Despite the best efforts of some very talented people, SugarHive is officially no-more. Hammered with spam, and lacking new content – I see no way to take it forward using a MediaWiki backbone. The software, which works well for Wikipedia, offers no easy way to give people authority, has primitive spam protection, and isn’t sexy enough to entice new users.

An open repository of free sex information is still a great idea and one that I don’t want to let die. Many people have told me they’d love to use it. The problem seems to be no-one wants to write it. Is the answer better software? Or is a free resource on that scale simply too ambitious or naive? Would a community sex-info blog, which anyone could post to, work better than a wiki? What do you think?

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Please get links to me by midnight PST on Friday 27th. Please take care to ensure that you submit a link to a post (not just your blog) and that you don’t change the link for your post in any way after submission.

As the Sugasm grows, managing the links is becoming more difficult and any help you can provide with clear information is appreciated. In the past I’ve ‘found’ items which were mis-submitted, from here on in I’m not going to be able to do that so please make sure your info’s right (and most of you are consistently great at this).

Don’t forget to record an audio or video clip for Sugasm AV….

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I’d like you to meet the Sugasm AV Orangutan. Primate’s are just the coolest.

Sugasm AV, like the Sugasm, will be an experiment in community marketing. The idea is to produce a single podcast, which contains segments produced by people all over the web. I’ll combine them into a single package, which will then be promoted across all of the participating blogs. This will run on my bandwidth and servers. As a group effort, it should be considerably easier to get into than doing a show on your own.

You don’t have to be a podcaster to participate. If you want to read something you’ve written go ahead. Video is what most people are into so that’s particularly welcome. Given the law, nothing hardcore will be accepted so keep submissions Playboy style or softer.

In order to give you the time to produce a segment I’m setting the deadline for this as midnight PST on the 27th. of January.

If you’re interested in participating, here’s how. Please take careful note as I won’t have time to individually respond to people who get it wrong.

• All files should be emailed to podnography@gmail.com
• All files must be under 10MB in size (if it bounces back, it’s too big)
• Yeah, that’s right – I make the rules.
• Audio files should be submitted in WAV, AIFF or MP3 format (MP3’s recorded at 192kbps or higher).
• Video should be submitted in MPEG (any variant) or QuickTime formats (sorry – no WMV, it won’t run through my edit system). Keep the quality high – otherwise it’ll look awful when recompressed (and that goes for audio too). Use the whole 10MB and you should be able to send me something pretty good looking.
• The no crappy video rule does not apply to anything shot with a mobile-phone. Mobile phone porn is hot.
• Keep it short. 60 seconds or less is ideal. I’m not going to edit anything, and submissions over 90 seconds will be rejected (think it though, 20, 90-second segments is a 30 minute show). 
• WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW!?
• Include a picture. Make sure it’s at least 1000px across its smallest dimension.
• If you email any huge files to my other email address I’ll put a bed inside your mothers vagina and fuck your sister on it.

I can’t wait to see who comes up with what. Abuse my inbox you nasty bitches.

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The ‘mainstream’ world is getting fairly excited by the prospect of this sex-blog network I’m working on with the 9rules crew (and yes, it does have a name but what’s the point of sending you to a URL with nothing on it yet?)

9rules CEO launching Sex Blog network

Paul Scrivens launching Sex Blog Network

- 9rules + Sugarbank = seksweblognetwerk – 

Sta arrivando il sex blog network

A lot of discussion about the concept, and wisdom, of networks in general has sprung from this. Andy Hagan’s at Performancing had this to say about second-tier networks (i.e. anything that’s not currently running profitably and wasn’t part of the first blog-network wave) and why they won’t work (from at blognetworkwatch.com):

1. Many new blog networks do not have the necessary funds to pull off a medium-scale project. You need a stash of cash to pay writers through the first six months (before major ad revenues come in and balance out this cost), and it doesn’t hurt to have money to throw at good development, design and hosting, too. (Yes, I’m aware that some networks have tried paying writers on a rev-share basis, but this seems to fail time and time again.)

2. Most new blog networks have an identity crisis – they can’t tell you what they are (besides a ‘blog network’), or what differentiates them. They are, in a word, generic.

3. They aren’t putting out content which is useful to the reader. Most of them just re-post regurgitated news without adding much value or commentary.

I’ve spent more time than most thinking about how to make money with sex blogs, and examining how the sex market differs from the mainstream. I wouldn’t be interested in networking sex blogs if I didn’t see profit in it, but the difference between me and your average rastapedic capitalist is I think the easiest things to profit from are the best made, not the best sold. McDonald’s make crappy food and market it well. I’d rather make great things and then tell people why they’re worth buying. More long-term profit, less hellish self-loathing (you’re talking to a guy who once wrote ad copy – everyone in advertising hates themselves. Those that don’t should).

