We are adults!
September 1, 2007 by London Spengler
Yesterday I assisted to my first Diversionarium event and I loved it, even if it was so late that at the end I was almost asleep. I’ll publish some pictures of it someday, if our hostesses don’t do it first :-)

Sadly, it was so late for me and I was so tired, that I stopped paying attention to the incoming people, and when Asura Orr added a coment on the previous post saying she had liked to meet us, I wasn’t able to ubicate her. Asura, I promise I’ll pay more attention next time, and the less I can do is relay your message to LL about identity verification here.
“Robin, why didn’t you announce this decision at SLCC?
That was the best place to discuss with your community.
A sudden blog post AFTER SLCC is not a good way to talk something about “trust”, i believe.”
Now, this gives me the opportunity to agree with Casius Masala’s comment, too, about LL’s sad travel to mainstream.
I love SL because it is a mature place, and with that I dont mean sex, but a place for adults, to behave like adults. Of course not everybody does, like you can see on Lillie’s blog, but usually is enough to simply ignore them.
And yes, we, as adults, have different limits and it is hard to find a common ground. For example, I am sure that the pictures of my previous post are too much for some people, as Encore’s ones (warning, definitly NSFW!!!) are more than I whould publish here. Note: I am not critizising Encore’s blog, only mentioning we have different styles.
It is up to us to decide what we publish, and what we look at; our eyes whould not fall of our orbits if we see something that is too much for us… we only don’t have to go back to it. And yes, sometimes is hard to avoid it; the world isn’t perfect. That’s why I appreaciated the suggestion about adding a cut, so people who read feeds doesn’t have to “suffer” my pictures, when they have an erotic charge.
I like to read Lillie’s blog, and there is something that amuses and worries me at the same time, how Lillie worries about stablishing that she is a prostitute, but not a whore; she tries to be clear about that she sells her voice and digital body, but not her spirit. I feel that my own reputation as blogger is smaller than hers, since I shamelessly promote my products and I’ve shared my intimity here; but I do know that, even if both things are together, I am not selling my intimity to sell more products, I do because I want to, it is my style.
If I can keep my blogger self-steem high, Lillie should worry less about how her profession.
Now, without even daring to touch the pressures and motives of prostitution, I find that the ones who should feel ashamed are the customers, not the sellers… and even that frontier isn’t clear for me. I cannot despise a customer that fells solitude and pays for a (strange) kind of love, and I cannot approve a prostitute that despise her clients and make fun of them at their back, as I’ve seen in some comments at the Herald or the Avastar.
Being mature isn’t only matter of years, it is about knowing yourself, your limits, and test them. Tolerance, politeness, are a bonus. I try day by day to be mature, and sometimes fail. One of the handicaps of virtual worlds is that, since we lack of body language, emotions flow too high and we become unstable; small details can become extreme, painfull ofenses, if we aren’t carefull… we need to find a way to vent them, to ease the pressure, without becoming their slaves.
Blogging helps :-)
I’ll never be an utopian or a dystopian… I will not deny that it is them who brings the bigger, most awesome changes, and I respect their passion… but I like more a quiet, happy life, centered on the small details… even if sometimes they make me behave like a crazy, too emotive woman.
Sigh… let’s end this post with a lighter note, the responses to my half joke, half dare, to “show your nipples in protest for the Nipplegate”.
First, Laetitia told me she already showed them, long ago, in her own Drop your top protest, so it whould be redundant for her to do it again :-)
Also, Raul Crimsom did by himself, as an answer to the Nipplegate and without knowing about my post. Also, dandellion shows hers here, but since she doesn’t mention the post, I imagine it was only matter of chance.
but yes, I got my first nipple shower! I had to thieve DesertWolf’s pic and publish it here; thanks a lot! :-)
And, a day after him, we got Timothy ones, so two points for neko nipples :-)
Dalien is waiting for Vint’s permission so you will have to check from time to time his blog, but meanwhile he published his safe skin, and Vint will not show hers because she CUTTED THEM OFF!
I got her cut pack, but hadn’t the strenght to do the sacrifice, so I simply weared the shirt and brought the picture here :-)
Beware! NSFW cut here:
Even it seems fun to you, it is much harder for me to show myself half naked with my human avie that with my bolder, pale one; so count this picture as a small “sacrifice” for the cause, eyes closed and waiting for the cut (that will never come, I promised to Kat :-p).

