A year or two ago, I had a phase of looking at a number of sex blogs. What that taught me quite quickly is that there is little less erotic than reading mediocre writing of someone else's erotica, real or imagined. I even set up a sexblog of my own which I soon abandoned, started again,and abandoned again. I soon learnt that reading or writing about sex cannot be done in isolation; it requires a level of pre-existing arousal, and ultimately it fails to satisfy that most basic of physical need.
One by one, and then more quickly, most of the sex blogs I had added to Bloglines were removed, until only one remained:
Pretty Dumb Things NSFW/NSFU-18s. She writes about sex, she writes about her personal experience of sex and related emotions. But there is an extra element there which is missing in most sex blogs. She sets sex in a wider context, makes it something that isn't just a messy private personal thing that happens in bed, but a vital part of modern civilised civic society:
nine relationships even worse than yours
on his royal highness's royal boxers
a pervert's guide to good grammar: part 3, subordination and coordination
3 examples of how sex-blogging can teach me things I didn't know that I didn't know!
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