If you followed the ‘Second Life Age Play’ scandal more or less, you know that ‘Computer Generated Images’ of minors having sex are considered to be child porn by law in a few countries. We all know, that often a ‘depiction of sexual intercourse’ does not need to be utterly exact - breast implants - or even all revealing - sexy lingerie - to be arousing. And anybody who spends a certain amount of time in Second Life, realises it’s sexy - and ’sexy’ - industries are huge. But…

Virtual Sex in Second Life is far from perfect

1. You need to have the right add-ons (genitals, nipples, …) and even more, those need to be compatible!
2. You will need to shop for the right props (bed, animations, prim whipped cream & strawberries, … ).
3. Our breasts look horrible un-real and are only inflatable up to a certain point.
4. Lag can really ruin an experiencesexy underwear just does not work today.
5. You’re highly dependent on the language skills and imagination of your partner(s).
6. When not on voice, there’s no sensory interaction, unless you type well one handed.
7. For extremes you need to look into special designed viewers (such as RestrainedLife client) & scripting.
8. Privacy is a myth.
9. …

So that’s all good reasons why sex in Second Life - and probably in virtual worlds in general - sucks. So why is it still such a big business and success (see SL/Sex ratio and Loki’s Promiscuity Index)? My guesses:

The pro’s of Virtual World Sex

1. It’s not the sex itself. People dress sexy and flirt above what they would do in real life. They feel more secure because they have perfect bodies, are anonymous, have another gender, … in the virtual world.
2. There are no STD’s and if you get pregnant, it just costs you L$ in stead of a lifetime of responsibilities and a huge RL budget.
3. Lack of monogamous behaviour is not as frowned upon as in real life. So, more diversity… .
4. No real life physical damage is inflicted. Which makes room for a lot of fantasies to be enacted.
5. Costs are lower. (You pay some escorts in SL what you would spend on a drink for someone IRL, which has a higher fail rate.)
6. Opposed to the average internet porn, there is a sense of interaction: you can steer where the situation is heading, although limited by animations and sex gear.
7. Opposed to the average internet porn, if you associate your avatar with human self - which you are bound to do when spending some time inworld customising it - you more like it’s really _you_ out there, not some strange amateur couple getting it on and it probably triggers a lot of RL sex zones in the brain.

Why are the Virtual Sex Worlds not taken seriously?

But that are my thoughts on it - having wondered for virtual ages why so many people prefer having sex in-world of creating and shaping the world itself by building, creating fashion, animating, scripting, … . There are pure sex oriented virtual worlds out there in the metaverse - such Red Light Center - which are never mentioned as it comes to virtual worlds. Although, they probably have one of the highest commercial success possibility rates, they are hardly ever mentioned, and eg. no where to be found on Kzero’s virtual worlds overview. Strange, as it’s a perfect - almost better looking, see this dutch review - clone of Second Life with it’s own monetary value, content creators, club owners, … . And then there are the 3D games that focus only on sex - like SexVilla, and more here - which would probably be a bit hit on Xbox, Wii and Playstation, if released? Actually, apparently the softer Playboy: The Mansion is released for Playstation and Xbox. Or look at the amount of ‘X-rated’ content available for the Sims on X-Sims. I actually remember installing a patch for the Sims 1 so they could go skinny dipping in their in their pool a few years ago. *grins*

Movies ft. pixel humping

You used to have ‘animation movie porn’ with titles such as ‘Anastasia’ and ‘Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs’ - being mostly Disney remakes and available still on both torrent and DVD -, then later the ‘hentai anime‘, illustrated animation porn, became a real hit. Then definitely, the more ‘life like’ but still obviously fake CGI porn must have a great future ahead? From Sims (or X-sims) machinima such as Aladdin and Jasimine (NSFS warning) - expect no 1001 nights, it’s rather funny - over the NPIRL (sorry, Miss Bettina) Unemaro 3D series (Teacher, NSFS warning) which hugely inflated NPIRL breasts (sorry, Miss Tiessa) to Pr0n careers for video game stars: Final Fantasy X-2 film fragments ;) re-enacted and Kasume from ‘Dead or Alive’, there’s a wide range of versions to choose from. But still, we don’t hear much about them. So, my question for all those that practise SLex, -or those who just have an opinion - why do virtual worlds like Red Light Center and games like SexVilla don’t make it to the media? And why is amateur porn preferred over the more detailed, without limits CGI version of depiction of sexual intercourse? (And did I miss out on any ‘pro’s’ of virtual world sex? ;))

Hattip for the Aladdin & Jasmin video on YouPorn to - I promised to not mention the name, but do blame that person for the whole of this article which is exactly the article why the rest of the SLblogosphere never takes me serious! :D Let’s just dedicated it to Miss V. ;)


Tags: cgi, portfolio, red light center, slex, virtual worlds


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