On occasion *cough* i travel also to adult sites within SL. A really big turn off for me is, when those places are decorated with RL porn pictures. And this for several reasons. If i wanted for example to see RL porn, i could easily do so within my browser, whatever video channel or tons of other means, that would not require me to load my SL viewer, and to teleport to a location.
Also, it kills the fantasy. Many RL porn pictures are just that. Porn. And the few "erotic pics" then just also show RL erotics, the same applies as for porn: why go to SL for a RL picture? it defeats the purpose to me.
SL is not "more" than RL, but "different". One can unfold fantasies that are not possible in RL. And enjoy beauty, structures, ideas, that one can not see in RL. Same applies of course vice versa. I have yet to see a smelling flower in SL. That is only RL, for example. As many other things are too.
However, if i am in SL, i want to experience it as immersed as possible. And so i walk into a gallery and see... RL pictures.
I am glad, that i found via another blog a gallery that hosts an artist with SL erotic pictures. Well, actually the S-URL in that blog did not work, so i had to extract first the location of the gallery from the curators profile, and then guess the correct altitude.
It seems to be more than one gallery. On arrival at this spot: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alope/161/79/602 i saw one gallery with very nice pictures, like this example here:
Guessing then the correct location for the gallery that was discussed in the other blog i landed here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alope/161/79/525
And there is a very different style of pictures, one example:
There is a ton more to see, and its an example of art in SL, that proofs, one can make really beautiful erotic pictures, within SL. I hope, to see more of that.
Thank you to both artists!
And to my dear readers: visit, now.
Also, it kills the fantasy. Many RL porn pictures are just that. Porn. And the few "erotic pics" then just also show RL erotics, the same applies as for porn: why go to SL for a RL picture? it defeats the purpose to me.
SL is not "more" than RL, but "different". One can unfold fantasies that are not possible in RL. And enjoy beauty, structures, ideas, that one can not see in RL. Same applies of course vice versa. I have yet to see a smelling flower in SL. That is only RL, for example. As many other things are too.
However, if i am in SL, i want to experience it as immersed as possible. And so i walk into a gallery and see... RL pictures.
I am glad, that i found via another blog a gallery that hosts an artist with SL erotic pictures. Well, actually the S-URL in that blog did not work, so i had to extract first the location of the gallery from the curators profile, and then guess the correct altitude.
It seems to be more than one gallery. On arrival at this spot: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alope/161/79/602 i saw one gallery with very nice pictures, like this example here:
Guessing then the correct location for the gallery that was discussed in the other blog i landed here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Alope/161/79/525
And there is a very different style of pictures, one example:
Thank you to both artists!
And to my dear readers: visit, now.
This is so absolutely right and says exactly what I feel. This real life porn shit turns me off so much. It brutally throws you out of the sl fantasy. Its a paradox. Why would i go to the trouble of making an account and going to SL when there i get confronted with RL shit? It's defying the whole purpose of SL. Thank you soooo much for posting this!
ReplyDeleteAnd how sad that nobody else thought this was worth a comment.
Love you YT!
Gera
Maybe, just maybe, if all the avatars in SL looked so realistic that you could see the difference between a SL snapshot and a RL picture, the RL pictures wouldn't stand out like an eyesore. Some RL 'artistic', more erotic, stylized pictures, CAN work in a SL setting, because in those cases they become more like a drawing. But it is rare.
ReplyDeleteIn most cases, it breaks the spell.