HOW TO: Sex Blog (Introduction) (Sexerati. Smart Sex.)
Jan 4th, 2025 by Viviane
Blogging sex is not just about blogging sex.
The dirty little secret of so-called “sex bloggers” is that most of us don’t just write about sex. We may have other blogs, or we may even dare to explore additional topics in our “sex blogs” as we choose to. The passion and creativity that drives us to blog sex requires a skill that will take all the mad excitement we’ve got as a community of social media makers and push us hard to manifest that enthusiasm — and on a regular basis — nearly to its limit. Whether or not we write about actual sex we might actually be having at the actual time of our blogging (or, maybe, hopefully, shortly thereafter — though let’s have a moment of silence for the concept of liveblogging sex), our personal sex lives are going to be a part of our sex blogging. Even the most “professional,” seemingly non-personal sex blog is personal. One need only read between the lines…
… and some of your readers and lovers will, in fact, be reading between the lines — and here is where this approach to sex blogging gets interesting.
The old media take on sex blogging is that a sex blog is just a new form of erotic confessional, which, when you define sex blogging only in relationship to other sex writing, loses critical utility as a way of framing how sex is blogged within the context of social media. That so many sex blogs are written significantly ex post facto (years, even) is just a hint at this fundamental problem in writing sex in any form: what we blog about sex, even after the fact, reverberates back into our current sex lives. (more…)
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A fascinating read, though the dirty little secret is how many bloggers are “enhancing” reality, and the disconnect between reality and fantasy.