Like with religion rules, they should be imposed only to the religion followers. These people have to learn to respect other groups ideas and above anything, the idea that we *must* have freedom. Its the only way *they* can keep having their rules!

So stop harassing people who likes sex, to talk dirty or anything else short of griefing. If you dont like something youre seeing in me, please, dont look at me. If you dont like the way I talk, please, dont get around me, this way your pure ears will be preserved.

Innocence is to not see evil all around. Which means, people who scream “evil” every second is full of evil. Everything in life can be made in an innocent way. Sex is the first of them. And possibly the one that gives more innocent pleasure, so go on!

>Paula Dix

As others have said profiles are supposed to be PG in nature, but, now that LL have created adult land, where you can use explicit terms to advertise, they themselves have encouraged non PG picks and it would be rather unethical of them to disallow such picks as picks are a factor in search relevancy.

Having said that, this is LL we’re talking about, they haven’t done much homework on the adult issues and they have stated that “Business friendly mainland” is on its way, whatever that means!

/me loads his sawn-off shotgun

I shall begin honestly.

I am a prude. Proudly so! You said,

“Maybe we should have a special Prudia Island, where the infantile sex-haters and self-loathers can get together and sing Up With People songs together at church picnics, or whatever those creatures do when they’re not trying to put the rest of us in a ghetto.”

Be still my beating heart…oh, the sweet strains of paradise! You forgot the doily-making competition, but you have given me a new name for the continent of Zindra, after we have remade it into something pure and…cleansed.

Utterly cleansed.

Non-teengrid SL is only for people 18+. For the prudes out there, that means everyone, meaning EVERYONE, in SL is an adult. Period, end of discussion. If some of those adults can’t take being adults, they should go back to Amish country where they belong. SL is about – or should be about – free expression of ideas, including sexual ideas. If I see something in SL that’s too weird or freaky for me, I just ignore it or go somewhere else. Why? Because my perceptions of things are about *me*, and not about *them*. It’s up to *me* to deal maturely with things I encounter as I go through life, not freak out like a child whenever I find someone behaving in ways that aren’t my personal favorite ways. That’s the problem with prudes… they all think that “freedom” means *their* freedom to take away *your* freedom.

Maybe we should have a special Prudia Island, where the infantile sex-haters and self-loathers can get together and sing Up With People songs together at church picnics, or whatever those creatures do when they’re not trying to put the rest of us in a ghetto.

If someone doesn’t like your picks, mute them. End of drama, and end of their influence over you. Ultimately, that’s the one thing the prudes really seethe over… being ignored.

Yes, it was not your article so much as some of the posted comments that I was addressing. There is a disturbing and growing intolerance of those who favour a lifestyle built on a different “classification,” whether it is PG or Adult. The author of the comment above yours may be the poster child for this kind of attitude. It is, unfortunately, fostered by segregation of the sort that Zindra in particular necessitates. Should more of the “Facebook” crowd enter SL (although I am dubious that many will), they will mostly be of the PG/Mature persuasion I suspect, and the line dividing “Adult” from PG and Mature will sharpen even more. Sadly, SL culture is splintering: it is already fragmented along the lines of voice/no voice and immersionist/augmentationist. I suspect that Adult/non Adult will become yet another fissure, as “Adult” residents are increasingly unwelcome in non Adult areas.

The profile issue is going to cause more and more trouble, I predict. My own view is much like yours: yes, the 2nd Life profile page should probably be kept “clean,” and the profile as a whole should not include depictions of RL nudity or sex. But someone who is profile stalking and checking out picks and even groups is a little like the guest who rummages through the medicine cabinet while visiting a friend: if you are going to probe more deeply, you had better accept some personal responsibility for any shocks that result from your nosiness.

Hi! You do have a point, which wasn’t what I was trying to make. Using the church example, I wouldn’t want to go to church nude or pantless. My point is that just because I want to be naked over here on the nude beach shouldn’t mean that I’m unwelcome over there, dressed appropriately, in the church.

And part of that goes back to the profile issue. Someone mentioned how profiles need to be PG in search. And that is a rule that has been around for a long time. However, classified ads show up in the profiles of the person who makes them. Meaning if I have a classified for adult material, its going to show up in my profile, no matter where I am. If I favorite a place that has adult material, then the land description might have adult material, no matter where I am. My point is, we can’t always switch off the adult material and we have to realize that filters and tools cannot do all the work for us and that sometimes, as adults, we have to be able to click the small X, even if we are on PG land.

Yes land owners have a right to ban or allow access, but it needs to be balanced with what are the rights of the public to access a public space.