What Should ErosBlog Be Linking To?
Hey everybody, I’ve been conscious for a long time that the ErosBlog blogroll is getting a little bit stale. Although sex blogs aren’t quite the phenomenon they were five years ago, I know there must be all sorts of sexy sites out there that I’d link to if I only knew about them.
So, I’ve decided to solicit reader suggestions. What should I be linking to, in your opinion?
Here’s how I’m going to do this. Please suggest links in the comments. All I ask is that you provide a short description of the link and/or reason why you think it belongs on the ErosBlog sidebar. Please don’t just say what your suggested site is; remember to say why it is special or unique or likely to be of particular interest. A sentence or two is sufficient: “This is an astonishingly-comprehensive blog about latex fetish outfits” or “The best babe blog out there with a great focus on girls with natural assets” would be fine. (Yes, it’s OK to suggest your own site as long as the description is descriptive and free of marketing-speak.)
Bear in mind that comments with links all go into moderation, so your suggestions won’t appear immediately. I expect to clear most of your suggestions through moderation whether or not I decide to add the suggested link to the sidebar, but of course l reserve the right to moderate these suggestions just as I do all other comments.
Here is a short list of things that I look for in a persistent ErosBlog link, in no particular order:
- Sex-positivity (no sneering about fetishes and sex practices)
- Longevity (sites that have been active for years and look likely to remain active)
- Sheer size (sites with lots of content and persistent archives win out over ephemeral sites and one-joke gimmick sites)
- Self-hosting (sites that are on their own domain and hosting plan and not on Blogger, LJ, FaceBook, or another unreliable corporate free host that could pull the plug at any moment without recourse)
- Originality and voice (sites that offer something unique, or have a creative voice of some sort, rather than yet-another-endless-stream of randomly-assembled porn)
- Community (sites that link out to other sites are preferred over cul de sac sites who rarely link to anybody else)
This should be fun, and might prove to be an epic comment thread. Suggest away!
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I like this woman’s site. She is a professional escort and posts a lot of interesting stories and some great pictures. Check her out:
http://www.real....com/
My new sex-ed site, of course.
:)
Great idea, Bacchus!
OMG, and after four years of making my own hyperlinks I still can’t do it right. I suck! :)
I fixed it for you — and having a link in it, it was stuck in moderation anyway, so if you hadn’t told off on yourself, nobody would ever have known! ;-)
SSS has been around for 3 yrs (self-published for almost 1 yr)and we still manage a couple of posts/week. There’s some fiction, some HNT’s, some rants about life love and the universe. Mostly though it’s an exploration of our sexuality…what it means to be a cross-dressing sissy (me) and a Goddess (♀)
http://sweatsho...y.com
Cheers
Erosblog is at the top of my sexlinks folder on my bookmarks, and I habitually use you as my jumping off point. So:
a) you already do a great job
b) yes, there are a number of old, obsolete, and maybe just a bit stale links here.
c) still my choice of a jumping off spot.
I already previewed the new link here in the comments above, and give it 2 thumbs up, if it matters.
I’m amazed you don’t have Tom Allen’s The Edge of Vanilla already. He’s linked to you, and is one of the best thinking man’s chastity sites out there. He’s not paying me to say that, sadly.
One of the blogs you removed from this page “under his hand” is one I follow weekly, and which is current and regularly updated. Will you consider putting that one back?
http://underhis....com/
This one has naked pictures, but isn’t really a “blog” any much more than the spanking or bondage blogs are. Regardless, if you don’t know about it, I’m thinking that you should, Bacchus:
http://extragoo....net/
Sorry for posting multiple times, I only intended to do one, but can’t edit my original post.
I don’t mind multiple suggestions, so no worries there, as long as each one is explained/described. But fuzzy, both of your suggestions are already in the sidebar, and in the case of Good Shit, it’s been there as long as this blog has existed, or very nearly so…
Although http://toywithm...e.com started out as a toy review site, it has evolved into a humor site that deals with sexuality. 5 days a week we post politically incorrect, sassy and hilarious writings.
Our tag line is “I Have A Vagina And I’m Not Afraid To Use It.”
What about suicidegirls.com? If you like tats and attitude along with an active community, they’re a good spot to visit.
