Fertility

OK...not strictly 'erotic', but certainly one element of SL sexuality is pregnancy (or the opportunity to become pregnant and give birth to a prim baby). I suppose we're all infertile in SL, and this makes for the opportunity to be very sexually active, all the time. I wonder how much this might change if all avatars were born fertile, and it was possible to become pregnant (or make someone pregnant)? I suspect the SL landscape would change dramatically. Imagine being able to read that that hot looking girl already had 5 or 6 prim babies. Imagine being able to read that the hot guy had fathered 8 babies to 8 different women. Imagine guys having to go and buy condoms with real L$!!! rather than just assume female avatars were a sperm receptacle. Imagine women finding their SL was curtailed by SL pregnancy. Imagine SL abortion clinics. Anti abortion protestors, etc, etc, etc.

When I started in SL there was a spate of talking tummies and pregnancies, but it's much rarer now, like a passing phase. Still, a visit to the Mama Allpa store showed plenty of luvved up couples preparing to take their SL relationship to a next stage by purchasing huds (which can also be seen on the Mama Allpa website) and then -as in RL- attempting, and maybe failing, to get pregnant. Or getting pregnant when they didn't expect to. Just as in RL.

It's something we're actively exploring right now, in order to bring you reports on a whole SL conception/gestation/birth cycle. And I think we've found a couple of volunteers! :)