Our group has auctions for group members, but it’s focused mostly on group activities, no notecards to fill out, people volunteer whatever they want… whether it’s an hour of building training, a free consultation/service, four hours of a wild cam fuck fest, or just a day of whatever the buyer wants from the auctionee….

I’d not be able to give myself for a full day… firstly and most importantly, my darling Dom would absolutely forbid it. He doesn’t mind giving me up for an hour to someone for private fun, but there’s no way he’d let someone else have me for that long. Secondly, who knows who might get you, it could be some troglodyte that just makes those 24 hours incredibly painful (and I’m not talking spanks, pinches, and bites…)… but boredom.

*Goes EEEEP and runs from the boredom*

I do have alts but they pretty much just collect dust. I don’t have time to do anything with them other than store inventory items

I’m so glad I found your blog. It’s fabulous reading.

Cheers!

A clever idea in a cause-related-marketing-sort-of-a-way, but much* easier for you to donate a photo session for auction or, even better, directly to the work and people you believe in. Which I suspect you already do.

I think I prefer other ways to raise money in SL. Take our friend Hung Runningbear, who is training for this weekend’s Century ride for AIDs services in his neck of the FL woods. He’s asked his friends to donate Lindens through him or dollars directly at http://www.firstgiving.com/erinmarteal.

More on that here: http://www.aidsrideforlife.org/

Ignore peer pressure and do what’s right for you. If you want to support the charity (and that’s always a reasonable thing to do) then choose a way that you’re happy to give time, money and so forth. Heck, cough up some RL cash to them and call it done - it’s really low time intensity after all. Put all of Rouge on “pay to enter” for a weekend and donate all the proceeds to the charity - and tell people why. There are lots of low impact on your time ways to do this.

If you want the ego-boost and can afford it, plant an alt in the audience, wait for “going twice” and outbid the highest bidder - you get all the ego massage of the auction if you want that and you only owe yourself the time - so use it to do what you want!

Thankfully I’m not part of the in-crowd and haven’t been asked. But even if it was an charity that I really support I wouldn’t go for it. Charity auctions might be fun, for some, but if I want to support the charity I won’t do it through slavery, even temporary slavery for a good cause.

Do what you feel is right. Some people might be rude about you, but stuff ‘em. Shakespeare had a good bit of advice for this situation: “To thine own self be true” so go out there, do what you think is right, and most people will stand by your choice whatever it is. If they don’t, it’s their loss, not your fault.

Being cool, fun-loving, and sexy doesn’t require relinquishing all rights to your time and your body. Quite the contrary…