Insane Sex Maniac? Pot, Kettle, Black
A long time ago, my sometimes co-blogger Aphrodite was experimenting with web tech and she created an innocent and innocuous heart shaped favicon for Eros Blog:
It was never intended to be the final and perfect 16×16 pixel representation of ErosBlog’s deepest philosophies of love, lust, and sex, just a neat and harmless graphical flourish, good enough to “do” until something better turned up. (Any volunteer graphic artists out there who can do sexual magic in 256 pixels?)
So look what the Magic Comment Bunny just had to eat:
i liked this blog, apparently this is my first visit to the webpage and i m already writing on it….basically the blog is about sex in almost all forms ranging from the grose the spiritual and sensual….but one thing i really dislike about this blog is: when you open any web page in your Inetrnet explorer 6, there is a small tab assigned to each page, and it shows a small picture which has been assigned by the page maker. In case of the webpage for this blog a yellow coloured heart appears. Now, this blog is all about sex, and that too of the most exciting and grose forms, then it should not in anyway be associated by love, which is in the most basic way represented by a heart. This blog deals only with sex and desires similar to it, so why the fuck has a picture of a heart been associated with it. This is an insult to love. you wont realize it now, but you would understand when you go through the blogs at this page, they are fucking insane and plainly related to sex without any attachment to love. I dont condemn sex or the articles in this blog, nor am I a kind of person who hates sex, but then , this blog is just about plain sex and should not have a heart associated with it. The fucker who initiated this blog must have used something more represenatative of sex like a penis pic or a pair of tits. Change this thing about your webpage , u insane sex maniac.
Did I mention the bunny had to eat it eleven times? Yup, there were eleven of these identical comments sitting in my moderation cue this morning.
Magic Comment Bunny would like a Rolaids, please.
In all seriousness, it saddens me that there are people in this world who fervently believe that sex “is an insult to love.”
Shorter URL for sharing: https://www.erosblog.com/?p=1935
my favourite part us ‘u insane sex maniac.’
I actually like the heart, as it is evident by the articles and photos you use that OBVIOUSLY sex is not an insult to love.
Well, if you turn the heart icon upside down, one could argue that it does kinda look like boobs. Works for me…
Wow. So someone doesn’t know who ‘Eros’ is! haha.
For what it’s worth, I really like the favicon and all the connotations it has. If you have a specific request I’d be happy to icon it for you, but I think the heart really works.
Somebody has some serious issues.
“u insane sex maniac” – you say that like it’s a bad thing!
In fact, I think Bacchus being a sex maniac is one of the many reasons I fell in love with the man. Yeah, that’s right I said “love!” :-)
I heart you too, m’love. ;-)
I like seeing the heart on my IE tabs, and to be honest, the magic bunny had enough of a tirade there that I wonder if there was some magic mushrooms mixed in with the magic bunny.
I think the heart favicon is sweet, whimsical, and friendly, much like erosblog itself. Vintage porn, Naked Jen, anime porn, sexu-politcal commentary – what’s not to love?
Sure, there’s the harder, edgier stuff too, but that’s fine.
I’d much sooner take my chances with the “grose” writing of an “insane sex maniac” than the inarticulate ranting of a semi-literate magic comment bunny!
Keep the heart, and keep up the great work!
Just to clarify, the magic comment bunny is a whimsical construct representing the powers of moderation. I’m not sure why people are confusing the bunny with the ranting commenter in this post.
Failure to clicky the linky, or to scroll down one post?
Failure to scroll down a post *and* failure in the clicky department in my case – laziness at it’s finest!
I still love you (and the favicon) far more than the ranty (and illiterate) commenter OR any magic comment bunny.
The favicon is already what it should be, simple, evocative and immediate. If someone can improve on it, I’m all for it, but I won’t be holding my breath. What else would say love, sex, and lust? Maybe a tiny cupid silhouette, but that seem a bit to cutesy and effiminite. Besides at 256 pixels it may be hard to see. Besides being a bit crude, a mere “penis” or “pair of tits” seems to leave out the love side…
I like the heart and how cute and hand-drawn it looks but the yellow is kind of obnoxious and eye-straining. Maybe a pink or dark red heart?
I like the heart.
I like it yellow. It’s a happy colour, which ties in well with the positive attitude of the site.
It’s simple and easily recognisable, cute and quirky in its asymmetry.
If it aint broke, don’t fix it.
(I’m also slightly scared by the vehemence of the original commenter, but maybe they were just having a bad day and needed a hug.)
Of all the things here on this blog (like the “grose” stuff) it’s the whimsical, crooked little heart that offends the commenter.
I find that encouraging really. We’re all okay with sex. Good deal.
What is love anyways? Seriously, I have no clue. There are plenty of examples but no clear definition. I for one think it’s certifiably insane to completely separate love and sex.
where do we email the entries to?
is it a contest?
i just want to see more interesting sexual stuff…
i never thought this was an insane maniacle sex place to be honest… i mean come on when was the last time that REAL, HARD CORE was actually shown on the website… it is just a nice assortment of everything to do with sex and love.
and if sex doesn’t stem from love where does it come from?
The comment was especially amusing to me as I have a tattoo depicting a small heart with a large arrow pointing toward the heart’s “cleavage.” For my partner and I, it signifies hearts and love, but also is a private tribute to our love of ass-fucking. (upside down heart also resembles tushie.)
Of course, during disagreements, it also signifies pain in ass ;) It’s SO versatile!
well, the heart it’s kinda uneven, so you might say it’s a graphic representation of twisted love.
Well to be precise, the heart was originally a fertility symbol, albeit turned upside down, which represented the female buttocks, which was of course the view most commonly seen by the ancients who practiced primarily rear entry. So the heart in its purest form denotes intercourse … which always makes me chuckle when I see bumperstickers that say I heart my poodle.
I have been reading this blog for years…….to have erosblog without the heart, would be “heart breaking” pardon the pun!
man…I’d hate to be that guy’s/girl’s significant other. their sex life must be booooooooring.
other than the obvious craziness that person spewed about this only being about sex and never about love or anything having to do with love, since when to penises and breasts only mean sex?
One thing nobody has pointed out – you get tabs in IE 7, not six. So not only is the original commenter illiterate, hypocritical and narrow-minded, they’re also a luddite.
And, for the record, I too like the heart. I like its lovely yellow centre and red outline. Red (as in flowers) is for lust, yellow is for love. So the colours work. I also like the hand-drawn quality of it, it reflects the mostly amateur, slightly underground vibe of ErosBlog.
And Bacchus, we love you even if you are a sex maniac!