It’s clear to me that building the most profitable sex-blog network means building the one most useful to readers. So how’s that done and how can I address Andy’s points?

Here’s what I know:

1. The low hanging fruit is gone. If I was launching a network in 2002 I’d be thinking about link blogs designed around popular subjects. I’d be putting together an Engadget, a Boing Boing clone, or something like Fark. Just like everyone else – including many ‘new’ networks. Now that’s been done usurping the current heavyweights would require more expense than I can afford. Believe me, it can be done (as some of those blogs will discover) but the people equipped to do it aren’t working guerilla style (and I’m at least 50% silverback).
2. Content is king. This is worth saying because none of the big blog networks have chosen to focus on it. Their genius (and their greatest weakness) is linking to other content while adding a little editorial spin, effectively making the blog a rolling single-topic search. It’s the cheapest way to operate (I wish I’d been working on this early enough to occupy some of the prime link-estate these blogs do) but totally reliant on being first, fastest and foremost. New blogs stand the best chance of competing in a crowded market by producing content themselves, not just linking to it.
3. Cost-per-click (CPC) ads are inefficient. For perfectly understandable reasons, most blogs in most networks make most of their money from CPC ads, collecting their money ten cents at a time. The top-tier blogs do better, selling ads at a flat rate, but even then it’s a straight publishing model, and that means $24,000 a year is successful, $240,000 a year makes you a serious player and $1M dollars a year in ad revenue puts you among the elite. Of course, in the jizz bizz $24,000 a year is failiure, $240,000 is what a model earns running a decent fan-site and $1M dollars a year is what Midwestern couples filming blow-jobs take home every three months. 

Sex blogs don’t have to fall prey to the weaknesses Andy, or I described.

• “Many new blog networks do not have the necessary funds to pull off a medium-scale project…” This all depends on how you describe necessary funds. The money needed to launch a blog is relatively small (tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on your style.) The biggest cost is writers wages and the obvious answer, making writers partners and paying them on a rev-share basis, doesn’t work well (as Andy pointed out) when your revenues are low. For rev-share to work writer income needs to quickly scale beyond the $10-$50 a post traditional networks can offer and for that to be true advertisers have to be paying significant sums, from the start. More practically, in order for a blog to grow fast, and attract readers and advertisers, it needs a lot of posts. If one writer, who’s waiting for a rev-share, is charged with that work it’s likely they’ll lose heart before the blog takes-off. Splitting the work across a number of writers makes the workload reasonable, and a real income can be generate for all involved without anyone having to write twelve posts a day.
• “Most new blog networks have an identity crisis – they can’t tell you what they are (besides a ‘blog network’), or what differentiates them.” How about a sex-blog network, dedicated to delivering the best sexually themed content to blog readers? A market that’s specific, large and totally underserved. Next.
• “They aren’t putting out content which is useful to the reader.” The solution here is to generate content, not link to it. By producing content (as this blog does) you become the subject linked to and guarantee readers that they’ll find stuff in your blog (network) they can’t find elsewhere. Getting to links faster than the existing link-blogs? Good luck.

So content producing blogs, with a clear identity should be hugely useful to readers as long as they can be funded properly. Luckily, in the world of sex, an infrastructure exists for paying webmasters for traffic, which is more lucrative than that in any other area (despite Amazon’s dubious patents – pornographers invented the affiliate program, not booksellers). Instead of paying for clicks, or selling ads at a flat rate, adult sites pay for conversions (new members). As new subscribers have a significant lifetime value, the rewards for finding them are large.

Good adult websites can consistently turn one in every two-hundred visitors into a customer when fed quality traffic. So for 200 clicks, where a cost-per-click ad on a ‘mainstream’ blog might earn $2-$20 (if typically paying one to twenty cents a click), an adult website can earn $20-$100 via a Cost-Per-Action (CPA) affiliate program. If an average adult website pays $40 for a new member (which is a fair estimate) that’s twice the earning protential of a ‘mainstream’ blog off the bat.

Additionally, ‘mainstream’ ads are usually for products which must be, mailed through the post, or experienced in a compromised form online. Adult ads offer immediate access to uncompromised content (an episode of ‘Lost’ from the iTunes store is compromised because it doesn’t look as good as one on DVD. A photo from a porn site doesn’t usually exist in another form, which makes the online version seem second-best, and is therefore uncompromised). Instant gratification and uncompromised content make ads for adult material significantly more effective than those in the ‘mainstream’. Additionally sex-content plays to a basic human need which is often capable of overturning reasoned consideration – Porn buyers want to buy NOW.

