RP Kids in SL

OK, at the risk of starting a flamefest and haven for every smart ass on the forums. Or starting yet another stupid 'Pedos in SL' trollbait...

I'm really curious about why some people roleplay children in SL. What their motivations are. How they got started. What they feel like they get out of it. I'm not so curious about the "parents" perspective, but anything they want to chime on would be welcome too.

Good question!

I used to use a child avatar, but I've never roleplayed being a child. It started off as just another avatar that I'd made, but the avatar was so much fun that I carried on creating silly costumes for it. It was obvious to me that people liked the avatar. Although recently, with all the age play threads that had popped up. I think it caused people to question child avatars. It became clear that some people in SL are using a child avatar for sexually related reasons.

Still, I can't complain about people questioning my choice of avatar, because I'm just as bad for doing it. I can't help but question why guys use female avatars. I just couldn't find that fun, and it has always puzzled me why they use them. It also pisses me off when they tell me that they're a guy in 1st life after I've just spent an hour trying to give them my babies. GrrRRrrr

Damn you, Surreal Farber! We have blissfully gone 42 days without a single ZOMG AGE PLAY thread, and now you will attract them like locusts. I hope you are happy.

I have a baby av, for the sole reason that it was too adorable and well made to pass up. I don't roleplay a baby, though. Ick. Babies are leaky and they smell funny.

I think sometimes it just happens. Like you have a couple friends they get partnered up have a second life wedding. Well next step one of them goes looking for prim babies. Well then they want to find someone to play that child. So they ask a couple friends.

So a couple of my friends got avie married they asked if I would be a flower girl so I thru on the little shape and hair along with another friend of mine and we acted very mischevious. That was kind of fun. I had a little sister and we played the part in a very funny manner.

Well then my two friends have asked me if I would be thier child. I have told them I don't know how well I will do at being a child but I didn't want to turn my friends down so I said yes. I think they know pretty much Im not going to wear the child avie often. I think it would weird me out a little. I know calling one of my best friend in game mommy would would weird me out so really I do believe I can call her mom, but I know I'll probably be calling her by her own name more often than not. And calling my other friend dad or daddy would be a little weird too so maybe I can call him pops.

But all in all its just part of the roleplay game. I was flattered really they asked me means they thought alot of me. And its not going to take to much time really. I have a little avie and even a bike. They decorated a nursery and have some little swings and stuff. But all in all I'll be back in my regular form asap. Because its not in me to be a kid long.

I don't think I can give you any personal reasons for it, since it's not on my radar as something I'd like to do. But one day I had just TP'd into the Dark Desires area to shop for some clothing, and I encountered 3 females (I'm assuming) dressed as little girls with pigtails with identical pink frilly outfits and teddy bears on their backs.

Judging by their chat, I took them to be young (but possibly over 1 friends who simply were having fun pretending to be little girls. ~shrug~

To each his/her own. I thought the outfits were cute, even if the chat dialog was mindless and bubblegum-sweet.

On another occasion I was with 2 friends, sitting in a mature sim just talking. Of course, some of the conversation was of an adult nature but when an age-player toddled up dressed as a little boy and started acting annoying (like a 7 year old would) asking us if we'd seen his ball, it very quickly killed the conversation. We gently encouraged him to toddle off, but that was the end of our conversational fun for the night. People dressed up as kids kind of creep me out, but that's just me.

I have a friend who frequently uses child shapes -- I'm honestly not sure why, and we've never really talked about it in-depth as such. Maybe I'll ask her.

I change my avatar like I change my clothes these days. I'm probably going to open myself up to flaming by saying that I have an adult male, child male, adult female and child female avatars (and various ponies, <3 Wynx) that I switch around between. Ultimately the motivation is: because it's fun! It's fun to go shopping for outfits and accessories or make adorable animations for them. In Second Life we can make ourselves into whatever we want, so why shouldn't we? When I'm a girl I don't try to pass myself off as one, my profile clearly says I'm not, although I've found most people don't read profiles. There's nothing sexual about it, it's just fun to be crazy cute. It's also way more fun to shop for girls in general and doll them up, especially in SL, since like 95% of the retail market is female-oriented. Seriously, have you tried shopping for prim hair for guys? There's like, two styles that everyone uses. The girl avies are just cuter anyway, the mesh on the guy avatars sucks. Okay, enough rambling. In conclusion: It's fun!

I had a kid avvie a long time ago in the thought of creating a Narnia-themed RP area... cuz I like fantasy stuff and Pern is too restrictive.

And not no rehashed modernized Narnia at all.

Narnia rocks. That is all. Hey, doesn't ExtroVirtual have a beaver tiny?

There is another aspect to this... um, I was shopping for skins the other day when I noticed a little girl avie, complete with pigtails and ruffled dress, running around. Her title was "Daddy's Little Girl". Then I noticed someone standing to the side, in a Wolf av, and a three piece suit, whose name was... "Daddy".

But I'm sure they were just roleplaying an alternate version of Red Riding Hood where Red becomes a valued member of the Wolf family and they go shopping together and stuff... *cough*

well I'll not have a child avatar until somone comes up with an SL version of Lunch Money, then I will get my first child avi, and my first female avi on the same day lol-cause nothing beats a schoolgirl with a chain (except a well played humiliation).