The top link Tiny Nibbles (http://www.tiny....com/) in your blog roll is one of my all time favorite, add yours (http://www.eros...g.com) and you have, my list of sex blogs that I check almost daily. Anything else I’ve got will not meet the criteria you set.
Your doing a great job, and I thank you for all you have shared with us.
Oh gosh I only just found this one and many of those that I have seen are just full of ads, so, anything with great unique content I suppose.
I quite like http://girlwith....com/
although it’s only updated about once a month or so.
well color me crazy. I don’t see either one in the sidebar here on my monitor, today. I see “15 sex blogs” with 15 that aren’t either of them, and “random old post”, “archives” “sexy images” (5 listings), and “other sexy links (5 listings). On the right I see 5 ads, and that’s it, for now. What am I missing?
Fuzzy,
Bacchus has very wisely made different sidebars appear on the main page and on single-post pages. Extra Good Shit only shows up on the main page.
I know there’s a Very Good Reason for doing this but I can’t remember exactly what it is?
How about CarnalNation? (carnalnation.com)Very sex-positive and no tired reposted pics of naked models, lol. From their site: “CARNALNATION provides comprehensive coverage of entertainment for grown-ups……We compile event listings; we publish original and incisive content; and we provide insightful commentary on a range of related topics from health to fashion to the latest toys. ”
Or perhaps my blog? I post mostly about exhibitionism/voyeursim or general sexuality through erotic fiction, erotic real stories about me, photos of me, etc. Been around over a year, I’m self-hosted and post a few times a week.
My last suggestion is Pleasurists.com. While some bloggers think that sex toy reviewing is getting tired and stale (and a lot of reviews are) I still think it’s important for consumers to easily find honest reviews of toys before they drop a hundred bucks or more. It’s why I started reviewing toys.
Some good suggestions there, thanks. AAG has it right, fuzzy; the sidebars on individual posts are stripped-down versions of the main front page link list. A few years ago Google started dumping huge penalties on sites with lots of the same links on every page of the site, so I had to strip down the inside sidebars to bare essentials.
That said, Haylee’s suggestion is another long-time link, and that one is on the inside pages as well. ;-)
I’d like to recommend my blog, Diary of a Kinky Librarian. It’s been around for over 2 and a half years (and I had a sex blog prior to that for over a year). I talk about bdsm mainly – the experience of being in my first D/s relationship. I also try to focus on sex-positivity, and I do some reviews but try very hard not to let the reviews take over. I post a few times a week typically.
And hey, who isn’t hot for librarians? ;-)
Fleshbot.com and highonsex.blogspot.com
This is gonna sound trite and boring, but I don’t think you need further links. Your blog is thoughtful, informative and provocative and is sexy enough to be stand-alone. The format as it is, works.
You’ve linked Greta Christina in the past, and I was a little surprised not to see her on your blorgle. I’ve been more impressed with her writing about sexuality than anybody else’s I’ve seen. She’s currently on an atheism kick that I find less interesting, but she’s wicked smaht and very clear-sighted.
My friend Delilah is doing some damn fine stuff these days, now that she’s gotten serious about the advice column thing.
I don’t know why Melvin Moten isn’t more famous. His erotic photos are some of the best I’ve ever seen.
Louise, I appreciate the compliment, but I still think there’s a chance there are wonderful sites out there that I would want to be linking to, if I only knew about them.
http://www.kink...e.com
A well-written blog about one woman’s kinky daily life adventures, complete with photos and videos the author finds amusing. Bonus: Tit Shot Tuesday – a weekly treat where the author posts photos of herself (minus her face) in various states of undress
She also links to you : )
@Vinnie
Oh hell! I will totally support a link to your stories –I found them well-written, and *fun!* when I discovered them the other day.
Ooo, now there’s a lovely idea Bacchus…how about a blog roll for just the written smut. I mean, not that I spend FAR too much of my time slacking around on here or anything already, or nothin’…>.>
@Dangerous Lilly
You are welcome to post at your site as often as humanly possible, oh please, oh please! I spent quite a useful hour this afternoon reading stories.
