CarlottaAdagio wrote:
I am in second life for 5 years.
About transactional arrangement: If about 80 % of the female avatars wanting to be degraded are men in real life then your assessment is wrong. And whenever you hear about statistics it is stated that a great number of female avatars are male in real life. Play your own **bleep**. It's so easy.
About the real women that want to be degraded in SL it is known that they are having a psychologically problem. So many abused women on SL. You should know that or go on dreaming...
You say: "Some of the choices for stock imagery suck, sure". - Yeah that is my point! LL should do something about it. Everytime I try to exite someone for SL I hear the same: Nah - this is only for kinks. Just pornographic stuff.
Wow, what great advertising for SL!!
...okay, I'll take the bait. If you are playing out an elaborite troll, give yourself 10 points.
Where to start? Maybe some full disclosure? I am a long time creator of adult content. I'm also male. And because someone else was already dragging out the race arguements, I'll point out that I'm white. Hell, I'm also heterosexual, nearing middle age, and American. If you are thinking any of those items disqualify any arguement I make, then I have no interest in changing your mind. If all those things are however fine, I shall give a hearty 'Party on, Fellow Human Being!'
More on topic, how about a source to silly number like 80%? It would be nice to see where such a metric is coming from aside from "Numbers I just made up because they support my arguement." I will accept that more men play female avatars than woman play male avatars. Anything beyond that is a massive leap for any arguement to make.
What is a "**bleep**" and why is it easy? It's okay, my head will not expload if you use a grown up word.
Now for the meat of what irritated me enough to actually post. Because you do not like something, does NOT mean the person engaged in the activity is mentally ill and sick. This should be such a basic concept that I don't even know how to articulate it properly. The best I can come up with is to assert that because someone is not exactly the same as you, they are not somehow lesser or defective. It seems like this point has been made a few times before, but perhaps you are right and I dreamed it?
To hit another point made in another post, SL is significantly safer for people to explore their differences than the outside world. You can mute, ban, derender, and if all else fails close the window. With the number of options availible, I belive it is safe to generalize to the effect that if someone is engaged in an activity, they likely want to be. No one is being actually held by force.
To continue on a different related tangent, by all means help those who ARE in fact abused, those who are in true danger. It is the mark of a fine and admirable human being to put themselves on the line to truely help others. It is somewhat less admirable to confine one's crusade to a perfectly safe enviornment to help people who neither need nor want your help.
Also a point of history: LL did do something about it, in conjunction with the terrible idea to allow children onto the grid. They created adult land. This protects those who do not wish to see a certain kind of content, and even more importaintly protects those who DO wish to see it from those who don't.
Pornographic stuff for kinks? I'd check out SL with that advertising, perhaps they should adopt it as the new slogan! I suspect it will draw more consumers than "SL, the world's largest virtual church quilting bee!"
I'll spare everyone more of this rant, at least for the moment. You're not the first witchhunter to pop up.