What Should A Slave Girl Look Like?
Ask A Virtual Slave Girl
What Should A Slave Girl Look Like?
Ask A Virtual Slave Girl
Here we have two slavegirls in one of the most public spaces in the
virtual world known as Second Life (the Gor Hub) and look how they're
dressed -- they're both practically naked, and the most practically naked
one is in bondage in virtual public. I thoroughly approve of this. (And no,
that's not my avatar facing the camera, though I do look kinda like that in
real life. Honest. Really.
Copyright 2009 by Pat Powers
OK, so there's this virtual world on the Web called Second Life that is a lot like World of Warcraft except that it's not all oriented toward medieval fantasy, in fact, the Second Life world isn't oriented toward anything -- it's divided into various regions and the players make the rules about how you play in each region on the grid ("the grid" is the term for the Second Life world simulation).
There's a wide range of costuming available to slavegirls in virtual Gorean markets, from stuff that would look at home on a public beach in the U.S. where nudity is generally Frowned Upon (lower left) to stuff that is difficult to distinguish from total nudity (upper right).
There are many people who enjoy roleplaying in Gorean sims on Second Life: I've read estimates that the various Gorean sims on Second Life comprise the third largest roleplaying sim in Second Life, which has been described as having five million members. It has been estimated that over 5,000 people a day go through a single Gorean market site, The Gor Hub, and that there are 200-300 Gorean sites in the Gor region (most have considerably less traffic than The Gor Hub, but many Gorean roleplayers go directly to their favorite site instead of going through the Hub).
The Gor Hub, and most Gorean markets (most Gorean sites have a market of some kind) are like almost any mall, a group of stalls where various corporations sell their goods. And as in most malls, the majority of stall holders sell (virtual) clothing.
And here's the point: look at what the virtual slavegirls of the Gor region choose as their preferred clothing: EXACTLY the sort of thing I've been saying slavegirls should be wearing in sword and sandal/sorcery movies. (Frex, compare the outfits in Electric Blue #44, which I cited as the best sexy slavegirl outfits to date, with the costumes seen here. I'd say the Second Life costumes are often sexier than the ones seen in Electric Blue.)
The role of slavegirls in Gorean fantasy roleplay is highly sexualized so of course their outfits are sexy. (Enjoying a highly sexualized virtual lifestyle is one of the major attractions of Second Life, which has an "over 18" requirement for participants, though there are plenty of Second Life regions that aren't sexual in nature.)
Here's a kajira doing a sexy dance at the Gor Hub, wearing only a thong. A fairly commonplace sight, especially if you have some coin to jingle -- and Linden bucks, the local currency, are really cheap -- 5 USD buys you 1000 Linden bucks. Now, that's arbitrage!
By the way, I have blacked out the names of the avatars in this scene. Normally a person's name floats above their heads, and since I didn't solicit anyone's permission to run this photo, I think the right thing to do would be to protect their identity. Since avatars are purchasable as well as clothes (you get both for free when you sign up, but hey, when it's your body why not upgrade?) I'm not revealing identities by showing appearances.
What's going on? I suspect that the freedom that the Internet has brought to people to express themselves sexually (and relatively safely) in the virtual world has created an increased tolerance for and interest in sexual imagery and activity among a large portion of the younger, more Internet savvy population. The older, less cyber-hip filmmakers are completely missing out on this, just as the old media (think newspapers) missed the way the immediacy of the Internet would eat their lunch.
Some mainstream media do get it. In 2007 Maxim put Second Life avatar called "Callie Cline" on its Hot 100 List of the hottest babes of the year. I don't think she's all that compared to any of the other avatars, who are uniformly beautiful (just as all the male avatars are handsome). But feel free to check out the link above and decide for yourself. The audience is still far ahead of filmmakers with regard to sexuality, however.
Hollywood producers, directors and writers would listen to me and the Gorean kajira roleplayers on Second Life they have any sense, but for the most point, they don't. Every R-rated sword and sorcery movie could benefit from this sort of costuming. But it's unlikely to happen, even though it's been repeatedly proven that sexy sword and sandal/sorcery movies do well at the box office, though their budgets be ever so low. Low fantasy beats high fantasy, every time.
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In short, I don't think the taste for sexy slavegirl clothes in Second Life is being driven by a bunch of gay guys disguised as slave girls. Someone once said of Second Life Gor, "Gor is actually run by a bunch of bored housewives posing as slavegirls." He or she was probably right, in my opinion. So, it's not gay people that share my opinions about how slavegirls should be dressed, it's bored housewives who join me in my masculine and studly ... er ...
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