ZOMG b00biez! ... Or not

[unixronin]

The FTC says kids can find adult content in virtual worlds.  You know, like Second Life.  And as we all know, God forbid our delicate, emotionally-fragile kids should see a low-detail, poorly-animated boob on a cartoonish avatar.

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[hugh_mannity]

I play Runescape (oh, shush! yes, it's a kid's game. So bite me!). Although it's aimed at teens and supposedly requires a minimum age of 13, a lot of younger kids than that play.

Needless to say, it was the teens and not the adults who play, who discovered that if you have one player character standing *here* and doing *this* action, and a second player character *here* doing this other action it looks as if they're having (clothed) sex.

At that age (early puberty) EVERYTHING has sexual content. My son's classmates took to calling puberty "cheese" for reasons that were never explained. Gave a whole new thrust to the slogan "behold the power of cheese!". I got some wonderful embarrassed eye rolling out of that one :D

Kids are not pure innocent little angels until they reach the age of consent or get married at which point they miraculously know everything they need to know about sex without you having to tell them. They're grubby-minded little horrors who're going to experiment at every opportunity.

[unixronin]

Yes, but there are people to whom details of reality like that one are deeply, intensely threatening.