Which is why I think there’s a glowing future in being part of (or blogging for) a sex-blog network and am working so hard on building one. When it happens the revenue generated by the mainstream networks will seem minor by comparison, and the real winners will be the people who like to read about, watch and listen to, sex.

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“Free your mind and you ass will follow.” George Clinton

That I’m building a Sex Blog network isn’t news to most of you. What will be is that I’m not doing it alone, and that my partner in this venture is Paul Scrivens and Co, the team behind 9rules.

The decision to team up was simple.

1. Collaboration is smarter than competition (ask OPEC or the Mafia)
2. Paul and his team have experience networking (I don’t)
3. I know the adult market (which Paul et al don’t)

Together we intend to apply a potent mixture of insider knowledge, new ideas and practical experience to build a network that serves bloggers as well as blog-readers.

In the next couple of weeks expect to hear a lot more about the network (including its name) and announcements regarding the blogs that will form its core. If you want to nominate a blog for inclusion, even if it’s your own, you know where to find me.

Popularity: 61% [?]

The best of the blogs by the bloggers who blog them. This week starting with the letter ‘T’.

• Things That Make Me Go MMMmmm… (temptation-unleashed.blogspot.com – removed)
• The Personal Touch… (shaysexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• Unrecovered memories (realadultsex.com)
• What do you taste like? (lumpesse.com)
• An Ass Licking (sexinga.blogspot.com)
• Airport (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Caveat Anal (mzemily.vixenblogs.com)
• Condom statue angers Catholics (sexblo.gs)
• Dumped by a Client (radicalvixen.com)
• Forgiveness (nyc-urban-gypsy.blogspot.com)
• Fun to be Bound, Bound to be Fun – ‘Seduction’ (chaosnoir.blogspot.com)
• I’m proud… (pornster.blogspot.com)
• In need (mnsss.blogspot.com)
• In the Beginning (deliacd.com)
• London Calling (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• Moonlight and Fucking (tastytrixie.com)
• Not Picky About Porn (damnjezebel.com)
• Podnography #17 – Coed strippers, Wikipedia and Katie’s big O (podnography.com)
• Reach Out and Touch Someone (anyonesgirl.blogspot.com)
• Should I? (whatsexmaycome.blogspot.com)
• Smooth as a… (cherryboudoir.com)
• StoryTime: coming to work (secretbrain.blogspot.com)

Lovingly policed by Sabrina Morgan

Thursday 29th – link removed for non-compliance

Popularity: 40% [?]

Here are 23 reasons to leave SugarBank and check out something else – if only for a moment. The best of the sex(y) blogs, by the bloggers who write them:

• A Pregnant Pause (nakedloftparty.com)
• Bend Over Boyfriend (sexinga.blogspot.com)
• Can You Imagine (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Do my Wife (sexyshoessexy.blogspot.com)2
• Foam and lather (wilfuldamage.blogspot.com)
• Full-On Naked Recovery (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)
• Get Your BadAss Gear at JT’s Stockroom (tirepaddle.com)
• Idiots with Phones (mimredbeard.com)
• In the Dungeon… [Pt. 1] (temptation-unleashed.blogspot.com)
• Just say yes (realadultsex.com)
• KitKast 1.10 (mskitka.com)
• Law to require bathroom for transvestites (sexblo.gs)
• Nice big human clinical thermometer (pornster.blogspot.com)
• Party (anyonesgirl.blogspot.com)
• Podnography #16 – A Video Sex Podcast (sugarbank.com)
• Psycho Santa (chaosnoir.blogspot.com)
• Remote Control (radicalvixen.com)
• Santa’s Naughty List Continued…… (whatsexmaycome.blogspot.com)
• StoryTime: The Layover (secretbrain.blogspot.com)
• The Last I’ll Say about the Saugreen Stripper (shaysexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• The Perfect Gift (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• The Shower (nyc-urban-gypsy.blogspot.com)
• The Violence of Love – The Pleasure of Pain (deltaofvenus.blogspot.com)
• The Violence of Words (seska4lovers.com)

(with special thanks to the lovely Sabrina Morgan who checks our links)

Update: Two links fixed (3:02 p.m. PST)

Popularity: 46% [?]

Since launching SugarBank I’ve spent a considerable amount of time wondering where all the sex blogs are. Unlike the mainstream web which is saturated with good, bad and what-the-fuck-is-that porn (remember when the web was just porn and X10 camera pop-under ads? – the good old days…), the adult blog space seems a little weak. One major networked sex blog, a few huge TGP’s pretending to be blogs and a lot of lovingly handcrafted small sites seem to be all there is on offer. When I asked for recommendations earlier this week, people responded with all the enthusiasm of Nascar fans at an R. Kelly concert.

