BLOG NOW CLOSED.

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Start here, and then link on to the various blogs linked therein.

Thanks for reading, but 2ex is now closed forever.

It's real life baby...

I've not been able to devote as much time to this blog as I'd hoped or it needs.

Therefore, I'm stepping down as 'editor', and have returned all permissions to Emmanuelle, should she ever decided to revive it.

The blog will remain in cyberspace, as it may be of some use to new players, but for now please regard the blog has having been discontinued and mothballed.

Jayne

2ex (phase 2)

OK, lets get 'Phase 2' of 2ex properly kicked off with a beautiful lingerie set (St Valentine's Day is coming up!) from Dirty Little Secret.

This set, in red or white, is simply gorgeous, surely enough to get the pulses of your man racing.

I've shown it in both colours available as the February gift (group is free to join), from both front and back. Sexy!!!!!

2ex against Acta (and Sopa and Pipa)

My English is not so good. Forgive me for mistakes. This week I have protested against ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agrreemnt, signed in Tokyo this week by our prime minister, Donald Tusk. I was very young when the communist regime in Poland was destroyed, but my parents grew up in that time, and we know what freedomes are. We wish to preserve them, not to have our freedomes destroyed by a new regime. The internet should be free, not controlled by government. I resist this act and wherever you are in the world you should resist theese attacks on freedomes too. I say no to Acta.

Malgorzata.

email received from Malgorzata, Saturday 26th January, 2012

And so we begin (again)

Lack of posts? Yes. I've been beavering away behind the scenes attempting to build a 'team' with which to operate 2ex.

I'm happy to say that I've managed to get Malgorzata to agree to continue as our lingerie model, providing a link to the old Emmanuelle's blog. I have tried to contact both Emmanuelle herself -the offer remains open for her to act as 'contributing editor'- without success (so far). Vajeena has also responded in the affirmative to contributing, but is currently busy with RL, thus ensuring continued absence for a period of time yet.

I shall still be attempting to contact the other previous contributors over the next few days and weeks, but in all honesty I don't expect to be continuing with the 'sex' pages that both Honey and Rosemary provided. Their writing was great, but it seems that their contributions weren't readily appreciated by readers, and what I've been able to ascertain is that this blog is popular for newbies who've had a need to find free and cheap items to enhance their SL experience. Therefore, in the short term, the aim is to build on this foundation.

The lack of posts between the new year and now can be put down to the fact that we, in SL, have had a sort of post-Christmas lull, particularly in the area of 'sexy' items, but with St. Valentine's Day looming into view, SL's beginning to warm up with regards to 'sexy', so stay tuned.

I'm Jayne..

Hi Everyone, I'm Jayne Chun, the new owner/editor/author of 2EX, having taken over from Emma(nuelle). More posts in the next couple of days from me, but a bit of background information first.

I'm British, 30 later this year, and I've been in SL for about three years. I also run/own another blog, which isn't SL related, so I will not link to it here because a) you're unlikely to be interested in that element of my life and b) it would too readily identify my real life.

What have I done in SL? Shopped, socialised, been a nun (yes, really!), a 1920s cabaret 'singer' (yes, really!) and a couple of other things too, so I've had a fairly varied Second Life so far. I don't want to mess with 'the franchise' too much in the early days, so don't expect too much change in the 2ex style and layout in the short term. I've also already been in touch with some of Emma's old staff to see if they're interested in continuing to contribute, and I shall also contact the remainder over the next 48 hours or so. I've also hopefully got another couple of new faces lined up to add to the mix, and the offer remains open for Emmanuelle to return as a contributor at any point in the future.

One change you will see in the coming days/weeks will be the introduction of more in the way of 'sexy' clothing reviews and previews, something that Emmanuelle didn't do too often. There's a lot of sexy freebies out there, and I shall do what I can to blog some of them for you.

Feel free to contact me via IM or email (it's jaynechun29@gmail.com or jaynechun@hotmail.co.uk). I've already taken the step of making this blog readable on smartphones. I'm not quite sure how you do this myself, but apparently I've made this option available, so you can read 2ex on the bus or in the office.

Talk soon,

Jayne.

Who's that girl?

All will be revealed...soon!

