Children

Buncha' prudes, I tell ya'! Don't make me put on my primsuit! (=_=)

Wow, this subject has the longest shelf-life of any subject I have ever seen.

We used partially hydrogenated vegetable oil product in the preparation process. (^_^)y

I agree - I only bit cos the OP was about nudist places otherwise this dead horse has been well and truly flogged.

Incidentally I just met June the OP very nice lady

As a child avatar who is pretty well known in the community, many kids have approached me with this question and my response is pretty much the same.

Don't do anything that wouldn't be appropriate for an RL kid to be doing. A kid scampering around with his bum bum hanging out on a sim specifically designed for this activity is fine as it would be on a nude beach in RL. Keep it all in perspective and try to be considerate of others roleplay along the way! Nothing worse than building a sandcastle on the beach and being approached with the now infamous line "so are you REALLY a kid?"

Nudity itself isn't a sexual thing but our society sure has done a good job on making it appear to

Don't sweat it. CX has a Cartel pool party almost every Sunday; I go there lots.

I've heard from a knowledgable source that Sky News is a bunch of Boogerheads.

By the way, this paranoia is spreading more in RL, as well. As a photographer (hobby, not by trade) I ran across a news article refernce in a photography forum of a father in the UK who was asked to stop photograhing his own children having fun on an inflatable slide in a park by both the slide operator and one of the other parents, even after he assured them that he was only photographing his own children. The family left after being accused of pedophilia intent. Sad.

The rules are right here:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/13/clarification-of-policy-disallowing-ageplay/

And they are not necessarily easy to find or to understand, which is probably why the child avatar threads are so pervasive.

But what you described does not violate these rules.

Now did't I say I wanted less of these threads f'r my birthday?

June, this may be of use to you:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Marianne_McCann/Child_Avatars

Mari

Truthfully, based upon all of the RL nudist areas I have been to, it is usually the Americans that are more likely to associate nudity and sex because as a nation we are very prudish.

In RL I have been to nudist areas where there are children and I have been to some that are adult only. And as many have said, nudity does not imply or mean sex.

i just wanted to respond to this pretty quick..

Just like nudity doesn't equal sex (even two adults nude together doesn't equal sex, or sexual feelings or something erotic) - spanking doesn't either...

That is to say, Spanking doesn't necessarily equate to sex.

i mean.. in RL parents spank their children (not saying if this is morally right or wrong) but that doesn't mean the parent is engaging in sexual activity with their child.

In SL i can see how some child avatars might include spanking in the same platonic way.

Heck, i know adults in RL D/s relationships which include spanking, but do not include \any\ sex. 'Cause discipline and sex or submission and sex don't necessarily always go together.

That's all.

^_^ well said

Which is precisely why I decided to leave it alone. I just don't know the circumstances, and honestly, don't want to know. It's her business, not mine.

I keep seeing mention of Sky News and a story they did about a year ago on SL. What's Sky News and how do I find the story online? Anyone know?

BTW, they are not children, they are adults role-playing as children.

If someone plays an ava of either gender, they usually want to be identified as that gender. If someone seriously plays a furry, they want to be identified as that animal.

To me, it stands to reason that if someone plays a child ava, they want to be recognised as a kid. Even though we "know" they are adults, I would talk to them and treat them as children. It doesn't matter what they are on the other side of the monitor as far as identification goes.

edit: forgive my misnomer-mongering, I looked at the pic, not the name. Srry

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20082851290719

i googled and that's what i found. i dunno if that's what everyone's referring to. there's associated videos at the bottom... i couldn't get them to play on the SkyNews site.. but here's an off-site link to the longer of the two videos

http://ettf.net/archives/9108

There are others: I may have the URLs at home (I'm gettin onna train in SF)

I totally agree with that stance in world and to a certain extent when addressing child Avs in the Forum. However, I think when discussing the possibility of identifying "children" to pedophiles in a forum, speaking in the third person, it is important to remember that these are adults. They are not children in need of protection. Not only are they probably perfectly capable of AR'ing any untoward advances, most of the kid Av's I know are perfectly familiar with mute, ban, eject. Continuing to refer to these "children" in the third person, IMO only feeds the hysteria surrounding this issue.

I dont think you can compare RL nudist beaches and SL ones - I have been to RL ones where there are kids and everything is perfectly normal. My post was specifically about SL in this case.

Oh, yes, agreed. Inworld and elsewhere are two different things. Inworld, they are children. In the forum, they are adults. This isn't SL, here. I was thinking strictly inworld.

here is what i think of this:

http://kdc.ethernia.net/?p=238

Child avatars going to nude beaches of this type are mainly doing so to grief or at the very least to bring awkward discomfort to the people there. I recall the place is staffed and they will promptly remove the children when reported.

I disagree. I honestly wanna get nakie and play lawn darts. (^_^)y

I got nothing against child avs (used to be one) but it does come with needing a certain awareness of how things might appear to others. Being on a naked beach is probably one of those things.