Oh good, didn't take the 'ZOMG AGEPLAY' brigade long. Go away, seriously. Not everyone's mind is as gutterballed as yours.

Your mind must be more 'gutterballed' than mine because I can't see anything 'gutterballish' about what the guy said! I thought it was quite funny!

lol. I've been in SL all of 5 days and already I'm part of a brigade! Yay!

Ok, I'll leave and take my gutterballed brain with me.

For the record, I don't give a shit what anyone does in SL. But I'm not going to pretend to be a fool and refuse to imagine what people are roleplaying here. Daddy's Little Girl? Sure, it could be completely innocent, but I live on planet earth, and true innocence is rare, here.

Maybe you need your eyes checked then.



He was clearly insinuating that they were ZOMG HAVING SEX. While it is understood that some people do pixel slap as a child avie, it's by far not the majority, and not necessary to proclaim in every single thread that mentions child avies.

First, I'm a female.

Second, I have posted in all of 3 threads here, so I'm hardly on some mission or part of some "brigade".

And further, I said "another aspect" of child avies, I did not say "the majority", did I?

This was something I observed, and I would have to be stupid not to imagine something was going on here. Do I think that is what is going on with all child avies? No, and I never said I did. Most of the child av's I've seen weren't named "Daddy's Little Girl" and travelling with "Daddy" the Big Bad Wolf, either.

I didn't realize this was an ongoing flamewar. Sorry if I stirred up shit. But that doesn't mean I didn't see what I saw and it isn't going on, either. If anything that can be imagined can be roleplayed, it will.

I too have been wondering why some people play as child avvies, but ya know, sometimes I think it's just innocently cute.

Example: I was putting in a pool at my rec. center, when a man and woman showed up. They explained that they were looking for a place to teach their daughter how to swim. I invited them to use my beach or the pool for the swimming lessons. Their kid showed up in a suit and arm floaties, waded out into the ocean, and did her thing.

Ever been to a daycare in-world? I've poked around a few, and they're pretty sweet. Cribs, and merry-go-rounds and blocks and diapers and all that. All the kids and adults seem to be having a good, innocent time.

I've also met kids along my travels and interacted with them. A boy scout, a five-year-old, and so forth. I'll give directions and play ball the same as I would with an RL child. I don't mind. Point of fact, it's often charming and adds realism to my SL experience.

Perhaps that's why some people play kids? It adds realism to their personal SL experience?

I think you are being a bit harsh! This thing comes up every few months. I know it's tiring for us that have been here but it still comes as a shock to some new people. Io, type 'age play' into search for a bit of history on the subject *may* have been a better response!

Also, even it it was meant to be gutterballish, there wasn't anything about the "ZOMG AGEPLAY" about it! I agree, it was funny and my mind is gutterballish!

Ageplay doesn't bother me, nor does seeing little kid avi's wandering around. Nothing much phases me in SL, probably because I know full well that it's happening. I even have a child shape, some clothing and a really cute hair. I even like wandering around from time to time in it, just to make people pause... of course, my little girl tends to look creepy, but that's kinda the point.

It's not necessarily you, it's just someone always manages to go 'CHILD AVIES HAVING SEX, DETAILS AT 11' in every single thread that even makes a passing reference to them.

Also, just because she was 'Daddy's Little Girl' doesn't automatically mean 'Daddy' was getting it on. A lot of child avies are roleplayed as part of an immedate or adopted family group in SL. As you said, 'Daddy's Little Girl' could be innocent and cute just as much as it could be perverted, so I wouldn't automatically jump to the perverted conclusion, even understanding that it's a real possibility. Innocent until proven guilty.

And yeah, it's ongoing. Ageplay threads make a regular appearance in the forums, along with furries, goreans and every other subculture. There's always someone who doesn't like what someone else is doing and thinks it's their duty to publically harass them for it.

I know a bit about "age play". No expert, but I'm aware of it. And yes, it could have been completely innocent, but I didn't ask, heh. Although ageplay can also be sexual.

I guess when I saw what I saw, it made me aware of possibilties in SL, because of our ability to create whatever avies we desire, in a way that I had not imagained. So, yes, I was creeped out by the idea of people "pixel slapping" child avies. Is that wrong, lol?

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Once upon a time in a more innocent age of SL, I often wore a child av. It actually started one day when I was being especially whiny and pouting, so I created an av to fit.

Before any of this "age play" talk, I thought of wearing a child av as a way of shrugging off any sense of sexual expression, and simply playing with friends in a more straightforward, innocent manner. There was one birthday party where everyone showed up as a 6-year-old. That was great fun!

Therapy.

I was talking to a person who was in an infant avi. He told me in babytalk that he had witnessed his mother kill his baby brother in real life. When he came to second life he saw it as an opportunity to get beyond the shock of that not just happening, but happening before his eyes. Roleplaying an infant, and in fact, his own brother, was somehow helping him.

I could see how role playing a child or infant could help people work through issues like child molestation, child abuse, etc.