Nipplegate: The Sag-a Continues!
SL5B naughty bits scandal expands to elbows
by Kris Dibou
Venus De Milo
I received a tip, dear readers, that a short distance behind the Statue of David stood Aphrodite, nipples exposed. To verify this sighting, the Herald was there in no time with experts who have allegedly seen nipples before. To our dismay, we could not determine if we were looking at nipples or not.
Famous snail-detective Happy Trails offered this twist on the situation:
"It would seem to me that the Lindens mistook this lady's arms for nipples, and removed the wrong items. They must have used a very large cleavage to cut them off with, or perhaps with the availability of alcohol in SL, they were just bosom too much and cut off the wrong things."
One of our experts stated that the breasts were pointed, thereby indicating the existence of nipples even though they were not shaded as such. I was quick to point out that Artfox's wooden nipples were round and not pointed, so perhaps pointy is what you have when there is no nipple.
"We need to nip this thing in the bud", exclaimed Happy, "Time to make a clean breast of this business. We need a tete-a-tete with the Lindens and determine the definition of a nipple. Until then, no avatar is safe, from the little furries running on the ground to the big hooters up in the trees. It sickens me to think of little children titillated by these statues."
Happy went on to say "The Lindens may be a bunch of boobies, but however they define nipples is what we must go with, lick(sp) it or not."
I could see it now; a whole grid full of people with no arms because the Lindens couldn't tell a nipple from an elbow. Artfox may have removed the wrong body parts.
I plan to withhold comment until I know Jimbo's stand on the matter .
JIMBO FOR PRESIDENT !
Posted by: Just Me | July 02, 2008 at 08:56 PM
Hmmmm it seems that Venus is especially interesting for nipple-deleting. There is another (Botticelli's) one at the SL5B Isle of Lesbos. http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/world-of-the-extremes Wherever this is all going, we're not going to like it.
Posted by: dandellion Kimban | July 03, 2008 at 03:49 AM
Nipples or no Nipples,, thats the BIG question?
Do it matter if you are Lesbian- Bi- Hetro? Man or Women? Is a PG nipple diffrent from other Nipples? lol....ok so nipples are ( or can be ) sexy... moust of us also got the first food from nipples. We take away the plate( read Nipple) lol
The whole Nipple ting on this matters are silly, but i guess you all know that?
Posted by: janeforyou Barbara | July 03, 2008 at 11:20 AM
I'm surprised nobody has brought up Phillip's Statue with the huge throbbing multi-colored bulge in the crotch... Surely that is worse than nipples could ever be?
Posted by: Darien Caldwell | July 03, 2008 at 03:32 PM
there has to be something very strange about anyone who censors nipples
but not the penis
strange wierd puritanism up there with the Voyager plaque on which the female genitals were not depicted in case unknown aliens saw them
maybe it has something to do with the Lindens being American?
Posted by: Corona Anatine | July 04, 2008 at 08:34 AM
Linden Lab is concerned about decency? In a world that is widely considered the leading platform for virtual sex? In a world where free sex beds are so common that they might as well be in the official newbie starter inventory. In a 'game' where the only reliable movement is that produced by poseballs? When the majority users' profiles say 'what goes on in SL stays in SL'.
How are they going to react when the news of a new viewer that renders every avatar nude hits the mainstream press?
The sexual activity within SL makes 'Hot Coffee' look like lukewarm watered down decaf.
Posted by: Ric Mollor | July 04, 2008 at 10:46 AM