Second Life without sex?

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Pep (Hearsay evidence is not admissible. )

LOL! What an interesting test! I'd never have passed that one in SL . . . and maybe not that often even in RL.

But hey, I'm chatty.

Dana, I certainly agree that the best sex is brain sex, but for me I think there is to much synaesthesia involved for JUST brain sex to take me where RL sex does. Sights, sounds, smells, touch, taste . . . in addition to the imagination and the heart.

Or, maybe I just haven't ever had the right partner?

I'm don't know whether you are saying this because you have a good memory, but this is a big part of it.

Pep, when you are nice and when you are helpful, you make me sorry that I get angry with you. I wish you were like this all the time with *everyone*.

Knowing you is like being on a seesaw.

It's more like digital Tantra, and many won't allow themselves to learn how to "get there" without dragging their heart in tow. I only said what's needed, not that everyone can make that happen for themself.



Surely it may not take you to where RL sex does (doesn't for me either), but in lack of a physical presence it can be pretty close. The woman I learned a lot from could almost literally make you smell, feel, or taste something by her sheer descriptive, poetic genius. No, it can never be a replacement for the RL thing, but it's possible to have it be a beautiful and moving substitute.

I am always the same.

Pep (It is how people read what I say that changes.)

PS And yes, I have a very long and very good memory.

This.

/me laughs

You are so full of it!

No offense, but not everybody wants to go to sub space

The many faces of Pep . . .

(Why do I have the sense that there is a lot of VERY interesting history floating just under the surface here? What a shame I can't take one of you out in SL, get you drunk, and wheedle the whole sordid story out of you . . . )

kk, I can buy this. I certainly do believe in the power of language.

(We need a thread on this: "Try Out Your Best Cybering Line Here!" Think Millie would object? )

How do you pick just one line? (Well maybe the only line I can manage to PG-up???)

Well, I suppose that MAY be the case, in fact. But I am also probably being unfair.

It's complicated . . .

This is a good answer. A lot depends on your own level of immersion and suspension of disbelief. Just like flying, or diving or many other of SL's activities, it doesn't compare to the real thing, but it can still be a worthwhile substitute, or addition to them.

Well, in my experience, there frequently IS just "one line" that does it. Or one move. Or one particular look . . .

I think sex comes and goes in your life. Sometimes its really important to you and at other times its hardly a flutter in your heart and other things take precedence.

SL sex is relatively easy sex - it doesnt need much physical exertion and it doesnt need much mental commitment. It's safe. Clean. Precise. And has no "was it good for you?" attachments the next day. It's also fine if you forget who tupped you. I often do.

I mean its just one more zonky space-cadet name on your friends list teh next morning and maybe a pic of the graspy avs on the floor sweating out a big O.

I'm not saying it doesnt mean something when its a friend with benefits (which I much prefer) but most of the time it's a stranger with lust in his eyes and a girl who just wants some sleep.

Sex isnt just an aphrodisiac, it's also a sleep-aid.

See, this is where you lose me. "Easy sex" does absolutely NOTHING for me. And, of course, the problem is that if there IS the necessary emotional component, then it all becomes rather complicated, doesn't it? It's no longer merely about sex . . . or obtaining a quick and easy soporific.

The entire point of this thread, as I understand, isn't really about the "sex" at all. It's about all the attendant baggage that, for most of us (I would hazard a guess), makes the sex worthwhile in the first place.

Kissing off a one-night stand is relatively easy. Dealing with a relationship in which sex is merely one (important) component is something else entirely.

This might possibly be a guy thing, but I don't require immersion or suspension of disbelief to get off. If I wasn't smacking it to SL I'd be smacking it to porn and if I didn't have porn I'd be making it in my head anyway. This goes on to some extent unless I am co-habitating with a girl who keeps me in a constant state of exhaustion ))))

OK... THAT line... I couldn't possibly PG up

UGH!!

And DOUBLE UGH!!!!

Smify, we need to buy you a thesaurus, or a glossographia erotica, or something . . .

So, Millie would object?

Choking the chicken?

It's kinda a moot point since I could never utter those words to someone I wasn't on top of, physically or virtually ))))

Well, you are a woman.

They do have more buttons.

Oh yes, MUCH MUCH better . . .