The following pics are not reader's pics, but I figured I'd throw them in with this article for the hell of it.

I'm a fan of the progress of design in SL, but only when it is for the better. Lately, sculpted feet have been all the rage, for that one in a million chance that someone is going to zoom in on your toes. Apparently, many people feel it is more important to have perfectly sculpted toes than a perfectly matched skin tone. Even if you match your prim body parts perfectly when you are getting dressed, as soon as the SL sun changes position, the prim parts are going to look different. Anything colored inworld will change appearance based on the time of the SL day.

First, it was prim penises. Then, prim feet. Now, the latest thing (but probably came before prim feet) are prim boobs. I could probably go on and on about all the "egad" going on in the following pic, but I'll pass on that, since a pic is worth a lot of expletives.

The following pic I took when exploring a Japanese shopping sim--I say Japanese because most of the designers seem to be Japanese. I think a lot of the creators from Japan are extremely talented and creative, but I often "wtf are they thinking" when I look at some of their things (and I mean things as in their creations for sale, and not their genitalia, although I would probably have the same sentiment if I were looking at their genitalia, based on what I have heard about......oh, nevermind).

I understand that maybe a lot of Japanese don't really have "conversational English", meaning they have never really spoken it regularly enough with native English speakers to be familiar with stuff like slang and cliches. Sometimes, I wish there was a service for Japanese creators, something like, "Name your shit right", or "American names that aren't stupid for Japanese products"--something like that, but probably more succinct.

This was taken at a store called Little Bird Skin. Here in my part of the world, some people would say that "bird" is a slang term for "penis", so Little Bird Skin might not really be a good name for a man's skin shop, although it is an Asian male skin store, so the name might actually be appropriate. I understand that the creator has named his skins after the Zodiac--as in the Western astrological science, so names like Leo skin, Taurus skin, Libra skin were to be expected. In this case, I think he should have skipped "Cancer skin", and probably the "Cancer shape", also. Maybe they are really made to resemble the RL illness, and weren't named after the Zodiac sign, so anyone who is planning on faking their RL death due to cancer in order to abscond with the money advertisers invested in their SL magazines and start a new SLife under a new identity might be interested in this Cancer skin and shape.