One of the key things about business here is looking at areas in which your competitors are not as developed and explioting those “gaps” to your advantage. Something that you are actively doing with your assessment of Miss Erica Campbell’s initiative.

In my opinion, SL is all about people pushing boundaries – which is great because we don’t necessarily have the courage or confidence to do that in our first lives. Taboos and all, yanno. So, I’ll give it up for ya there. The hair comment wasn’t an insult, just a suggestion on keeping things visually appealing for your customers. Good luck

Thomas – I think your last two paragraphs are wonderful, and sum up my thoughts completely.

People like to be judgemental. Humans also like to “clan up” and parrot the same opinion, I assume to save themselves from exercising that slushy stuff between their ears.

I don’t particularly care to partake of Cardie’s wares. Likewise, I’m not a fan of Gor, or BDSM, or Ponygirls, or…well, you get the drift. But those are all personal preferences: opinions. I feel little need to gather other citizens together to parrot my opinion, to warm myself in the reflected heat from the woolly coats of the sheep-like masses.

In fact, if there is one thing I get a bit angry about it is people who form opinions not based on what goes on in their own heads, but based on what others will think of their opinion. These are usually the same folks who throw insults at people with contradictory opinions, as if having *their* particular collection of biases is the only true sign of intelligence.

Cardie is having fun, or at least finding a business niche and filling it. Other people enjoy looking at her pixellated images and letting their own imagination fill in the blanks. Eroticism is mostly in the mind, and for those who don’t get this, I feel sorry for you and your partners. So long as she hurts no one but herself, I’d say “hurrah for Cardie”.

And frankly, for the folks who look at a real-life supermodel or a girl with staples in her navel in their favorite gentleman’s magazine…if those folks think *that’s* real, they really do have some problems to work through