I took on this assignment because I love a good
challenge, even more so when said challenge is also entertaining! Picking up
the virtual rocks to see the virtual bugs that scatter from underneath, I took
a few looks into some of the darker and stranger corners of Second Life, and
what it has to offer. Before I get started, though, I want to say nothing here
is meant to offend anyone, merely to express awe at things unusual that I found
lurking through the grid. If I offend anyone, I apologize, it is not my intent.
First
up?
Maternity
and Abortion Clinics!
Firstly, let me say, I understand the Maternity aspect of
this very well. Lots of women cannot have children in RL, and through HUDs like
Mama Alpa, and others, a woman can kind of get to experience having and raising
a child. While, obviously, it’s not the same, I see the draw there. What I
cannot understand are the clinics in SL which also perform abortions. Wait,
abortions??
I thought SL would
be a perfect place to engage in the mom game, but do ‘accidents’ really happen
in SL like they do in RL? Why would someone need to have an abortion in SL? If
you buy the HUDs to breed, wouldn’t it then make sense that you WANT the child
more than anything, as evidenced by how much a person is willing to pay for the
HUDs (which, mind you, have a realistic odds system for getting pregnant build
right into it,)? I’m not claiming to know all here, I genuinely don’t
understand. Please, if you have a story about an accidental pregnancy in SL,
feel free to share your story in the comments and help me understand!
Next
up?
Church,
in Second Life!
This one is only
strange to yours truly because of how scarily similar to RL churches, SL churches
can be. I got to listen in on a service, and it gave me goose bumps and
flashbacks to being a too curious for my own good creature, slowly suffocating
in her nylons (it’s a sensory processing issue, can’t stand their texture,
makes my skin scrawl.) While SL churches provide an AMAZING service to those
who cannot get out of their homes for their RL Sunday worship (or Saturday, or
Friday, religion depending,) to those who are mobile enough, but just need
their dose of God even in SL. Hooray for community! However, Second Life
churches, to those who do NOT have a need of their services, are undeniably
creepy places. Avatars dressed either as angels, or in virginal white, sing
hymns, while preachers tell you Bible Stories and pass around the virtual
collection plates (some things never change, from RL to SL. Sigh. Since when
does God need money?) Anyways, back on point. SL churches, while greatly
helpful to some, give nightmarish flashbacks to others. Catholics, I know
you’ve got my back on this! For an even stranger twist, some of these churches
worship the Gods of Sex, if you catch my drift. So whether your needs are
simple, non-denom Christian, or any other standard religion, you can find a
church for you in Second Life. And if you worship Sex Gods? Well, there are
plenty of churches for you, too, that are infinitely more fun, I’d wager.
Next
up in our sideshow circus?
Rape
Sims and Gangbang Shows
Now, this is the
ultimate winner in the tableau of weird, strange, and bizarre things that SL
has to offer. There are places, where if you have the right HUD, you can engage
in what I like to call the Rape Games. You go there, turn on your HUD (maybe
more steps, I’m not sure, I don’t have a RAPE HUD,) and then let the games
begin. Being a diligent little Avatar, I went to go check out one of the places
where folks hang out for the Rape Games. Almost immediately, an Avi started
following me. I moved, he followed. I moved, he followed. You get it. I
immediately told a safe white lie that I knew would end the conversation I knew
was coming. “Dude, I have a massive (BLEEP), you want that? Keep following.”
Naturally, it worked, and I was free to snoop again, however by that point, I’d
felt I’d seen enough to know that it’s a creepy, bizarre scene. Not judging
those who engage in the play themselves, but there are a lot of rape victims in
the world. I doubt they had fun with it. To me, making a game out of something
others experience as an unwanted, violating, horror in their life, others role play
it because it tickles their proverbial toes. But still, I found worse… The
Gangbang shows.
Yeah, you read
that right. There are places in SL where you can go watch a Gangbang show. And
that’s exactly what it is, a show, where a bunch of usually dudes, gang up on
one usually chick, and go to town on her, while being verbally degrading to her
as well. The only other Avatar I felt safe while there was my tiny fly. Not
that you can’t see me, or find my nametag, but thankfully as a fly I was safe
from approach. This wasn’t a bestiality sim, after all (though I saw one of
those too and I now know, not that I wanted to, where to go if you want your
Avi to get it on with a horse.) I can’t really go into any more detail without
this suddenly becoming an X-rated column, but for those of you out there who
just NEED some weird, feel free to seek out your bizarre sex churches (and
traditional ones as well,) your Rape Games or your Maternity clinics, where you
can birth prim babies and also satisfy a milk maid fetish at the same time.
Ahh, SL, it’s always been your intrinsic weirdness that’s
stolen my heart. Go on, Avies, fly your freak flag hard, explore and tell us
about the strange things you’ve encountered in Second Life.
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