Under New Management

Some changes will occur soon...stay tuned!

Thanks

I've just popped inworld to find a few IMs from readers and friends, and I can't bow out without thanking those who have IMed me with words of kindness and even some encouragement to continue blogging.

The blog will remain here, and a trawl through the previous posts may unearth some live slurls that take you to the items you need. If not, then a bit of sleuthing with names of stores may lead you to the current slurls.

To the reader who asked about my plan, a year ago, to blog about some post-apocalyptic world of semi nudity, free love and living wild (and therefore, outside the materialism of SL), it's not currently a valid proposal. I liked and like the idea, of course, but I lack the time and computer skills to buy and build some wild rain forest type sim packed with suitable poseballs in order to carry this plan out. And yes, I did say that we wouldn't need a home sim, as this SL tribe would be nomads, wandering the grid in search of food and possessions, but following further thought, that idea patently wouldn't work. To have an SL tribe, there would need to be a home sim, and I'm not leeching off someone else's hard work to basically set up camp on their work. So that idea has probably withered on the vine. The idea had merit, of course, since beyond a freebie panther outfit from one of the Gor stores, players in the tribe would have no need of much spending money (or the need to hang about endless, boring shopping malls). I'm afraid the clothes of SL never did it much for me, other than the 'sexy' items used while playing out...um....'social' situations ;) which is why we never blogged much. We could have done, but others did it better, and more regularly. It was never our forte, nor intended to be.

As for my plans? Just having an ordinary SL again, not one dominated by the blog. It'll be fun. SL should always be fun, otherwise there's no point.

And finally (no, really finally), to the reader proposing partnership(!!!!!), um, sorry babes, but no thanks. That is not on my agenda with anyone, ever. We've spoken about twice and you're lost in the concept of projecting something onto a photo of a naked player on the blog's front page. I don't get, and never have been, emotionally attached to other players. Sorry. There's someone out there, better than me, for you.

And with that...I'm signing off. Have a great SL, wherever you are.

Emma

Yer Mawm!

One blog I've been reading recently is Yer Mawm!

What I like about it is that it isn't afraid to show nipples and pubes when dealing with skins, and they've got the inside track on a lot of lingerie stuff that we've not even been aware of. In fact, so much lovely, sexy lingerie it would make Mal's head explode!

I've never understood the prudishness displayed by some bloggers where skins are concerned. Pasties and nipple tapes, panties and shorts. How do you get to to assess a skin where half the skin is covered?

Anyway, I've been in contact with the ladies blogging there, and I thoroughly recommend that you follow the link and bookmark Yer Mawm! What you found here, you'll find, in the main, over there. If you've been a regular reader here, then it's going to supplant this blog in your hearts as your numero uno stop for 'sexy'.

More regular blogging, a wider range of items (all falling into the 'sexy' category) and good writing. I think you should find most of the stuff you need over there. I know that I will be making it a daily halt on my SL time, as I get back to a normal (ha!) SL.

Time to call it a day?

Traffic remains steady on the posts we have put up over the past two years, with old posts as popular as new ones. So, there's obviously some sort of ongoing need (from new players?) for the items we've blogged.

But I feel the blog has run out of steam.

Ella has gone. Honey and Rosemary's more explicit stuff doesn't, surprisingly, attract huge volumes of traffic, and thus I've not posted up any more of their 'adventures'. We've kind of mutually agreed that it's not going anywhere with either of them. Marlene's more interested in raising cash and awareness for breast cancer, and I don't blame her one iota. It's much more important an issue than blogging. Vajeena's MIA until the new year (RL commitments) and that leaves Mal, Diane and myself.

It seems the old gang has been split up, and there's no one to replace vital components in what made SSL, and then 2ex, work. So I've taken an executive decision that, after two years, we're shutting up shop. Like shops and sims in SL, this blog has run its course and it's time to pull the shutters down. I've taken a break from blogging and, quite honestly, I've not missed it that much.

What I'm going to do over the next week is blitz the grid for current slurls, showing you where you can currently get many of the items we've blogged over the past two years (if still available), a sort of handy guide to pubes, see thru clothes, lingerie, etc. And at that point, we're done. :)

Am I giving up on SL? Not on your nelly! I'll be freed to go back to having a SL! Time is always limited, and as this blog grew, my SL presence faded. Time to redress that imbalance, I think.

