Q. The online virtual reality Instant Message game Second Life ... all the characters on that game are very attractive and with good bodies ... why?
A. I think you first need to define your idea of attractive. I'm in Second Life and by no means think that everyone is attractive - in fact, many of the avatars where people have obviously tried to make an avatar look alluring look - to my mind - rather dreadful.
There are several common things I see in avatar design in Second Life that make me shake my head with disbelief.
In female design these are:
Huge breasts
Tiny waist
Huge head
Huge eyes
Massive lips
Tiny, upturned nose
Very pointy chin
Scantilly clad and /or see-thru clothes
In male avatars:
Muscles (especially on chest and arms) set to 100
Height set to maximum
Tiny little head (usually bald for some strange reason)
Rediculous leg muscles
No upper body clothing and enough tattoos to make the people of Miami Ink say 'ENOUGH!'
Now, some of these problems stem from the limits of the Change Appearance tool in SL. I have tried to make male body shapes for friends and I am never satisfied with the end results.
As far as good-looking female shapes go, well ... it is an art and it requires some honesty. That whole tiny waist and huge boobs thing looks so stupid in Second Life. If you are willing to lose the extremes and allow a few realistic touches, such and some body fat for balance and realistic-sized boobs - you can end up with a naturally attractive look on an avatar. The nose doesn't need to be upturned and tiny to be attractive - in fact the tiny ose, huge lips and eyes and pointy chin lookis like bad plastic surgury.
I get complemented on all my avatars looks and choices of clothes - even if I'm decidedly non-human at the time with that avtar - say a fairy, vampire, zombie, alien, cyberpunk or whatever I choose to be that day.
My opinion on the huge breasts or big muscles? These are played by people who are probably insecure in real life and they create these avatars of extremes and flirt about with them because it's not something that happens to them in real life. Certainly in my case, I DON'T get hit on much in real life. My SL avatars are markedly more attractive than real me, but they are very different from me in other ways. Japanese avatars, black avatars, vampire avatars, etc. When someone complements me about my avatars I see it as recognition of my skill in creating realistic body shapes and conformation that my choices of skins, hair, clothes, shoes and accessories are good ones. I don't reside in SL for relationships or sex, so my avies are only good-looking for my benefit. My avatars are very rarely scanitlly clad (bikinis are fine on SL beaches) and more often than not, they wear long pants and a top, or sometimes sweaters, so it's not a flash of bare (pixilated) flesh that is turning heads. The best and least suggestive complements seem to come from French guys. The least complementary comments seem to come from both men and women residing in the Deep South of the USA who tell me my avies' boobs and butt need to be much bigger.
Now there is something that needs to be considered about why there are so many girl avies in SL with the huge boobs, eyes, mouth and tiny noses. Many are played by guys. Me and my partner play a game in SL called 'Spot the Ladyboy'. First sign is the afore-mentioned boobs, eyes, lips and stuff. Next is the clothes - a point for each. A tiny dress or skirt and mini top with all of this is the next sign and that's another point. If the top shows nipples either poking out the top or bottom or is see-thru, it's one more point in favour of being a guy as a girl. Stockings with a tiny, weeny summer outfit (especialy ones that don't match the outfit) are another of our sure signs and there's another point. And really high stilettos are another. All of these things together are usually idicitive of a guy playing his dream girl. Now, if 'she' claims to be gay and then is willing to take her clothes off at the slightest excuse that's 1 point and 2 points respectively. If we can total more than 10 points we are 100% certain it's a guy. Now, we have been surprised by this - we've actually been wrong a couple of times - but invariably, we are right. One of my gay friends in SL has managed to score a perfect 4 for 4 in 'girlfriends' in SL - every one of her SL girlfriends turned out to be a guy playing a girl. Now in the case of one, he was very convincing because he played a chubby, well-built girl who wasn't so pretty. I've also met some nicely made girl avies who turned out to be guys and a couple of very handsome (not overly muscular) guys who turned out to be played by girls.
It is certainly true that there are some very nicely made S avatars in SL and all I can say is, 'Well why not?'. We all want to be beautiful and in SL we can as long as we remember that the avatar is an illusion. She's no worse than Lara Croft and he's no worse than Tidus or Sephiroth from the Final Fantasy games. These are game characters - nothing more. An avatar should look like you want to feel in SL, or should suit the purpose you use the for in SL. In the case of some people that I know from real live who are in SL, the real versions of them are more beautiful than their SL avatars will ever be. In one I can think of, the person behind the avatar is badly deformed in real life and her SL avatar (which is not remarkably pretty) is her being what she can't be in real life.
The other side of the coin is that there are many avatars who aren't made to look like supermodels or NFL footballers who forgot to take their armour off - some are fat, some are short, some are ugly, some are old, some are in wheelchairs. It comes down to how you want to 'play' SL.
I suggest you look at some of the 'beautiful' avatars again and you will see that around 70% are not terribly unique and on closer inspection, not as pretty as you may think.
Certainly, the majority of 'attractive' avatars - especially the ones that dress in a scanty manner the like of which like no normal person would do in real life - are like that for the sole purpose of attracting someone sexually or romantically. Nothing wrong with that I guess, but I do wish people wouldn't always try to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Certainly, if you want a relationship and hope for it to transfer to real life, there needs to be an understanding of the person behind the avatar, rather than losing oneself in the illusion of the attractive avie.
And regarding the thing I said about avatars looking like they fit their purpose, take a look at my RPG vampire avie, which someone took a picture of and posted on Flickr. She developed into this look to serve the sole purpose of being an alluring vampire (although I only play her in non-sexually orientated RP regions). Yes, the nose is fairly small because she's supposed to be Japanese, but you can also see she has some fat under her chin, her lower cheeks aren't all sucked out like a skeleton and I didn't resort to the usual sky-high cheekbones. What you can't see from this picture is that she has quite small breasts and has enough bodyfat to not give her a rediculous hour-glass figure. She serves the purpose for which she is intended and with good role-playing and me also clarifying the situation as soon as someone makes inappropriate hints, people know she's not there for sexual favours or relationships.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/survivor_chele/2637902795/
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