As I’m really only useful when I know what I’m talking about (or am completely naked ladies), I decided to investigate, and find out if the lack of sex(y) blogs was real or imagined.

I started by visiting Technorati. For all their flaws they do as good a job as anyone at providing a rough snapshot of what’s happening in the blog space. I looked up ten popular tags, and counted how many blogs were listed in each case:

The first interesting point is that Tags like ‘Gadgets’ which are very thoroughly and professionally blogged pull comparitively few blogs, likewise sex related tags aren’t used that often. Based on this it appears that the sex business doesn’t yet know the difference (wait for it) between its (WAIT for it) RSS and it’s elbow (YES! YES! Pure gold. Damn I’m funny.) Another conclusion might be that sex bloggers don’t tag, but in that case, we can assume as many sex-bloggers ignore their tags as those in the mainstram, and still make comparisons between categories. The other alternative is that there’s been a cooling effect, where the big blogs are so effectively dominating a niche that they’ve killed competition Google-Mart style.

I then looked at each tag in more detail. Technorati ranks blogs based on the number of incoming links from other blogs they have, counting the number of individual blogs linking as of primary importance, and the number of total links after that. I.e. ten links from ten different blogs means more to Technorati than ten (or twenty) links from the same blog – but Technorati does consider both numbers.

For each tag, I looked at the 20 blogs with the most links, and counted the number of linking blogs. Plotting the number of links against each blog results in a line which tells us more about what’s going on in each area of interest:

(click to enlarge)

I then did the same thing with the sex-related tags:

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In the graphs above, the area under each line represents the amount of activity in each category, while the shape of each line shows how strong the top blogs in each category are relative to each other.

‘Gadgets’ and ‘Blogs’ are both tags which the graph reveals are dominated by large blogs (Engadget and BoinBong in this case) which absorb the majority of links in the areas they cover. Conversely ‘Politics’ isn’t a tag dominated by any single blog, containing a large number of very strong blogs, all of whom share the link love reasonably evenly.

Of course, what’s most interesting to us is the weakness of the sex tags. Based on this graph it appears that the adult market, arguably the most profitable online, isn’t being actively contested. Despite thousands of companies, many of them with millions of dollars to spend, with a foot in the industry, sex tags appear to be underutilized.

Fleshbot is currently the market leading sex-blog (probably followed by Erosblog – which may get more pageviews but isn’t formally networked and has a lower profile), and many babelogs get the kind of traffic most mainstream websites find hard to process (millions of pageviews a day). Could they be having a cooling effect and be responsible for the low use of sex tags? Not unless Technorati is blind to the biggest blogs in the marketplace, and that could only happen if they’re choosing not be listed (Fleshbot?) or not using tags.

The point is RSS has changed the rules. Powerful websites were good at attracting raw traffic, but dominating in the blog space, and attracting the high-quality visitors who choose to subscribe to what you have to say, means being good at generating links-in. Right now, the sex arena (which is where I sometimes play nice, and other times rough ladies), is still wide open. Due to choice, error or ignorance, the biggest sex-blogs are still thinking like websites.

What’s the upshot of this brief analysis?

1. If you think you’ve ‘missed out’ on the porn boom, these numbers should give you pause for thought, in the blog space – things have only just begun.
2. The number of blogs that link to you matters (which is where the bloggasm can make a big difference. Links from small blogs carry equal weight to links from large blogs within Technorati, so the size of the blogs linking to you isn’t that important.)
3. If you’re not tagging you’re missing out on a lot of interest. People looking for sex-based content using tags don’t have much to choose from right now.

Popularity: 52% [?]

The tenth bloggasm is a milestone. Thanks to all the bloggers who’ve supported a wild idea based on good-faith and goodwill. I’ve been told that a bloggasm link created more response for one poster than a link from BoingBoing. An exceptional result for sure but proof of where this kind of collaboration can lead.

Here are this week’s greatest hits (all sixteen of them). I’m working on a dedicated ‘Bloggasm’ page with some links to participating bloggers who post a link back to the idea. I’m hoping by bloggasm #20 we’ll have doubled our number of participants again. As always, send me your links whenever you have them and enjoy the following filth.

• Ahh! No! Don’t Come In! (shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• A Thanksgiving Hand Spanking (radicalvixen.com)
• Design A Contest, Win A Paddle or Flogger (tirepaddle.com)
• Edges – Part I – A Story of Rape, Compliciity and Consent
• Fuck Google (sugarbank.com)
• Girls Kissing (sexblo.gs)
• How to Make a Video Podcast – Part 1: Creative Planning (mskitka.com)
• Karly’s Visit to the Hairdresser – by Joe (karlyjoe.blogspot.com)
• My deep, dark secret (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)
• Naked (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• On the Road (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• Stuffed and Basted (bikerballsandteachettits.blogspot.com)
• The Enlightenment of Dark Sexuality (deltaofvenus.blogspot.com)
• Webcam Pics (seska4lovers.com)
• Whoops (swelteringcelt.com)
• Women working out make me horny (pornster.blogspot.com)

Paticipating bloggers, please repost the links above by Midnight on Sunday. To join the bloggasm email me.

