Also, it’s not acting like a kid in child-involving virtual porn, it’s about remembering (and sometimes reenacting) the times of childhood. Y’know, the times you had with friends at the playground? The meet-ups to play old video games or watch TV? Et cetera?

According to the organizer of the Caledon build, Vivito Volare–as noted in Miss Cornelia’s LJ, has fought for and gained approval to use the image of herself and Des. So yay for one thing going right.

(Though to be fair to the situation, I do believe it was a case of Mr. Volare pointing out Miss Rothschild was not a child av, rather than the Lindens starting to think for once.)

Now the question is still, what can we do? Except for voting on the JIRA issue and teamG office hours… (wednesday, anybody?) *blah*

I would love to see the painting though!

http://razorblade-cookies.blogspot.com/2008/06/hes-cold-hearted-snake-look-into-his.html

going into the latest surreality, that an image of Desmond Shang (governor of Caledon) and Miss Cornelia Rothschild (construct, songbird, clockwork princess, and *NOT* a child avatar!) standing together was denied for press release.

Why? One can only assume it’s because Miss Rothschild is short–her profile adamantly states she is not a child avatar.

Not that such denial would be valid if she *was*, but it’s doubly infuriating that she is *not*.

Of course, we know a lot of people who are just as sick as these, like the leader of the FIA. (Look up Max Mosley in google if you want an appropriate example of a ‘noble’ UK leader who’s just as sick as everyone else in BDSM.)

Being a child avi on long terms is sick too, also it might invoke certain situations where the fact you are dealing with a “kid representation” places you into a discomforting or hard to solve situation or just simply hinders you or reduces your spectrum of executable acts. (Or make other people think you have childphobia. (Not philia.))

I don’t really care about any of these since I know there’s a perv or a not entirely developed soul, someone with a broken or an uncertain self-image behind these representations, but I refuse to be misjudged when I kick an SL “kid” in the head (several times, repeatedly), knowing that a 50some sick perv is on the other side of the cable.

(Btw that’s why furries or prim cube avatars or monsters or whatever are ok with me, I can shoot them, they can shoot me.)

If you want to play as children, do it in a private sim and don’t merge with the public. And thank Lindens they haven’t yet banned these so-called ‘kids’.

if people perceive that SL is a hideout for Pedophiles, its not good for business. Doesnt matter if its true or not. Perception is reality.

I personally don’t know anyone that plays a kid, so I wont pass judgment, but its soooo easy for me to understand the perceptions around it.. Gor too..

I think those that favor roleplaying children in SL should be thankful SL hasn’t reversed its policy on the whole issue. Looks like a bomb waiting to go off to me.

True, Collin is right, but man, where did you go?? DID LINDEN BRAINWASH YOU?? One comment like that and you give them a little snack to feed on. :-S (They can say some disagreed, show our comments, and that some agreed and understood, while showing the only comment saying so, which is your one… :-S)

Too bad we can’t get Katharine Berry to join on this and suspend AjaxLife in protest. That would get the press here with the whole “shabang” - cameras, reporters, real-world news story at 7PM, etc. :-)

Some friends and me made a porposal to SL5B organization (before all that story of childs banning and such), a group installation instead of individual ones. After some conversations with SL5B Art Direction we saw our project was not matching SL5B art project, so we decided to make it for our own, totally outside SL5B. In a Mature sim, btw ;-p

Soooo… I’m free to show my nipples!