@ToyWithMe
And five days a week, you will have a new reader, greedily laughing her ass off at what she finds. You guys are quite hilarious! Please stop linking to toys I can’t afford though. :(
@Bacchus
…honestly, I get most of my sex blog roll through you, so I’ve not much to recommend. Here, Good Shit, Domai…about the only thing I check regularly that I haven’t ever seen linked through you is the Other Half-Naked Thursday ((http://hntanon.....com/)) Well worth looking at, each Thursday, certainly.
This is the grandest thread ever, though.
I love Easily Aroused Blog – Indecent reflections of an over-sexed englishman (http://www.easi...o.uk/) Deliciously well written erotica, with links to his tumblr site ‘Things to excite the easily aroused’ – very tasteful
and it’s naughtier counterpart ‘Substratum’
I agree with Billus above – I can’t believe that you haven’t linked to Tom Allen’s blog The Edge of Vanilla. It’s not specifically a sex blog, but he does write about… oh, hell, I don’t have much experience in being a sock puppet. Marriage and sexuality, relationships, orgasm denial, chastity devices, kink in general, odd sex news, and my occasional HNT to tittilate those who care to look at hairy, 50 year old men.
Also, you might consider adding a section for some eye candy, like Male Submission Art (http://malesubm...t.com) and Art or Porn (http://art-or-p...r.com). Mostly Straight (http://mostlyst...r.com) has some nice photos for women who have a bit of kink.
Tom, you made me laugh whilst failing at sock puppetry. ;-)
Everybody: I made the mistake (although I could disguise it as a clever scheme) of starting this thread during a particularly busy time for me, so it will probably take me several days before I can check out all of these awesome suggestions and incorporate some of them into my linklists.
http://sexandsc...blog/ is an educational blog written by a woman working in the sex industry. SexandScience is a new blog, but a lot of Sophie’s old blog is still accessible to see what she’s all about at http://sextech....main/
http://malesubm...t.com
I second the vote for this. Excellent male eye-candy.
I don’t know if this is what you are looking for at all. But it is a fun read. Not all sex which weirdly enough I can appreciate.
http://i-know-i...t.net
I would like to recommend The Over-Educated Nympho.
Written under the pen name Vix, this blog was started back in June of 2005. Vix writes about her life as she battles depression and ADHD while trying to find a balance between her day job and her desire to be a full time writer, all the while trying to find the right man, within her preferred relationship ideal, to provide her get the sex she needs.
There are hundreds of really well written posts, with many comments and responses, ranging from well written sexcapades to brutally honest, open and revealing insights into her life.
I’ll second a vote for http://www.kink...e.com. She’s hawt.
Atlantabondage.com, too. He links to you as well. He finds some really amazing fetish photos.
http://www.zill...com/- is one of my favorites. She posts personal photos and stories, other sex/spanking/fetish photos and stories. She’s da bomb.
How about http://jphotobo...k.com which bills itself as Cute Japanese and Asian Cosplay Idols? Not a lot of text, just lots of photos of Japanese AV/gravure idols, and it updates fairly regularly, at least a few times a week.
I would like to suggest Sex Secrets – one of the best sources of sex tips and sex news on the internet. Sex Secrets currently has 998 posts, including 70 original articles. At the time it moved from WordPress.com to its own domain 3 months ago, it was ranked 10th in the “Sex” category, according to Blog Rank.
The Library Vixen (http://libraryv....com/) is a work of art. She describes her sexual passions in vivid prose, and the photos are beautiful. Her website is updated daily. She gets me sweating.
Ok, I’m going to come out of my shell and pimp my blog a little bit… I’ve been writing for over three years on just about everything – sex, bdsm, love, kids, life, and work – and plan to keep doing it for quite a while. I’ve enjoyed the traffic you’ve sent my way in the past and would like to stay on your list.
It’s good if you like it is a great tumblr blog of interesting sex pics with no particular fetish in mind. Just creative porn. Breaks a couple of your guide lines, but I like it.
http://ebompraq....com/
I’d like to recommend Rikki Kasso’s blog Tokyo Undressed.
http://tokyound...93106
It’s a photo blog with a beautiful juxtaposition of intimate sexual imagery and stunning urban landscapes. Often subtly sexy occasionally explicit.
Thanks to everyone who’s suggested MaleSubmissionArt.com. I’d be thrilled to see my site get added to the blogroll.
Not without my own suggestions, might I recommend Contexts.org new sexuality blog, Sexuality In Social Context.