This short post is to bring to your attention a feature introduced in SL some time ago that will have privacy implications for some residents.
Dec 12
How to Subscribe Anonymously
Aug 01
Collars in SL
What the well dressed bimbo is wearing this season
Second Life has a wide variety of scripted collars, that are great fun to play with and can enrich an online BDSM experience or relationship. But this article isn’t really about them. I want to talk about the concept of collaring – that is, a submissive giving themselves to a dominant, and accepting a collar to show their position in the relationship.
It seems to me that many subs in SL get collared far too quickly. People get to know each other, have a bit of fun, go straight to collaring, and then a week or two later, split up and go their separate ways. Now, this is fine for those who enjoy that, but I’d be looking for a deeper experience. I find myself very reluctant to call anyone my owner, even just for play in a scene – it’s not a term I use lightly, and if I ever do use it, I want it to mean something.
Some time ago, I came across Inara Pey’s excellent page on collars in SL which was a real eye opener. (The whole blog is worth reading – she has probably already covered anything I could think of to say on BDSM in SL, and better – the link is at the end of this article.) In that page on collars, she brings her offline BDSM experience into SL, and puts forward an approach to collaring that makes it the kind of courtship I think it should be. Her article is well worth a read, but here is the part I found most intriguing:
Mar 13
The dangers of being hypnotised by a bimbo
This entry is part of a series, Hall of Fame»
My friend Hallie is a bit of a bimbo fanatic. She wants to be hypnotised into being a sex-crazed, shopping-mad sexy giggly brainless bimbo.
It’s something I’d like to experience being triggered into, temporarily, as well.
Hallie is also learning to be a hypnotist. So…
Posts in this series:
- The dangers of being hypnotised by a bimbo
Mar 06
Second Life is a Fiasco?
“It’s official, Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system gets the prize for being the most overhyped, underperforming information and communication technology (ICT) project.”
That’s the report from Scientific America, on the first ever Fiasco Awards held in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb 26th, 2009.
What caught my eye, though, was that among those nominated was Second Life. Now, I’ve experienced my share of crashes, and inventory loss, and the sort of glitches that every user of Second Life sooner or lets gets familiar, so it wasn’t a complete surprise. But then I read why it was considered a fiasco:
The last part makes sense (after all, most people who try SL give up after 2 hours, never to return), but I am speechless at the idea that it’s ruled a fiasco simply because it requires people to install it…
Feb 20
Hypnotron – the ultimate Second Life hypnosis machine?
There are hypnosis machines in Second Life – objects that when you sit your avatar in them, you get hypnotised in the real world. They are soooo cool! They come in a wide variety, from alien slave pods to entrancing paintings, and even brain implants. I plan to review them all. But for this first review, I’ll start with perhaps the most common of them all, the device that sets the standard by which all others are judged. I am talking, of course, of the Hypnotron.
Feb 18
The Pursuit of Happiness
Often, those of us who spend time in online worlds are told to “get a life,” as if ‘living’ in a virtual community is somehow less rewarding or wholesome than, say, spending our evenings in a pub getting wasted. (Of course, it’s not an either/or situation – we can do both! Sometimes at the same time!)
But on the “get a life” criticism, here is an interesting article from Reuters:
Feb 16
Slavery and Submission in Second Life
“But doesn’t a small part of you wish … to be so totally enraptured with someone that you don’t even want to say no, much less think it.”
“If you could have a total brainwashing with anyone as the mistress, who would it be?”
I was asked these very intriguing questions within an hour of each other, by two friends who happen to be SL hypnodommes. There’s a hidden assumption in these questions, one which highlights a very interesting difference between the traditional BDSM world, and the hypnosis community of Second Life.
