These days I've been shutting my laptop like most people shut a door they didn't think they were going to open in the first place.
My poor little Macbook, once a door to music, iChat, cartoons, emails and musings, has also had it's gateway to stuff I wouldn't think about advertising.
Yes, the blogging.
Why the blogging?
And it's not only me. Yeah, let's go there.
What is it about the blogging...so free even?
Why can people get so personal with their blogs?
Why do they blog about the sex?
We already know that life blogging has been around for the better part of a decade (or more, depending on how you’re counting).
By extension, so has sex life blogging (You literate pervs!). As the medium has evolved and changed, as it’s morphed and mutated and mainstreamed, it’s effected countless lives:
For better and for worse.
Relationships have been strengthened, relationships have been destroyed; communities have been built and lives have been turned upside down.
I know of a number of people who've even made a living out of it, but that again is a different story (unless you throw it in with the whole life thing)
"And through it all, one has to wonder: why do we sex blog?"
Oh sure one could just as easily ask why anyone blogs about their personal life, period.
BUT, sex is such a loaded and taboo topic, it adds an extra layer of complication to that bloggy equation.
So why? Why?
I'm waiting for some answers. Actually I'm gonna grab a little something to eat, but maybe I'll get some food for thought.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Why the blogging?
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Well, sex is probably one topic that almost everyone thinks about several times a day and it's a very powerful thing. I have another theory too, though. I made an observation some years ago that seems to explain a lot about human behavior, I observed that whenever someone is doing something that is naughty or socially frowned-upon they seem to like recruiting as many other people into the activity as possible. Not necessarily as mutual participants (in the case of naughtiness) but just as others who practice a particular activity. It seems to create a feeling of security or fellowship that reinforces that the activity isn't as unusual or odd as society would have one believe. I'm sorry, I feel like I'm babbling. Am I at all lucid?
Hmm. Lots to say in response to this.
First, I wouldn't really consider this a sex blog. Yes, there is some sexual stuff, but thus far, PG-13 at most, despite the blogs origins on XTube. Not a complaint, by the way. There are plenty of sex blogs out there, most of them not very good.
So why do people blog? If you ever figure out, I would like to hear it. But a couple of ideas (and who knows whether any of them are right). First, I think blogs can be a manifestation of creativity. Occasionally one runs across a blog with just wonderful observations and writing. Yours is new so time will tell how it plays out, but thus far, yours fits that description. Fun observations about everyday life. Plus you seem to have a knack for working in visuals.
Second, I think sometimes (but not always) bloggers have something to say that is beyond what they want to talk about with people they know. Blogging can give those people a forum, at least as long as they are not found out.
Third, I think bloggers sometimes do enjoy the interactions they have with their readers.
And fourth (and related to the third), everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame.
But I don't blog, and I may be completely full of it. So again, would be curious to hear why you are doing it, once you figure it out.
Hey thanks guys, these comments are great. Excellent feedback.
I'm not sure what I'm going to get out of the blogging, but as far as everything else, I think you two pretty much nailed it.
@injunear15, you're totally lucid. A lot more lucid than I'll ever be, and sometimes I have all the lamps on in the house.
@coralifan Maybe I should put a PG13 warning on my page :)
Should you ever change your mind, you should blog. I'd read it.
My own blog? Maybe I could call it "The Jaded Husband Who Would Like a GF* on the Side Is Blogging" (*or something else interesting). Except that I don't actually have anything on the side. Meaning that all that would leave me to write about would be tedious stuff at work and not so interesting stuff at home -- and therefore I would have no readers. So not sure it would be such a good idea. For now, I think it would probably be better just to remain a reader/commenter.
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