NfL: Oh eff, I am naked!

Had an interesting talk with a store owner earlier. I'd spent the last couple of hours working through a shortish hunt and had just started on a second when...

Store Owner: Just gonna warn you by IM. We don't accept any naked people here.
Myf McMahon: sorry, i'll go
Store Owner: Thank you.
Myf McMahon: i was trying to be quick, but you hid your depraved hunt gift well =)
Store Owner: I'm not disturbed in you passing by but just wear panties and a bra

It was a timely reminder. Not that I'm naked, that's hard to forget seeing as how I'm spending an inordinate amount of time staring at my own arse. Rather it was a short, sharp reminder that naked, even in a virtual world, is not normal and is in fact, transgressive. I'd been coasting you see, I'd gone several hours without apparent reaction, the other day I spent over an hour at a fair (and spent way too much money I might add) and no one said boo. I was well on the way to accepting my undressed state as normal, when the fact of the matter is, it's pretty much normal's opposite.

Store Owner: Nah but I mean, people will always tell you to put clothes on or stuff...
Store Owner: It's just how it goes in SL.
Store Owner: Nudity is just kept for sexual places or private stuff.

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Store Owner: Since the whole SL community works on a standard that is : no nudity in public places... you'll always get ejected or talked to if you meet an owner.
Store Owner: Of course you won't meet an owner all the time.
Store Owner: That's just by "chance" if he or she is in his/her store.
Store Owner: You could have been there totally alright if I hadn't been around.
Store Owner: Or if no one had reported cos some do.

We covered more than this, but I think those are the two important points for me to take away from our discussion. I'm going to this more about them though, so I'll probably address them in a later post. For now though, I'll leave them here and maybe one or two of you will have something to add.