Update: Broken link fixed Saturday 2:57 p.m.

Popularity: 43% [?]

The best of the blogs by the bloggers who blog them:

• *GASP* (swelteringcelt.com)
• Kisses and Candlesticks – Give Your Way to a Million Dollars (sugarbank.com)
• Kitkast #1.6 – 2Much, Dita Von Teese and Erotic Bloggers in Japan (mskitka.com)
• Look Into My Eyes (nyc-urban-gypsy.blogspot.com)
• Love in the Gutter – The Vexed Desire for Consensual Rape (deltaofvenus.blogspot.com)
• Photo A Go Go (tirepaddle.com)
• Pain Sluts and the Dommes who love them… (mimredbeard.com)
• Psst! Meet me in the Gym at Midnight (shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• Riiiiiiiiiing (radicalvixen.com)
• Sex Scars (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Telemarketing & Whores (seska4lovers.com)
• The Fellator (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• When Reality Becomes Fantasy… (innocuousmale.blogspot.com)

If you’re linked from the bloggasm, please repost the all the links above by midnight on Sunday. If you want to be included in the next bloggasm (and get linked from all these killer sites) email sam.sugar@gmail.com.

Popularity: 40% [?]

Enjoy the best of the blogs by the bloggers who blog them:

• Adult magazine covers (from the Past) (sexblo.gs)
• Androgyny (seska4lovers.com)
• Bedroom Radio #6 – Comfort Stand Records
• CTT – A Day Late! (corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)
• Dressed (bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com)
• European vs. American Attitudes to Sex (sugarbank.com)
• Hands In My Pants (wilfuldamage.blogspot.com)
• Kitkast #1.5 – LiveCamNetwork, JC’s Girls and Parents in Adult (mskitka.com)
• Muse and Mentor (deltaofvenus.blogspot.com)
• Nautica Binx (pspporn.com)
• Podnography #15 – SoccerGirl, a Flechlight competition and the Fleshbot T-Shirt (podnography.com)
• Pull My Daisy Chain (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• The Ass (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Ultimate Geekdom (swelteringcelt.com)
• Unleash the super whore in your wife(perfectmarriage.co.uk)
• Vaginas Are Confusing (shaysexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• Wedding Anniversary (radicalvixen.com)

If you’re linked from the bloggasm, please repost the all the links above by midnight on Sunday. If you want to be included in the next bloggasm (and get linked from all these killer sites) email sam.sugar@gmail.com.

Update: I messed up this week and missed a link from sexblo.gs (and A perfect marriage! – sorry Ed.) Please update your lists – they’re great blogs and, as this mistake is all Sammy, I’ve informed them that they need only add links to this week’s bloggasm which are reciprocated (that’s a general rule by the way – in case you ever find yourself missing from the pages of a participant – please let me know). Sorry for the inconvienience and the – well let’s call it stupidity.

Popularity: 41% [?]

The best of the blogs by the bloggers who blog them:

• A Free Book For Every Blogger (sugarbank.com)
• An Exhibition in the Living Room (corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)
• A Woman’s Voice (radicalvixen.com)
• Boots (swelteringcelt.com)
• Cane Kisses (deltaofvenus.blogspot.com)
• Compatibility (perfectmarriage.co.uk)
• Dominique Dane (pspporn.com)
• Halloween 15 Years Ago (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Hentai vs. Standard Porn (shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
• I Fucked Che Guevara (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• Is It Trafficking Now In My Bed? (sacredwhore.org)
• KITKAST #1.4 – Tommy Torque, Suicide Girls and Guba.com (mskitka.com)
• Naked Ambition (seska4lovers.com)
• Podnography #14 – Seska, Fleshlights and the Sperm Cube (podnography.com)
• Porn for the Blind (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)

(NB: Bloggers, please note a small change in the bloggasm rules. Unfortunately some people haven’t been posting the bloggasm links to their blogs in a timely manner. Leeching traffic from other blogs goes against the whole mutual collaboration idea. Therefore, from here forward, I’ll check to see when each blog is posting. Any blog who hasn’t reposted the bloggasm links by Monday will be removed from the bloggasm and the other bloggers who have posted informed of who’s leeching. Mistakes can be explained, but repeated mistakes will be considered intentional exploitation and killer robots will be assigned and targeted.)

Popularity: 48% [?]

