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From businessinsider.com:

Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, announced today a range of new measures meant to finally confine Second Life’s sprawling adult community to a virtual "red light district." Among the new rules going into effect soon are:

* All adult goods and services will be confined to a specific "geographic" area in Second Life, meaning (we think) virtual genitalia and bdsm gear will no longer be offered in Second Life’s malls next to the shoes and custom hairstyles.
* Second Life’s search engine will filter out adult-related ads. (Although we imagine people will try to game the system.)
* Access to adult areas will be restricted to users who go through an age verification process. Linden first proposed age verification mid-2007 amidst a "virtual child pornography" scandal, but the program was never really enforced.

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