yoville on Facebook to realize sex isn't all that sells. I used to play both of these "G" rated games, and spend a small fortune on them. More than I ever spent in SL. One can ask anyone, "hey, do you play Farmville?" and whether they play it or not, they KNOW about it. I can't tell you how many "blank" faces stare at me when I tell them about Second Life. Thus, the sex argument just isn't a concern, nor would it be to me, if I was sitting on the business side of this game. That doesn't mean I don't still have all the same concerns as everyone else, I'm just saying, Linden will be quite fine with changing the "rules" of the game to get more people in and aware of Second Life. IF they get them "in and aware."
They can't advertise it as a sex playground, can they? But, they can advertise it as a "family" game.
Again, all the concerns are valid to those who want the freedoms they currently have...but not really a financial issue for this company. It's totally impossible for us to assume our monies matter to them when we don't know what those monies are? Or how they are divided, and by what group of players.
I used to go to dance clubs a lot and while dancing with people, I'd talk to them. What was interesting was a few told me things that were just shocking. One man was "married" in world to a woman who turned out to be a "man" and who stalked him in RL.
A 19 year old told me he was in SL (main grid) for five years. His born date proved it. He told me he'd had many sexual encounters since coming inworld with women in their 50's. Maybe he's a liar and maybe he's not...
Another man I danced with told me last year that "after" a sexual encounter with a woman he'd just met, she rolled off her pose ball and said, "Oh, I'm 15." He told me he vomited after this and was a "wreck" for weeks. This was a clear case of a teenager (maybe), knowingly seducing an adult and then " not divludging her age until after. Was she lying, too? We don't know, do we? Neither did that poor man who was freaked out for weeks. This isn't RL where a man KNOWS in advance he's seeking out a teenager. It's just a sap who is either in the "mood" or "gets int he mood" when given the "chance." This is just not the same as RL and everyone has to at some point agree to this. Short of all men keeping their peckers in their pockets, there is no way in hell that people can protect anyone in a virtual world that has an open source code.
If teens are in SL now, and have or are having sexual encounters, then it seems current status-quo hasn't been able to protect anyone underage thus far, and all this roaring is for nothing.
And the person making threats is annoying me.
Watch the Google alerts on SL and you'll see, as I did, this is a business with an agenda. Maybe they want to end all the sexual content, and one could understand why. Sex is not all that sells if people are investing a fortune in planting corn.