The best of the blogs by the bloggers who blog them:

• A Common Anatomy (wilfuldamage.blogspot.com)
• Bedroom Radio #5 – British Invasion (lumpesse.com)
• Child Free Night (perfectmarriage.co.uk)
• Hitting the iNail on the iHead (mskitka.com)
• Inizzi (easilyaroused.co.uk)
• Japanese teens selling their saliva (sexblo.gs)
• Podnography #13 – Ms. Kitka, Audiocrush and Max Hardcore (podnography.com)
• Questions Questions (radicalvixen.com)
• Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (sugarbank.com)
• Sex. Work. (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)
• Sit On My Face And Tell Me You Love Me… (corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)
• So Glad to be a Girl (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Speaking in Tongues (theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
• $pread Open (seska4lovers.com)
• What are you waiting for? (livejournal.com/users/nicebluejournal)

Find out how to join the bloggasm here.

Popularity: 39% [?]

Luba.

The best of our blogs, by the bloggers who write them:

• Bedroom Radio – Episode #4 (bedroomradio.blogspot.com)
• Book-Nerd (alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
• Clinging to my Dignity (radicalvixen.com)
• I want! I want! I want! (seska4lovers.com)
• Luba in the Bubble Chair (pspporn.com)
• Podnography #12 – Tony Comstock, DDGirls and Sharon Stone (podnography.com)
• Position of the Month (corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)
• Siesta (perfectmarriage.co.uk)
• Slipping Into Something More Comfortable: the anatomy of my sexual growth via underwear ownership trends (lumpesse.com)
• The Transformation Part 1 (domesticdeviance.blogspot.com)
• Thou Shalt be Evicted (mskitka.com)
• Video Has Been Assimilated (sugarbank.com)
• What did Porn ever do wrong? (mimredbeard.com)

Join the bloggasm here

Popularity: 20% [?]

Nella.

The best sex blog posts, by the bloggers who wrote them:

• Adult Babies (radicalvixen.com)
• Dominating E (lumpesse.com)
• Eat, Drink and Remain Horny (corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)
• How to Make a Professional (Amateur) Porn Film (sugarbank.com)
• I Get Hot Looking at Snatch (seska4lovers.com)
• May I? (domesticdeviance.blogspot.com)
• Minutes of Board Meeting (perfectmarriage.co.uk)
• Mirta Showering (pspporn.com)
• Podnography #11 – Dave Naz, Fetish Flame and Janet Jackson (podnography.com)
• Shut Up Bitch (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)
• The Blame Game (mskitka.com)

Join the bloggasm

(If you’re part of the bloggasm please repost these links to you blog. Present them however you feel comfortable, you don’t have to include any of my (pretty fabulous) writing)

Popularity: 20% [?]

It’s been a big week. Since I mentioned networking last Sunday AOL has bought Weblogs Inc and Verisign has bought Weblogs.com. If you ever doubted that Fortune 500 CEO’s read SugarBank…

Since then I’ve spoken to business people who I didn’t know were reading this blog (hang loose G.W. – see you in Crawford), and refinded my ideas about networking. As it’s Sunday – which is members only day at SugarBank – let me share the principles I’d build a network around (borrowed from Ninja movies mostly). 

Making money’s okay
(A Ninja kills for pay)
Blogs that make money (the vast majority of those anyone cares about) need not be any less ‘authentic’ or ‘friendly’ than ‘hobby-blogs’. When it comes to sex, some people assume earning an income can’t sit comfortably with honesty and a ‘homemade’ aesthetic. That’s not only false, but the web ‘amateur’ niche is built around people making an income from their activities.

Making money’s not the point
(A Ninja kills for honor)
If building a network is about making people pay for what once was free it won’t fly. If revenue is used to make blogs better, by letting writers focus on writing. giving them a larger audience to write for and raising their profile in the fields they write about – it’ll work. Advertising serves the blogs, not vice-versa. Making money should not be done in a way that upsets, frustrates or excludes readers.

Teams always beat individuals
(A gang of Ninja’s can kill any number of non-Ninjas)
If you’re writing original material, making even two quality posts a day is a Herculean effort.  The blog networks have addressed this problem by employing teams of writers, who can collectively produce up to 40 posts a day. These teams produce the big blogs needed to anchor and feed every successful network.

In my view, the next logical step beyond an editorial team, is a community blog to its readers – which retains editorial bloggers for the quality and focus they provide. This hybrid model, a cross between community blogs (like Metafiler) and edited blogs (like Boing Boing), is currently (kinda/almost) in use at Fark.

Covering the world of sex this way is particularly natural, making it easy for people to anonymously share things they find appealing, and providing a space for bloggers to tell the world-beyond-their-blog what they’re saying. It also enables people who don’t want to run a blog, to publish their thoughts and be read – the very essence of online community.

