Some of you may have noticed an increase in new residents over the last few days. When I say increase, I mean a constant stream of new residents landing on the islands where new residents take their first steps. If you aren’t a Mentor you may not have noticed. I am a Mentor and spent a few hours on one of the Help Islands working with these new residents. Why the influx? Well apparently the media in Europe had been broadcasting about sex in SL and a RL couple getting divorced because of it.
It shouldn’t be much a surprise then to find quite a few new residents looking for sex in SL. It happens every time one of these stories runs. You never see this kind of coverage when for example the Crown and Pearl last year raised in the neighborhood of $3,000USD for Cancer Research. Or when the Relay for Life raises thousands of dollars and has hundreds of people involved. Nope, we get the big media push for sex. I suppose people would rather read about sex than any charity. Ok, fair enough but, if the media was really doing it’s job, it would do a bit of research. There are positives and negatives to everything.
So, back to sex and the noob. Sounds like a game show huh. lol Felt like one over the weekend, or perhaps it was a combat simulator. In any event, I was asked more than once how to have sex, where to have sex, if I would have sex, would I teach them sex, and oh my favorite, *can I haz money to have sex with you*. Sorry, I don’t pay people to have sex nor do I pay them to have sex with me. I’m soooo not that desparate. LMFAO
So if you see a naked noob running around asking for sex, now you know why.
I think this is the story you’re referring to?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/3453273/Woman-divorces-husband-for-having-a-virtual-affair-on-Second-Life.html
Second Life was in the UK press a few times last week, that story included along with this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7727044.stm
To be honest I’m not even sure why the first story got leaked to the press. That kind of thing happens a lot throughout Second Life, and RL. The woman who was divorcing her husband said her solicitor had dealt with a similar SL divorce case only that week! I guess it’s the sheer wackiness of it.