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Since unclicking mature in search is no way of getting just PG sites, is there any way to get a list of PG Sims

There's no way that I know of. You can try to adjust your search to include words that are likely to give you better hits, but limiting it to PG is going to be just about impossible. Unchecking mature helps, but other than that, I would just look carefully at whatever search turned up and decide whether to go there based on that. The problem is that even if you go to a PG only sim, that restriction isn't enforced very often, so you can see some fairly mature stuff there.

What are you looking for in particular?

Wait for Identity Verification to come around, refuse to verify, and the PG ones will be the only ones you can get to? Because I am pretty sure that it won't be long after that becomes available that every sim with actual Mature content will lock down, just in self-defense.

Seriously, I don't know how you could tell, short of going from sim to sim and checking the Estate settings. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason on the Mainland as to which sims were designated PG and which were designated Mature. They are mixed randomly, because at the time I guess no one expected content access would ever be a serious issue. As far as I am aware, even in the new continents the Lindens still randomly disperse PG and Mature ratings.

In all probability, most of the private islands are rated Mature. At least every one I ever checked was.

hehe - just to add even more confusion, there are some PG-rated venues that are located in Mature-rated sims.

I can think of one, at least....

There are a TON. A lot of people start out thinking that they might want a mature parcel just in case, and end up being completely PG, or know they're PG now but might eventually need a mature parcel. And some just want to show up in both PG and Mature searches.

Yes. That's the way it is.
Perhaps L feels that having separate groups of PG sims separated from groups of M sims by Linden Protected sims in the new continents is 'not a solution'. They would still have to deal with the older continents in which PG and M are a random mix.
Even if they had separated PG and M, they will have the same problem arising again in M sims in which not all of the parcels are flagged as restricted.
After IDV, we'll have side-by-side parcels which are a mix of PG, Immature Mature, and Mature Mature (Mature flagged as 'Restricted').

I think the way it's meant to work is:
PG - you don't even know that there is porn (on the other side of your boundary)
Immature Mature - you can think about it (hard not to when it starts 0.01metres from your boundary) - but not do it
Mature Mature - you can do it

In the Freebie Shop in Help Island there are two posters indicating nudity is absolutely not allowed in PG Sims, so it seems at least at one time there was a desire to separate the mature activity.

I believe there is a lot of value to what SL offers, but I want to promote it to an audience that would feel much better if it was Family Friendly, i.e. "just let me wander around in my part of the world" and I don't have to worry about what goes on elsewhere.

They seem to gp to a lot of effort to keep adults out if Teen SL, unless they have gone through some major check out, and they restrict weapons to specific Sims.

But why have a checkbox for mature content in Search, if mature parcels will show up even without checking that box. You just drive people away that are not interested in the Mature Content

maybe check the teengrid

(sorry couldn´t resist, this pg stuff makes me sick in an adult world)

Not every adult wants to see mature content. Some people are adults, but have children around them.

A very good point.

The problem with mainland is that a PG sim borders a mature sim. I noticed a strip club on what I thought was PG land but realised that no, the strip club was on mature land, it was just concidental that it was the very next parcel to my PG land where I was telling renters that they could not open an adult business.

cartoon public nudity is just so scary.

I would suggest that perhaps you should wait until, at the very least, verification is in (it'll probably be a long wait) and accept the possibility that*even then* people who do not feel comfortable in a world that accepts and acknowledges adult content with a laugh will not feel comfortable wandering the grid in SL.

This is not a family friendly place- as evidenced by the fact that all residents on the main grid are required to acknowledge that they are at least 18 before admission. There are a lot of virtual worlds out there willing to accept teens and people with delicate sensibilities- they tend to be whitewashed and lack the vast diversity of user created content.... but witht hat colorfulness and diversity comes responsibility (for what you see and allow to offend you, not so much for what you create) and acceptance that there are a lot of people out there who don't share the same moral code as you.

I live in a sleazy SL motel, and don't have pixel sex (real sex with my husband is much more entertaining and satisfying, thanks). It's super cheap to rent, however, and the neighbors are endlessly amusing. Part of what I love about SL is how diverse it is, even if I stick to PG activities, the mature side gives the grid a lot of it's flavor. It'd be a shame to miss out on that for a purely family-friendly experience. =)

Look what it did to that person in that thread a few weeks ago.

You're confusing "Adult" and "Explicit" content.

Whilst it is true that we are all 'adults', not all of us choose to involve ourselves in the seedy side of Second Life, engaging in all sorts of sexual quirks and whatnot.

Rather than belittling those that choose to avoid such content ... perhaps you should be grateful instead that Linden Lab allow such activities to continue, because you know as well as I do that they are completely opposite to the overall plan of SL becoming 'the future internet' - and a business platform taken seriously.

After all, would you really want to be doing a presentation to an important client, for it to be disrupted by a stream of flexiprim penises dancing across the screen? Probably not.

Broccoli

They continue to allow the "seedy side" because if they kill it they will lose most of the rest of their customer base.

Yes I agree we do need a PG continent. Is there a count somewhere of the number of PG sims vs. mature sims?

Nudity was given as the example of explicit basically, which is nonsense.

Yes I understand wanting to avoid Porn and seeing Avatar sex. Totally reasonable.

But getting uptight over seeing a nude avatar is silly.


The best, most realistic Avatars are good cartoons.

Most Avatars are average cartoons.

and the noobie Avatars are bad cartoons a couple steps above stick figures.

I do not object to the seedy side being available. I am not wild about a mature SIM being next to a PG one, as Ciaran Laval related. I would much prefer them on another continent that was just a teleport away.

But what I really object to is doing a search with mature content turned off, and getting SUPREME FETISHIST BDSM CLUB If that is not Mature, what is?????

Then you need to file an AR because the club owner didn't check the mature content tab.
Pretty simple