All blogs are equal, some are more equal than others
(Batman is a Ninja who kills Ninjas, but Ninjas cannot kill Batman)
Traditional networks are ‘flat’, either aggregating blogs owned by a single entitiy, or linking blogs run by individuals – seldom both.  I see an advantage to combining the two approaches, allowing tight integration for bloggers who want the support and readers that can bring, while leaving the door open to more established blogs who want to be part of a community, but are strong enough to thrive without full access to network support. In the world of sex-sites, where the distance between readerships blog-to-blog can be galaxian (I made that word up and it’s a goody), this flexibility could make networking across the gaps possible.

No sell-out
(If you offer a guy a bribe, and he’s a Ninja, he’ll come back later in his Ninja clothes and teach you respect Kung-Fu style)
Many businesses only exist to attract a wealthy buyer in the mid-term. As the world realizes we’re now in the second internet bubble, the number of companies trying to stretch a thin idea in the hope of a quick return is rising daily. Blog networks are a huge part of the problem, but a sex-blog network won’t be.

A buyout is extremely unlikely (there are too few public companies comfortable enough to buy into sex), which means any sex-blog network has to be built with a future in mind, from a base which doesn’t require a big advertising budget or venture capital, and can only be considered a success if it works for its members and readers (unlike mainstream companies which are a ’success’ when they’re sold to a competitor). Sex-blog networking has to be done right.

So there you have it. Sex-blog networking the Sugar way. Continue to email me if you’re excited and thanks to all those who have – it’s been fun. Making this work requires plenty of sex-blog ninjas (SugarNinjas in ivory silk ninja costumes – so foxy.)

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Going Daily – text
(talkingdirty.blogspot.com)

Helpful Tips for National Porn Sunday – text
(mskitka.com)

Podnography #10 – Tera Patrick, Violet Blue and Foot Fetishes – podcast
(podnography.com)

Shock the Piggy! – text
(domesticdeviance.blogspot.com)

The Death of Suicide Girls – text
(sugarbank.com)

The jury is out on thongs – text
(lumpesse.com)

We’re Pleased To Say… – photo, text
(cointhiancouple.blogspot.com)

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It’s that time again. Be sure to let me know what you think Bloggasm #3 should be linking to by Friday night. As always, in return for reposting the links, you get to see your links on the other sites in the bloggasm – it’s like a big mutual trackback done without any technology.

Why join the bloggasm? Search engines find you, readers flock to you – somewhere a child smells a flower and writes ‘Love’ into damp sand with their finger.

(If you were in last weeks bloggasm and haven’t reposted the links, don’t come crying to me when your pets die.)

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When I started talking about networking earlier this week, I wasn’t really saying ‘let’s start a network’ but it’s beginning to seem like a real possibility.

Paul Scrivens – founder of the 9rules network, and I have been talking. He’s into the idea and runs an adult blog of his own. He also knows a lot about networks and we’re discussing applying some of his expertise in the networking area. This is big. If the people reading this blog were mainly graphic designers, you’d all be doing a ‘Scrivs dance’ right now and high-fiving each other, Borat style. The man (Scrivs, not Borat) is a blogging heavyweight and his interest makes this a whole lot easier to get right.

So it looks as if we can start a network, aimed at sex bloggers, with quality to rival B5 Media, Gawker and Weblogs, Inc. The question is, do you want one?

I know from the email I’ve been receiving, that a couple of days ago I managed to give the impression that I want people to change their blogs, cede control and conform to dictatorial rule. About the only thing people haven’t accused the network concept of encouraging is vivisection (although there might be a hot sex angle for that… I’ll get back to you). Some of the emails I’ve received are so worryingly wrong regarding my stance (which is my fault for writing a post that wasn’t clear) that I took the post I thought you’d be reading today out back and shot it in the face.

In its place is this, which starts at the beginning by asking, what kind of formal collaboration between sex blogs can exist? As I see it there are three paths:

1. No collaboration. That means placing links to other sites only because they benefit you, never thinking about symbiotic feedback, or benefits of association other than traffic exchange. I’m not aware of any blogs (which I read) who follow this mantra but a few traditional porn-sites (e.g. many TGP’s and topsites) do.
2. Informal collaboration. Almost 100% of bloggers work in this way (and have to as there’s no alternative system in place). That means placing links entirely based on your own desires, sometimes trying to build relationships, sometimes as recognition of worthwhile content and sometimes as favor to a friend. It’s not all about building traffic, and is a creative decision as well as a business one. How well it works depends on how much attention each blogger gives their links. It’s very good at expressing bloggers opinions, and not very good at helping readers find what they want.
3. Formal collaboration. The network idea, an extension of informal collaboration whereby a group of websites agree to support each other as a community. I.e. Bloggers agree that, a friend of the network is a friend of mine. Every blog links to the network hub and the network hub links to every blog. Network members get the support of the entire community via one link. Readers get an easy path to quality content.

