Beauty contests

If you tp over to the Playmates Mansion, you can pick up free copies of the readable, inworld Playmates Magazine, it's sister (brother?) magazine Boy Toy, or enter their model contests. If you join their group (also free) you'll get the magazine sent out as a group notice each month.

I've subscribed for a long time now. Not that I'm drooling over the Playmates in a sexual manner, you understand, but because the whole concept appeals to me, and because it's a very good idea in its totality.

You can enter the contest, be a playmate of the month, feature in their end of year calendar (I think!) and feature in their hall of fame.

Now...what do we think about these sort of contests? In the developed world, beauty contests are now, post-feminism, considered passe and exploitative. As a result, the Miss World and Miss Universe contests now take place beyond 'the developed world', and last week (in the real world) an Angolan girl, Leila Lopes, was the first African to be crowned Miss Universe. And where does she make a lot of headlines? That's right, in 'the developed world'. Hypocrisy, how are you?

For many, such contests are a means of escape from an existence to a life. The money to be made, and the fame, and the subsequent career, are better than what the girl may have now, so who is anyone to criticise? The feminists? Oh, grow up. If a girl can better herself through her beauty, there's nothing wrong with that, and the finger-wagging from the dungaree wearing feminists are, often, thinly disguised jealousy.

Our friends at the skin store First Lady seem to agree with the idea that beautiful is beautiful, because within a day of Leila being crowned Miss Universe, they had a gorgeous Leila Lopes skin available (see pix). Stunningly gorgeous and accurate it is too.

SL is the land of the beautiful people, and as such, even in a post-feminist world, there's clearly a realignment of what constitutes politically correct thinking in the real world. Lots of SL girls aspire to be Playmate of the Month, and why not? Some guys also aspire to be eye candy, and why not? Although, on the wall, they're a little more shy about showing us their goodies, lol.

I want to follow this up some more. I'll be writing to the owners of Playmates for some background to the project (of which I wholeheartedly approve), and also a couple of the contestants of both male and female contests in order to get their input as to their motivations.

(top to bottom: Leila Lopes being crowned, the Leila Lopes skin at First Lady, a trio of past Playmates at the Playmates Mansion Wall of Fame, and a current contestant in the Boy Toy contest in a posing pouch that is getting me all hot and bothered each time I look at him, lol)