Now, I don’t plan to publish naked pictures so often as I’ve done lately, even if they raise the readers *smiles at the involuntary double sense*. But if you whould like to appear here, after the NSFW cut, leave a comment with your SL name. I’ll IM you so you can send me a texture with your picture, and the motives that you have to want it posted.
For example, the beautifull Faerie Hax announced she is coming soon to the Caldarium so, if she accepts, I whould love to have her in this pages. Of course I whould never take or publish a snapshot without previous permission; the Caldarium, and all Pandora’s Peace, is a place to enjoy, not to be worried about me and my camera :-)



not sure what’s going on with the politics too much these days so i can’t comment on what all the kafuffle is all about. i read a comment from tenshi vielle (using smilintenshi or some such misnomer) which seemed to be quite “officious”. it did seem as if she was speaking for Tao Takashi, the administrator of the “Planet of …” aggregator.
as it regards your response, if ms vielle does have any weight in the planet domain, enough so as to dictate their criteria, i would have considered their entreaties quite shameful. going out of their way to censure you in public substantially weighs my decision of joining their group. should they have made more effort to contact you professionally and in a friendly manner? might have saved the emo.
and, who says my pix aren’t safe for work? it all depends on just where you work. everybody around here seems to think they’re innocent enough. teehee.
I doubt that Tenshi represented any official posture, only that she saw it at the feed and expressed her (dry) oppinion, that I respect. I have no problems about letting readers choose what they want and don’t want to see.
And, ok… your pictures aren’t safe for some works, then .-)
Hehe. London.. ::Pokes her with shifty eyes.:: You can -always- post pictures of me here, if you want to. Boost readers or whatever. ::Giggles, with more shifties.:: And.. Dear lord, Mayne, those are sooo hot. o.o
My boobs in the last post were… hmmm… I am not sure… I promised them for the one before on the pownce, but that afternoon, after cutting… well, I still have to think about that feeling, but for sure, I was not ready for boobs photo-session. This photo is one from the album.
I know, Kat, it is only I usually forget to take them :-p.
dandellion, I already said that you didn’t associated it with my “dare”, and only wanted to mention, not to capitalice/use it in any way.
And I agree that if you don’t feel like that, you shouldn’t do “boob” pics. They should be made for fun, with a happy spirit. That’s why I asked them… to laugh at a silly, and sad, situation.
That’s no problem, London. I’ve just had an encounter with you two at your store, and it was only a few minutes.
Anyway, I completely agree with you about the reason why we love SL.
I want to live in a balanced place. Not too sanitized, but not too dirty like a porn site. I mean, I don’t want to be forced what should I do, in any direction.
I afraid that the recent move of LL will add high pressure on people, and it may kill the core value of SL, the creativity. :(
Let’s all get together topless and send postcards to Iridium. She has a nice office set up in Beaumont we can use for it :D
Ahh, I thinked it was at the Div; now I remember you, Asura (at least I believe so, but I’m never too sure :-p).
And yes, live in peace and freely… I loved SL three years ago, and I still love it, but when it started growing… :-(
And, Laetizia; set the day and the hour and I’ll be there… unless I can’t :-p.
Well I decided to go and test the waters for your benefit. Beaumont, by the way, is a Mature sim.
Reproduction by you, London, is permitted if you decide to do some sort of follow-up.
/me gawks at the water test :-)
Of course I whould love to publish it, and write a post, maybe called “breaking-and-entering”, showing the difference between the thing that you could do legally, like taking the picture, and the ones common sense as us not to do, like not getting naked in somebody’s office or censuring a statue?.
But, to be true, the idea is yours; why don’t you post it and I link to it? (probably thieving your picture in the process :-). Anyway, I am going soon on holidays for some days, so I whouldn’t be able to follow the story until I comed back, only to publish a single post before going.
I’ll log in later, find the office, take my own picture and send it to you as a texture. Then you can decide who should write it.
/me sighs… I should had readed your comment better… I’ll use your picture as your answer to my dare, take one of myself there as a double dare, and then give it to you, seeing if you publish it (triple dare? :-p).
Look for the incoming post :-)
I did post my self, however i still think the censored version is better to this story…. http://thewintermarket.blogspot.com/2007/08/nadine-meditating.html
Yes, I know, Nadine. Thanks again for it; I added my answer to your other comment in the previous post.
I hate to feel compassion for Linden Labs, but I am wondering what directives and goals they are struggling with. I am curious how close they are to the edge of financial stability and if they feel they are pinned in between offending their current user base and being unable to attract the mainstream they need to continue as an ongoing concern.
Posting from vacation on the Pacific Coast. The weakest internet access ever and $10 a day to boot! Maybe that’s why I am willing to consider the other side of the equation today.
London… I wonder what you wold have looked like if you had let me dress you in that babydoll I have for you.
Hey, I am back from holidays! (ugghh, slow and pricey Internet, how twenty centurish!).
Yes, LL must be having a hard time trying to match the “free enviroment” concept with multiple country regulations, or simply public oppinion pressure. But they should learn to apologice and correct themselves when they make huge mistakes, too :-p.
The babydoll is a nice offer, Casius, but I’ve never been one for them, and probably Nat whould had something to say about it, too :-)
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