I'd like to thank all the readers of the blog -and we do have a global presence from San Francisco to Vladivostock- and all those who helped over the two years. Special thanks to Tiny Larkham, who was very supportive, and of course all the staff at 2ex.

Maybe we'll run into each other on the grid. Who knows? In the meantime, Merry Christmas, and have a great 2013 in and out of SL.

Love and best wishes,

Emma.

New posts coming

New posts on Thursday and Friday

Our poll

Not many voters...but it seems you're split between more and less 'x' rated material on the site. I'd hoped for a clear(er) indication of where your priorities lay, and that I wouldn't have to make a casting vote, but I opted to include more 'x' rated stuff as the blog developed, and I guess my casting vote must fall on the side of more 'x' rated stuff in that case. I do have some material by Honey and Rosemary that's worthy of posting, so I guess it's also a case of continuing as we were. Although the poll was indecisive, it does give me an indication of where the blog can continue to go, so emboldened with that knowledge, we can move forward! :)

Thank you to those who voted.

Ems

xxx

Blogger re-vamp

Apologies if the site doesn't like 'quite right' in terms of layout. Blogger have altered the interface and left us with a huge left hand margin down the page(s), so I'll investigate and repair this if and when I can.

I knew this would happen! (pubic hair and see thru shirts)

I knew this would happen! As soon as I announced a brief hiatus from blogging, I've been inundated with items to blog.

Over at the Never Ever and Robbish store, there's a net shirt in the Men's Hunt. I know, I know, I try to avoid hunts, but fortunately the store is small enough to ensure you aren't going to wander aimlessly for ages, and I found the item quite quickly.

After that it was a zoom over to Spangles Jewelry Box at the urging of a 2ex reader, to pick up a L$100 pack containing five pubic hair styles. You know, if this keeps up maybe I can run this as a pubic hair blog after all, lol! A lovely little set that's costing you a mere L$20 per style? You can't go wrong!

Something has changed

I've been doing some overnight thinking about this blog.

I think it's safe to say we've lost, or maybe never had, a real focus on where our interests and desires lay. A 'soft' sexuality? Or 'x' rated stuff?

I'm keenly aware we've served a purpose of sorts, the readership have made it clear we've been invaluable for new players, and for old hands re-aligning their SL's, in areas such as lingerie and pubic hair. But we can't exist as a SL lingerie blog, and even less as a SL pubic hair blog.

The pages read suggest that's an ongoing thing, as new players come on board and search for specific items they require for their avatar. But the fact is that 'sexuality' is, in the context of this board, becoming narrower. People don't read the stuff on homosexuality. Maybe it's time for someone out there to start their own blog focussing on the gay scene in SL, because as sure as hell my audience isn't interested.

And we've polarised opinion with the 'x' rated stuff. Some people like it (a lot) and others loathe the in-your-face approach. Maybe SL isn't ready to grow up to its sexuality yet.

So...I need to re-think this blog, and with it maybe my own SL.

Ella's departure for a new venture, focussed entirely on one aspect of the broad church of SL sexuality -naturism (and Ella would maybe argue that's not even sexual)- makes me think something was lost with her going. I can't replace authors as good as her at the drop of a hat. I can't offer the photographers regular work, nor even Mal if I'm honest, and lingerie is a staple of the SL design world.

I've had a sneak preview of Ella's new venture, too, and I believe it already looks a million times better than this blog, with a much more talented writer at the helm. I'm not bitter about her leaving, I'm glad her talents were recognised by others and she has moved onto something that looks like it will be a great success (and looks wonderful). Diane, too, had kind of moved on, taking commissions for SL photography work here and there, and branching out from the little arena of work we offered her. Marlene, too, has moved on, beginning here as a 'lesbian affairs' writer, before RL kicked in with illness that she overcame, but then re-aligned her RL focus, and now spends a lot of her free time working with a breast cancer charity. We wish her continued good health, and happiness with Lizzie, who recently became her SL partner after some drama en route to finding SL contentment with another. I've had this crew assembled for the best part of two years, but SL and RL moves on. I'm not sure I've the energy to assemble a new crew of writers to fill the gaping holes left by their departures (or part-departures). Vaj's current RL work circumstances up to and over Christmas mean she'll be a rare visitor to SL, let alone to the blogosphere.

