As regular readers know, I'm doing a lot of thinking and writing these days concerning an alternative-reality videogame called Second Life; too much writing, in fact, to be appropriate to publish in my journal each day. So what I'm doing with this supplementary writing is posting it to this site instead, and post-dating the entries, so that they don't show up on the front page. They are then all classified as belonging to the Second Life category, for those fellow intense gamers who want to read each and every word I've now written on the subject.

Here below is an edited transcript of a chat conversation I recently had with K., a friend and reader, also a veteran of both "cybersex" chat and physical sex clubs, who is starting to get fascinated with Second Life as well, just from reading what I have to say about it. This is a rather detailed description of what I'm planning my sex club to be - what it's going to look like, how we're planning on making money, how we're going to take advantage of in-game technology, to combine old-fashioned chat with all kinds of new graphical features. For fellow gamers with a shared interest, I thought I'd post it below, edited slightly to make the flow of the conversation make more sense.

Me: Do you want to hear more details about the sex club? I'm dying to tell someone my ideas, but have a feeling that most people don't care that much. You might enjoy it, though.

K: yes! do tell

Me: Okay, so let's tell it from the perspective of if you were a player yourself.
Let's say you wanted to get back into free chat and finding cyber partners again [which K. used to do when she was younger --JP], but this time with all this cool graphical stuff added, like I was explaining in my journal today.
So I build this club in SL, super cool looking, super hipster.

K: yes

Me: And then you could just have a free account, all the time if you want, if you don't give a shit about owning land and trying to "live in the game," like so many others.
For US$10 a month, then, you could attend my club anytime you want.
Even when you're homeless, you can still carry all your clothes around with you. So get to the club, go into a "changing room" near the front door, change into a sexy little avatar. Or just go naked, with specialized body parts that give you, say, a huge cock or pierced pussy. Or fantastical, like a cock that glows like a rainbow.

K: whoa

Me: And then this is a club for non-sexual people as well, just a super-duper late-night hipster place; imagine a place where swingers and non-swingers are hanging out together, some of them having sex on the couch in front of you, others musicians just sitting around talking about the gig they just got done playing.
So I can build a free object, then, that you can pick up at the front door and wear, if you're specifically looking for sex.
Say, halographic devil horns, that glow like neon when you're wearing them.

K: ha!

Me: And if someone's wearing them, they're looking for sex; and if not, you're not allowed to solicit them for sex via private IM. And if you do, you're kicked out.
And they glow blue if you're looking for a man, yellow for woman, one of each if you're bi.
And blink if you're looking specifically for group stuff.
And also display a halographic fist floating between the horns if you're a dom, or a rose if you're a sub.
You can walk around and literally see an ad for what that person is looking for, floating above their head.
Pretty cool idea, eh?

K: i like the rules and regulations around that
unwanted sexual advances is the worst

Me: Will make for much quicker and more successful hookups, I think.
Faster than, say, AdultFriendFinder.com.

K: reminds me of a fantasy i had the other day about a sex party
thats how i want real life to be

Me: Sure, that's what I'm saying. YOU'D pay ten bucks a month for access to this, right?
If this is what you were looking for, that is?
People are paying, what, $30 a month at AdultFriendFinder.com right now. And not having nearly as good a go at it.

Me: So the majority of the club would be a series of fantastical public rooms...
An ultra-modern room, an indoor pool that actually has a working river winding through it.
People will mostly mix in these rooms. Hire a DJ to actually spin records in RL, so that live requests can be made, piped in through Shoutcast streaming audio.
Sex is allowed in these rooms, if you don't mind other people watching you. If you're bothered by people having sex in front of you, you shouldn't have come to my club in the first place.

[At this point the discussion gets side-tracked into a new topic. We pick up again a few minutes later.]

Me: Okay, so the rest of the sex club story.
So, K., you're there at the club, letting everyone know you're "horny" (heh), walking around the public rooms and getting into little chats.
You're walking around; you're flirting; you're sometimes listening. That famous indie-rock band who played across town earlier are sitting in the corner.
You're intrigued by the people who took the time and money to invest in great, detailed avatars.
Because you know how difficult it is to program good ones, or how expensive they are to buy them.

K: yes

Me: It gives you a natural filter, just like in the real world; to size them up by appearance as well as their chat skills.

K: yes, but with chat skills most important

Me: Right, you get in little chats here and there. You listen in on some private ones too.
Sometimes people are already having sex in public areas, in front of you. They've activated special scripts they have, for marrying the animations of both their characters.
Actually naked and fucking on a couch in the virtual world, if you get my point.

K: yes

Me: So a highly-charged sexual atmosphere as well. (I'm ticking off the reasons why you would pay $10 a month to be a member, as you can probably tell.)

K: yes
its a sex party, and youre organizing it pretty much like how they are in real life. you cover your bases well.

Me: So, okay, you hit it off with someone; they chat great, they have a sexy avatar, they've even agreed to phone you and talk in real time while you're both in-game.
One problem; if you do this in a public room, there are still all these people around you, trying to still initiate conversations with you.
So the whole back half of the club is private booths and cubicles.

K: sure
good

Me: With lockable doors. So that you can tell others that you're busy with private IM chat, and don't want to be disturbed.
No extra charge; simply another benefit of being a member.
Some are decorated with red velvet curtains, a plush couch and magically floating candles.
Some are like ancient Eastern harem tents.
Some are like dirty wank-off booths in the back of porn stores.
That's the beauty of a virutal world; you can build all this shit for free.
So why not have as many as possible?
Plus group play rooms, with no doors, for small stuff that's intimate, but that people can still join.
Plus dungeons! With full-wall body racks, handcuffs, elaborate torture devices.

K: oooo
nice

Me: Exactly!
Have your fun, and feel like part of a very exclusive community.

K: yes

Me: I feel absolutely no guilt over charging people $10 a month to participate in this; because they're easily getting $10 worth of stuff out of it, if I can build it the way I'm imagining these days.
200 people at $10 a month? There are 3,000 people logged in each evening there now.
That would be $20,000 in real revenue for me at the end of a year, believe it or not.

K: thats good

Me: So, that's the idea. I get a hard-on just thinking about attending a club like this, much less running it.

Me: And you know what else will happen; certain people from the same cities will start meeting up there, specifically because they're all in the same cities, and are intrigued by maybe meeting up in the real world.
Boy, that'd be the icing on the cake; $10 a month for a chance to actually get laid.
With some fellow nerdy little videogame hottie.
With their little fuckin' Apple tattoo and whatever.

K: lol
perfect for your purposes

Me: Exactly. I KNOW there's a crowd there like that.

K: yes, there is a crowd out there like that. went to a sex party like that.

Me: Right, and a bunch of them are on SL now. Looking for the virtual equivalent, but not yet finding it.

K: thanks for sharing!

Me: No problem! Glad someone would finally listen!