HOW TO: Sex Blog, Part 1, A Sex Blog Taxonomy (Sexerati. Smart Sex.)
Jan 16th, 2025 by Viviane
You can relax. This is not some “What Sort of Sex Blog Are You?” quiz. For that, please direct your attention to any number of blogs written by people with unnecessary underscores in their usernames over at LiveJournal.
And this is not to hate on LiveJournal. If it weren’t for LiveJournal, sexblogging as we know it just wouldn’t be. (Overcompensating full disclosure: yes, I am LJ user #2501.) LiveJournal was actually the place to find sex in blogs, back when blogging was largely the domain of the people who were developing the blogging tools themselves. Though some of them now admit to also keeping secret blogs, which no doubt are at least a little smuttier than their more obviously branded blogs, very few “a-list bloggers” blog about their actual sex lives (or sex acts, period), and a sex blogger has yet to crack what most people would consider the A-list — likewise, we don’t doubt that those folks up in the Technorati 100 aren’t sex blogging, we just can’t point you to the list.
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