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Human Trafficking Mansion Is Not Just About Sex

“I came here to roleplay a rape, and all the guys just want to hold my hand! Do I have to beg?” by Wendell Holmer Through the hobnailed oak doors of an old monastery, I saw three women huddled around a bar. Their whispers echoed across the stone floor.“Anyway, hun,” Mary was saying, “the reason [...]

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Vanity: The First Deadly SL Sin

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who’s the fairest of them all?”by Sigmund Leominster It’s a curious feature that there is one particular piece of furniture that doesn’t really translate from RL into SL – the mirror. Here in the Metaverse, people don’t really need to see themselves, thanks to the miracle of the third-party point [...]

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Bots Make Mockery of Traffic Statistics

50k of traffic – but nobody is homeDoes bot abuse explain population growth and stagnant economy? by Amazing4u, concerned citizen Teeing up the Avro, Honi, and Enzo bot clans in a skybox over Liberty Central S Just thought I’d drop you a line and a photo of so-called Bot abuse. I went looking for a [...]

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Music Not Politics – An All-Weekend Live Music Event

by Jessica Holyoke Starting Friday night, Money Island and the neighboring Money Tree Island and Freebie Island are holding a 48 hour event celebrating live music. Chelseamarie Noel While listening to the silky smooth stylings of Chelseamarie Noel, I had a chat with Throughthesewalls Moody, a promoter/manager of live musical acts on Second Life. Throughthesewalls [...]

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Calcirya Fall — Post 6 Grrrrrrl

[Note from Justine: This week I found Calcirya Fall and was thrilled when she said she'd pose. I had never heard of a futanari neko, and was pleased to make the acquaintance of one in Calcirya. I hope my pictures do justice!]. Well that is me so I don’t know what else I can say. [...]

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The Wurkin’ Girls of Little Paradise

Pre-teen girls modeling for L$25/hour – plus tips – say SL needs “more wadies who wanna dopt widdle ones” by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Tabitha and Yoshiko twirl in place live modeling clothes — Sonja0606 Eichel disrobes and is ejected from Little Paradise Recently, I visited the Little Paradise sim – and discovered a [...]

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The Fashionista’s Guide to IP Anonymizers

Fashionista drama means everyone can take hints from the goons and griefers by Tenshi Vielle When one is browsing the web and doing nefarious things, wouldn’t you just hate to leave a trail of IP address footprints that will show up if, say, you were dumb enough to post on a website as both your [...]

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One Year In SL – Why the Wild West is Failing

by Soul4sale Ferraris I turned one year old this weekend. I first rezzed into SL on March 15, 2007 for the same reason most everyone else has in the last year – I was bored, and it was free. After a year of traipsing around its digital landscape, I’ve formed several hard opinions, and they [...]

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Glamis Decosta — Post 6 Guy

[Note from Justine: I decided it was time to take a break from the Post 6 list for a couple of weeks and get a little variety in the mix. As soon as I thought we should feature a Post 6 Guy, I spotted Glamis Decosta and was very happy he said he'd pose]. When [...]

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So Long Phillip Linden

by Jessica Holyoke I was planning to write an article about the dying art of immersion outside of roleplay when this came across the wire.  Reuters http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/03/14/exclusive-rosedale-to-step-down-as-linden-lab-ceo/ has the exclusive report of Phillip Rosedale being replaced as CEO of Linden Lab.  While he plans to stay on as Chairman of the Board, Rosedale will continue [...]

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