Naked Paradox: Secrets of Sexy Island, Second Life's Most Popular Sim (With a Mostly Empty Sex Castle)

Every day, a reported 2,500 people visit the clothing optional Second Life beach called Sexy Islands (SLurl teleport), which was last month’s most visited SL sim. And though they’re perfectly free to visit the wild sex castle nearby, most prefer to just stand around, naked and chatting.

That’s two surprising things I learned on a recent visit to Sexy Islands. A third: Once you arrive, you better be ready to start whipping off your clothes.

“We have dress code here,” a stern, statuesque brunette named Sina Vayandar informed me, smiling. “Nude or beach wear. So follow our rules now.” I quickly removed my white suit, and conducted the rest of the interview in boxers and socks.

While a third of Second Life’s most popular sims are rated Adult for having extreme violent or sexual content, Sexy Islands is actually Mature, which permits non-erotic nudity. It falls to Ms. Vayander and other island guards to keep the island’s visitors acting within those bounds:

“It is often very hard,” Sina tells me. “Many people believe it is a sex sim. New citizens, mostly.” Many come simply looking for sex, and the owners of Sexy Islands have an adjoining sim for just that purpose: “I tell the people it is a mature sim and not an Adult one. And I show [them] the Adult sim across over the bridge.” She refers to the sex castle across the water.

But here’s the paradox: Only some 10% of Sexy Islands’ visitors actually make the trip to the sex castle, Sina Vayandar tells me. “Here is the big traffic,” Sina says, referring to the strip of beach where dozens of avatars stand around, mostly talking with each other in various states of undress.

“Interesting that most stay here to chat and hang around non-sexually nekkid,” I observe.

“Yes,” Sina Vayandar says. “We don’t know why! Most of the people are not nude. May be too shy.” She estimates 25-40% do go nude. Among them, to be sure, are “many horny guys,” as she puts it, “with big big cocks and often erected.” However, that’s not allowed, because then the nudity becomes erotic: “Cock is OK, but not erections,” she clarifies.

So Sina Vayandar patrols the beach of Sexy Island, herself naked but for a single silver chain, keeping it safe for wholesome nudity. And if she does it with a certain blase calm, that could be because she’s from Berlin, and works from experience: “I use nude beaches in real life too.”

Comments

[Maeve Byron]

Let it all hang out, Hamlet!

[Laetizia Coronet]

"Check out the pixels on that one..."

Years ago already I made a shirt saying 'Quit Staring At My Pixels' across the chest, bemused as I was with the attention my handful of bits (heh) were grabbing.
It's pixels, people. Get real. I love this island and I enjoy my virtual freedom (such as there is) anywhere but sometimes...

[Ignatius Onomatopoeia]

Hamlet, that gal has nice hindparts...you know how to frame those shots :)

The neck tie is priceless. Is this the next Post Six series?