The great unverified experiment.

Congressman says ban Second Life in schools and libraries.

Good idea. No need for it there anyway.

I seriously think kids should no more be allowed to wander the internet alone than to wander city streets alone. And a parent who allows that is negligent.

This made me think about something- an experiment I suddenly feel I should undertake.

I'm not age verified. No real interest in hitting up the sex spots in Second Life, and a certain issue with the layout of the age verification form (I can't put my address in it) prevented me from doing so. But that's good now, because I want to see how many of the Popular Places (many of which are sex-oriented) I can just hop into.

So... Here we go.

#6 popular place today is a "free sex & orgy room". I teleported in and immediately realized that the "uhhmm" and "rrrrgh" I was seeing in chat was supposed to be sex. O_O I get to have real sex so perhaps I just don't see the appeal. In any case, I am not verified by Linden Labs' "snoop service" (the paranoid make it sound that way) to be an adult- I shouldn't be able to see that!

Next up...

#12 on popular places. They put out a lot of warnings at this "free sex orgy room", stating it's for 18+ avatars- but there's no actual ban on unverified avatars. My avatar is an adult but a very short one by SL standards (I am made to look like my First Life avatar, a 5'4" adult human female who despite being over 30 still gets mistaken for a kid on occasion) and although they claim to disallow child/teen avs, I teleported to their "orgy room" and no one noticed. I am glad I look young in my first life, but this is one case where I should have been chased off for being such a youthful little wisp.

#18 was closed for remodeling, but sells sex furnishings. I'll try 'em tomorrow when they should be open, and see if I can teleport in.

#19 also sells sex furnishings. Teleported into a shockingly deserted store (considering the traffic level). They have a shouting object that touts their sexy furniture, but no obvious sex was going on upon my arrival. Still- this is an adult place, and someone like me, who is not a verified adult, shouldn't even be able to get there.

Age verification is useless if parcel owners won't flag their land.

Oh and I want to express my gladness that only a handful, and not many of the popular places are sex-oriented. I stand corrected on that score.