SecondLife - How To Make Money In Second Life

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In order to prevent misuse of the server, a server password has been added to the SLU Teamspeak server. The pasword is midnight in lower case.

Post Happy Holidays, y’all! I hope everyone made it through relatively unscathed and still as svelte as ever.

Tonight at 6PM SLT, drop by the iVillage Girls Night Out loft on Sheep Island - from there we’re headed over to the mini-continent of Eros (specifically Vegas 2) to meet with SL’s own King of Schwing, Stroker Serpentine!

The topic of sexuality in SL is one that I’ve always been interested in, albeit in an analytical way (I’m a pixel virgin, I’ll get that out of the way right now). And my first hour in SL, I managed to find a poseball shop in a long-forgotten mall, leading me to the revelation that yes, you really CAN do anything in Second Life. So when iVillage said they were up for some racy conversation, I jumped at the chance to try and wrangle Stroker into speaking with the group.

I met Stroker after he bid on me in a Relay for Life auction to rebuild his store, Strokerz Toys. I was pleasantly suprised to discover after talking with him for a bit that he’s a really funny, smart, and charismatic individual. He takes what he does seriously, but with that grain of humor and self-effacement that keeps him grounded. Overall, he’s a really great person in general, which will make this tour even more enjoyable.

Stroker will be talking about running a sex-enhancement business in SL, how he got started, why he does what he does, and hopefully share some stories from his many years in the biz. Vegas 2 is an empty sim that we’re setting up with a pavillion just for the tour, but its connected to the rest of the Eros continent so if you’d like to slip out and do a little shopping, you’re free and clear.

After we grill Stroker, we’re headed back to the loft for another live musical performance, this time courtesy of the lovely and talented Juel Resistance!

If you’re interested in getting more info on starting your own iVillage tour - and this will be soon, since next tour we’re looking to start having residents take over the helm - you can join the iVillage Girls Night Out group inworld, and contact either myself or Cider Starbrook inworld with your tour ideas. (Note to our UK residents, if you’d like to schedule a tour on UK time, we’re all for it!)

The electric-shock obedience experiment sent Stanley Milgram into infamy. It also was the catalyst for American Psychological Association to adopt ethical considerations when performing psychological experiments on people. Plus One
reports that a group in London re-ran the same experiment in a virtual
world and the results were eerily similar. The participants showed
comparable stress and anxiety levels. Their conclusions?

Our results show that in spite of the fact that all participants knew for sure
that neither the stranger nor the shocks were real, the participants who saw and
heard her tended to respond to the situation at the subjective, behavioral and
physiological levels as if it were real. This result reopens the door to direct
empirical studies of obedience and related extreme social situations, an area of
research that is otherwise not open to experimental study for ethical reasons,
through the employment of virtual environments

My conclusion?  I am not all that concerned with the world of obedience
studies but what I am concerned with is the empirical proof that a
virtual world can have a comparable emotional impact on is residents as
real world activities. This being said it lends additional support to
engaging in psycho-significant research and therapeutic activities in
the medium. For the human service sector it provides further credence
to the Asperger’s therapy work that is currently experiencing success in virtual worlds such as Second Life.