Such people all too often color their little attacks with very little fact and slather their opinions all over their comments.

All this having been said, I don’t put any of my SL or SL Herald activities on my university homepage or my vita because most academics in my area won’t consider it relevant, and will think of it as a crazy hobby. Which isn’t far off the truth.

So I guess I’m saying it all depends. Either that, or I’m saying don’t listen to me because I’m completely inconsistent on this.

At what point do you bring your SL employment onto your RL resume? For me, I wouldn’t put anything I’ve done in SL on my RL resume, and that includes writing for the Herald or being part of the SLBA. And partially that’s due to maintaining my pseudonymity. And while the RL/SL mix companies like Electric Sheep would probably mention SL ventures on their resumes, I’m not sure if a SL DJ would put down their gigs in SL on their RL resume. Would someone put fashion designer on their resume if they made silks in SL?

Has anyone put their SL employment on their RL resume?

Um, you yourself said it? I didn’t. It’s your description.

>Am I really distancing myself from it? I have a limited amount of time to spend on SL. So I have to chose what I am able to do. I’m doing other things besides escorting. And I have escorted and appeared on stage to help my clients with their business.

If escorting is so great, and so wonderful, and worth creating an entirely biased agenda and rights struggle around, why limit it?

>At the end of April, I did stop working as a manager at a sex club. Not because I had to clean up my rep for the Bar exam, but because I didn’t want the distraction of running a club for my last set of finals and studying for the Bar Exam. Why is everything a conspiracy or evil to you?

If you’re an anonymous avatar not connected to your SL name, you have to figure that your RL and SL names may not be connected. But you never know. Part of what happens when one passes the bar is that the state bar seeks character references and checks past employment. SO if it *did* get out, that may not be the best thing. That might likely be a factor in all your maneuvering and cunning career calculations. That way you get to be cool when you need to be in SL, and cool in RL, too.

>I do what I do with the SLBA, with the office hours and writing here in order to be involved with the community. Why is that an issue for you?

So the SLBA is a sex club? You lost me.

You do not have a single leg to stand on with your recent comments: You can speak for no other person but you can speak for yourself.

At the end of April, I did stop working as a manager at a sex club. Not because I had to clean up my rep for the Bar exam, but because I didn’t want the distraction of running a club for my last set of finals and studying for the Bar Exam. Why is everything a conspiracy or evil to you?

I do what I do with the SLBA, with the office hours and writing here in order to be involved with the community. Why is that an issue for you?

I don’t have any faux-Puritanical problem with escorts, prostitutes, sex workers, whatever you wish to call them. I’m all for sex workers and their rights. I create low-cost working conditions for them myself in some of my rentals, for example, and I can only support their legal and lawful chosen occupation. I do worry about how the Lindens might react to public opinion, or to zealous attorneys like Duranske finding something illegal in this activity somewhere, once they decide they’ve had enough fun pouncing on the new sex, which is free economic activity like Ginko’s and casinos. But that may be a while off.

What I really object to, however, is escorting and feigning to champion the rights of sex workers, but then pretending that isn’t an agenda, and an agenda that skews one’s views of general morality and law in SL. It does. It’s a lobby, and a biased one, at that.

And I object to the hypocrisy of doing sex work and promoting rights for sex workers, then conveniently dumping it right before one needs to clean up one’s act and pass the bar and go on to become “respected” in SL society. That’s crass. Wrong, even.

“Power hungry, attention-seeking asshole” would define someone not only exploiting sexploitation for profit and fun and dining out on the coolness of it, but then dumping it just when it threatened to be a bit of a rep problem, and then endlessly being able to bang on others for ostensibly being Puritanical if they point that out.

Don’t think I didn’t see you try to slip in another baseless hit against me. Then again, we can’t all have poor reading comprehension skills like you do. Yes, I escorted in SL. But I also do other things in SL and have tried my hands at other ventures besides escorting. I think you seem to have a problem with my position because I’m willing to say that I escorted and stand up for that right for others and not cower in the face of your puritanical, faux utopia-seeking judgment. Escorting shouldn’t define me anymore than power hungry, attention seeking asshole defines you.