As a result of this, I've decided to largely park and rethink this blog between now and Christmas. Of course there'll be the odd Mal post (or one or two from myself, Christmas is a time for a lot of SL sexy lingerie), but for now I'm going to 'disband' the remainder of the crew for six weeks, until the new year. We'll come back with a new design and outlook, I promise, and a more tightly defined focus on where this blog is headed. Currently, my thinking is that we're maybe going down a lingerie/sexy clothes route, and blogs such as these already exist and do it better than we ever could. I won't be taking that route. It's boring, to me, and if that's the future, the 2ex will cease to exist.

'X' rated stuff? You don't seem overly excited by it. It's something I thought would be popular, but I seem to be wrong. Honey and Rosemary's pages aren't being visited that often. Explicit stuff isn't that exciting to the readership. This, surprisingly, doesn't appear to be the future either. Davlos's work has been a breath of fresh air, both to me and to you, but again I can't run a blog dependent on his contributions, although his report from 'the commune' remains a very popular post, and I suspect has led to a lot of visitors to the sim. A success story, certainly, but what I regard as successes are becoming fewer precisely because we aren't sure ourselves where our focus should lie.

I don't know. Maybe the blog has served its purpose and run its course. For now, not 'goodbye' but 'au revoir', and I'll be posting again in the new year, even if it's only to close this blog. As Mal (maybe) or Vaj or whoever provide material, I'll pop it up here, but I won't be contributing much myself.

Ems

Good luck, Ella!

And with her post regarding the Eden blog update, Ella is signing off from 2ex. She isn't leaving SL, or the blogosphere. Instead, the quality of her writing has been recognised elsewhere, and she has been 'headhunted' to edit a new blog. We wish her well, and thank her for her great work here at 2ex over the past months. I guess we need a new naturist correspondent here at 2ex now! :)

I shall update you on Ella's whereabouts whenever her new project finally reaches fruition at the beginning of next month!

Eden naturpolis blog re-designed

Ella Keng (2ex naturist correspondent) From a period when very little seemed to be happening on the naturist front in SL, it seems that there's now quite a bit of activity, and following on from my reporting of Su Casa's new blog, Eden Naturopolis recently appear to have updated their own blog page.

I recommend that you click the link and read all about this beautiful collection of sims.

Revisiting it for a full review of it is another thing on my 'to do' list, so I'll maybe see you there in the coming days.

Vintage Lingerie

The Vintage Fair begins tomorrow, and as readers of this blog will know, we adore vintage and retro stuff here at 2ex, particularly in the lingerie department :)

Malgorzata has already been despatched to poke around what's available, and she'll be back with a report and photos in due course, but while I was IMing her about this, Tiny Larkham's name came up (as usual!). We love Tiny's stuff, and while retro/vintage lingerie was being discussed, Mal took the opportunity to nip over to Tiny's store and poke around.

Yes, I know we've blogged Tiny's stuff before, but as this blog seems to pick up more and new readers all the time, it's absolutely worth my while pointing new readers, who may also be new players, at some of Tiny's freebies and cheapies. As well as the freebies and cheapie items there's a store full of remarkable, elegant, sensual items at full price. For me, it's one of those stores I would need to drive up to in a van, break down the doors while wearing a balaclava (so best to avoid detection on Tiny's CCTV) and make off with her entire stock! I love it.

Two pictures of Mal in a L$0 black lace bra from Tiny's (other colours are also available)

Poll No.1

I've added a poll to the blog, and the first question I wish to ask is if you'd like more 'x' rated material on the blog. The reason I ask is because Honey and Rosemary have been pretty busy of late and Rosemary's, in particular, is red hot!

In discussions with others it seems some prefer a more general, 'soft' sexuality: naturist sims, advice on where to buy pubic hair, lingerie, that sort of stuff, while others really would like something altogether more adult.

The poll ends in a week, so cast your (anonymous) vote. In the meantime I'm holding back some of this incendiary material