Maybe I’m reading Mr. Au’s latest argument incorrectly, but it appears to be saying, because sex clubs have mundane items in them, they aren’t 100% sexual activities.
But look closer: entirely non-erotic are the furniture, the money, most of the textures, all the construction materials of the building, the fixtures, and more. Don’t believe me? Teleport there, and have a look for yourself.
Seen this way, maybe 10% of this location depicts commercial content that is unambiguously sexual. (And this in a white hot center of avatar-based sensuality.) If it’s just 10% here, how much smaller is it across the wide swathe of the grid?
I figure I MUST be reading it wrong. But to go with it, lets say that’s true… I’m just going to go on down to my local strip club and sit in the furniture, buy some drinks, and watch the girls. And that will perfectly all right with my wife because it was only about 10% sex related?
Or, if I watch porn, I can say I’m not really in it for the sex because someone had to create that bed and walls and presumably the cameras and the lighting and so on. I’m just a mundane item aficionado, what can I say.
To express this observation as a rough ratio, every time two avatars engage in sex, twenty content creators have spent untold hours creating and selling aspects of the environment they’re in, most of which having little to do with their chosen activity. In that sense, Second Life porn and erotica are, at best, a niche business dependent on a much larger, much more multi-varied market.
What kind of lousy argument is based around the idea that mundane items at strip club make the place mostly not related to sex? I’ll tell you what kind, James’s arguments when so lost in the grip of SL he can’t see straight. For the love of all.
I’d rail against this some more, but what’s really left to say? My only hope is that he’s trolling us and isn’t serious.
What Would Matt Do: I’d hope I’m never so embedded in anything that I can’t see the forest for the trees.
#1 by Haven Harbinger on May 25th, 2007 - 7:17 pm
Here’s teh idea.
For every manufactured genetal set, some dude had to put prim to prim to prim and make it, and script to script to make it work. None of which involve sex. And there are plenty of people who’re making those, so multiply it by that. Slice in the big heap of nonsex activities with a huge following in SL, and I think 10% might even be a bit high.
I severely doubt he was thinking what you said (read some of his other stuff). But certainly a bit confusing.