Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Main Forum Thread

OK heres an idea that has been mentioned in various forms numerous times:

Make the new continent completrely PG.
Move the welcome areas there.
Let the buisnesses and Educators use this continent and leave the rest of your customers alone.

I still really don't understand why this 'Adult Continent' is necessary. As I said in a previous thread, I've been in SL almost five years, and in all that time, I have *never* accidentally happened upon extreme sexual or violent content.

...so let me start by openly stating that I am adamantly in favor of the forced relocation of 'adult' themed content...

I happen to be a big fan of solo-exploratory skydiving. One of my favorite things to do is turn on the audio media stream, TP to an infohub, sail to around 4000 meters pull my chute, and drift around on the simulated winds until I land somewhere, then wander around wherever I've landed. I've found a lot of interesting little spots this way that I never would've found by using that crap-heap of a search engine.

A few days ago, I managed to catch a rather rude surprise. Drifting down on the digital breeze, I pull my cord, hit the ground in a nice, soft landing and find myself in a courtyard, with a fountain and a large building off to the left, devoid of any real markings and some innocent looking sim name displayed in the top bar of the viewer...so I wander in, curious. What greets my eyes was enough to make me physically ill. Roughly a dozen hermaphrodites, (I'm assuming...the ones I noted were herm, I didn't crotch-check everyone before leaving) all engaged in some sort of sexual activity, many of which were well beyond what most people I know would consider 'kinky'. If there's blood involved, it's no longer sex, it's perversion and one should seek therapy if they are getting sexual thrills from such behavior. Hate me if you must. I'll spare you the details of the graphic, violently sexual images depicted on the walls, or the hilarious IM conversation where smeone in the crowd had the nerve to call -me- a pervert because I was wearing a 'furry' avatar. (I don't even -own- any genitalia for it.)

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I honestly don't understand this so called private home exception. What if I have an open plot upon which there are no other items save for my sex bed with BDSM, 3 some and every sex position imaginable? How can that not be adult content on any objective basis?

It does seem a bit loopy. The purpose and focus of a sex bed ..is sex. If selling it is an adult activity, and using it in a club or RP area is an adult activity, using it in a home is different how?

"I actually think this is a good idea providing that it only effects those "free sex dungeons" that are everywhere. These places DO attract minors and having access blocked to people who have verified there age or provided payment info on file is a good thing.

However, I think most people are concerned about there own "private' land. I engage in BDSM activities in SL and my house has some BDSM furniture. It is on a mature sim for a reason and the outside looks like a normal house to the passerby. I, and many others are concerened that if they get someone who decides to look in one day, sees "perverse" content then files an abuse report."

This is similar to my own position Baska. I have a private estate with a large building which I call my "Chamber of Horrors" and which is full of stuff that might loosely be described as BDSM. I use my estate for no commercial purpose but anyone tp-ing there could access that building. My own assessment is that the contents of the building are "adult". In fact, I don't see how any reasonable person, approaching the assessment honestly and objectively could conclude otherwise. I feel that I ought to reclassify my estate as adult and this will result in me evicting friends who I allow to live rent free in buildings on other parts of the island and who have no PIOF or age verification. It's all very concerning.

A short and descriptive sentence as the logon/teleport message would be one way. Just please don't hide it with some clever spin like the "more predictable" word game, but make it clear that what could arguably end up as a major policy change about day-to-day behaviour is about to go down.

And what if my land is owned by a group named "Avalon Lagoon" that also owns a nearby parcel containing a store? Does that mean it's a club instead of a private home? What about group land that has group members homes in it?

No. Residents who have more risque toys in their private homes will not have to move. Sorry for raising the red flag of concern.

I actually think this is a good idea providing that it only effects those "free sex dungeons" that are everywhere. These places DO attract minors and having access blocked to people who have verified there age or provided payment info on file is a good thing.

It's my belief if the entire userbase were aware of the impending policy changes, there would be far greater uproar...and LL would be caned!

As it stands now, the part saying "we listened to our customers" could quite easily mean we recieved 500 complaints from our current userbase of 500,000 regarding Adult content in world......which justifies a policy change.....which funnily enough coincides with our CEO's roadmap vision of where SL needs to go.

The Open Space SIM scam at the end of day only effected several hundred SIM owners and a few thousand disgruntled residents living on them.......the "Verification" process effects every single adult person in SL! Every SL adult needs to make that choice!

If my little Portuguese friend Humberto spends most of his SL life having pixel sex in public sex area, he really needs knows that in the not to distance future he might have to drop a "cartão de crédito" (Credit card) to continue his little pixel gratification!

And if those group members decide to get together at your home for some....you know? When does a home become a free sex club?

Wouldn't that depend on what price the new land will be sold at? [assuming there will be land for sale there too] Interesting concept ~supply and demand

Maybe I'm over simplifying things but it seems to me that if its not public access or not listed in search or listed as Residential it's a private residence.
If not, its something else.


Is it really that hard to define?

A good example of the sort of "reasoning" that appears to have LL incapable of knowing which way to turn. Look in to my eyes Urban, I need you to be paying attention. You have a predilection for randomly dropping in on sims to see "interesting" things you might discover. You dropped in on a place (classification unknown) where people were having what I presume they decided was fun, it didn't look like fun to you. Now Urban, who's problem is that?

To be offended by what that person liked would make as much sense as saying they had to do whatever amused you.

Please don't take this as being sarcastic, but why not? What is the property of a private home makes it private and not public, when everything in SL is essentially public?

Maybe I'm over simplifying things but it seems to me that if its not public access or not listed in search or listed as Residential it's a private residence.
If not, its something else.


Is it really that hard to define?

how about this, you take your girlfriend and come over to my SL home and have fun on my sex bed, and my psyke orb explains the concept of SL privacy to you?
or in less words, "coitus interruptus". if you even get that far in ten seconds.