Why people think SL is only for sex....

oh god...Call girls do it for money and have no vested emotional interest, the professional ones anyway.

I figured someone as "well traveled" as you seem to think you are would already have grasped that concept. I guess I"ve been giving you too much credit.

And it did happen with the call girl multiple times. Also with the friend I mentioned.

I can send you pictures since you're so interested.

/me rolls eyes and follows Imogen.

Emotional interest in their clients? Not usually.

They do have self-respect though.

Not if they're call girls.

I remember when i had first landed on the mainland, or whereever you land once you are TPd off help island, The place that was in front of me was a double story building, so naturally i walked up, it looked like some sort of 'pub' it wasnt casino-ey or clubey,

anyway, plastered all over the walls was porn pictures, and three sets of avatars having pixel sex on the floor...

Im glad i carried on using SL and having a look around, because now i have found some great places and great people, but i must admit i was a little taken aback, by the first place that SL teleported me to was this place...

no wonder people think SL is all about sex when they land somewhere like this fresh off OI

Heh, yeah, it's probably like showing up to LA or NY from another country without having any specific knowledge of those cities. You can be in for a long ride if you go to the wrong part of town!

I really think a better-working, more advanced search function would help that situation. Like one where you search for specific words and can omit other ones.

Like I said before it's pretty funky when you get listings for all types of BDSM and stuff when you looked up "helicopter" or "boots"!

Alright, the part I don't understand is why some of these people are so into their pixel sex they are paranoid that LL will go after it next, and worse say SL will be ruined for them if they do. Some one said it's part of playing house, well alright that is all fine and well, but for some one to say SL will not be fun if they were not allowed? Isn't that taking the whole pixel sex thing a little to far and blinding ones self to other non-sexual forms of social interaction?

Personally, Cybering is not my thing, I am rarely into nude Av's either (Personally a woman or Av in a tasteful and elegant dress is a bigger turn on for me.), but that does not mean I would say it's wrong. As long as it's kept private within the privacy of there own dwelling, I really personally don't care if that dwelling is on PG land or not as long as I can't see it while I casually stroll or fly by. But I do disagree full heartedly with the very notion that people use SL only to engage in virtual sex, and that if LL did outlaw it that it would be enough for people to leave. If people are in such a dependency on SL pixel sex they must be really desperate or dissatisfied in their RLs.

I'm going to jump in with a single thought and then just back away from this "No one's going to change anyone's mind" discussion.

When I played TSO years ago, there was no real animation for sex. And it was possible for people, not just me, to have truly intimate exchanges of thoughts and dreams and emotions while sitting in an little hot tub making out. No real nudity, no humping action, just two people, allowing thier minds to connect with each other thru a vastly different medium then they had experienced before. It didn't require prim add-ons or talking genitalia... it required imagination... something I personally demand in a lover.

Somehow I am not surprised someone with the name SqueezeOne Pow might lack the imagination required to enjoy intimacy on a more psychological level and is unable to understand how it could possibly be deemed a sexual encounter if he can't get his dick in it.

I have an account at Red Light Center and enjoy the enviroment because there is a sexual freedom that I find refreshing after having my world and my imagination white-washed here in SL. Pervert that I am, I enjoy a world built entirely around expressing my libido without fear of being AR'd, probably because I'm really comfortable with my sexuality, but yeah, mostly because I am seriously perverted.

To answer the OP...
Answer #1 I have no idea why people think SL is only for sex, since these days it would be like going to Disneyland for some raunchy action.
Answer #2 Sex sells... especially in a white-washed world where people with no interest in pixelized representations of sex always seem to respond to threads about it.
Answer #3 The guy that made this place has been known to run around in a gold lame codpiece.

LL could fix a lot of the search problem by limiting the number of words one can use in an ad. As it is, there are some who put in every imaginable word they can think of for their classifieds to insure that you DO pull up their ad whether or not it has the least thing to do with what they actually are trying to promote. Much like the seamy internet porn sites used to do (or may still) when there was the uproar about some kid trying to pull up the White House for a homework project and ended up in some XXX site.

Ya gotta relax guys, it's SL.

Everyone to their own devices if you want to jump on a ball then do it , if you don't then don't
You want to sit in a tub or snuggle and imagine with your friend then thats great too (my choice).
It's all up to individuals.

Who says? You?

You are the one who cybered her. Do you have any self respect?

You cybered her and laughed about it.

Gee I raised that point and was told by a certain gentleman that the Search Engine is fine, we are just not bright enough to use it properly.

This thread has turned into a dispute.

*locks*