Networking doesn’t mean common design, shared hosting/technology, or any loss of copyright or editorial control. The key is community, not communism. When Lenin said,

“It is not enough that I succeed, others must fail.”

He was demonstrating a complete misunderstanding of the network idea (Lenin – you’re out!)

I see networking, of the kind described above, as having a number of positive benefits, ‘hothousing’ its members, and giving readers a seal of quality they can use to access the very best sex-blog content. Side benefits for network members can include help with hosting, technical and design support and tools to monetize blogs that aren’t currently providing a return. It’s a way of building a community for bloggers and a community for readers simultaneously.

I don’t see the idea as perfect for everyone, (aside from Angelina Jolie – is anything perfect for everyone?) but my hippy ‘love everyone’ leanings make the idea of collaboration, community, and mutual support fundamentally appealing. (Of course there’s stuff I’d like to do with Angelina and an unloaded Desert Eagle with a condom over the barrel which aren’t hippyish at all). The question is, who else finds the idea exciting (the network, not Angelina and the gun), and what else would you want from a sex-blog network built for you as a reader, or potential member?

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The best of the sex blogs as selected by the bloggers who write them:

Celebrate National Porn Sunday With Porn – Text
(mskitka.com)

Diddle My Skittle – Text
(madelineinthemirror.blogspot.com)

Janova In Bed – Photo
(pspporn.com)

Meet the Nubians – Text
(onelifetaketwo.blogspot.com)

Orgasm Control Training – Text
(talkingdirty.blogspot.com)

Playboy Digital – Reviewed – Text
(sugarbank.com)

Podnography #9 – SoccerGirl, Sex with Emily and Japanese Brothels – Podcast
(podnography.com)

Traci Lords – Text
(sugarhive.org)

Wham Bam Thank You Lord C – Text
(corinthiancouple.blogspot.com)

You give me fever – Text
(thefuckhouse.blogspot.com)

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A gathering of bloggers.

This is the first post, of what I hope will be many, highlighting the most interesting, most controversial and smartest posts from the sexblogosphere – as nominated by the bloggers who wrote them.

Not chosen by a committee, or pre-judged, these posts reflect each bloggers ‘pick’ of their own best work in the previous week. It’s an easy way to try a new blog, written by someone who shares your interests.

Simultaneously bloggasming:

• A Silly Idea (sugarbank.com)
• There is no better time to be a library student and obsessed with sex. . . (lumpesse.com)
• Porn ads in Adsense (mymoneyblog.net)
• Random Fetish Attack (talkingdirty.blogspot.com)
• Vibeke (pspporn.com)
• Podnography #8 – Adonna Vichet, Martha’s Girls and Anal Sex (podnography.com)

(Bloggers, participate by emailing your best recent post to sam.sugar@gmail.com. The bloggasm is posted to SugarBank on Saturday, included bloggers commit to posting the bloggasm links within seven days.)

Read blogs and want to contribute to the bloggasm? Email me your recommendations as above.

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I get paid to have ideas – and illuminate the world with my natural beauty. Sometimes ideas don’t work but beauty always does, so if this idea falls flat, know that however hard you laugh – I am still beautiful.

Recently I’ve been cross-posting between my blogs, i.e. letting readers of one blog know what’s going on at my other blogs by posting links between them. It’s obvious and it works, more people seem to be reading everything.

So why don’t we all do it?

Once a week a few sex(y) bloggers could post a list of links to noteworthy posts on friendly blogs, letting readers know what’s worth seeing and turning our respective audiences onto each other. It’s what a lot of blogs specialize in, but doing it this way means a community promotes a community instead of a big blog promoting just pushing a bunch of smaller ones. 

If you run a sex(y) blog and want to give this a try, post a permalink to your best post from the past week in the comments section before the end of Thursday. Add a short description (20 words or so) and I’ll put together a list of the posts and publish them here on Saturday.

Every blogger on the list will then post the links to their blog sometime before the end of the weekend. (Those who don’t risk a massive denial of service attack launched from the military spec, ex-KGB Cray mainframe I picked up on eBay last weekend.)

If it works we should swap readers, build links between our blogs and, by the end of Tuesday – rule the world as benign blogging dictators. (I might have got a bit carried away with that last bit. World rule by Thursday’s way more likely.)

(NB: Links to huge ads or anything else that truly sucks will be ignored. Bloggers who don’t cross-post will be blackballed – by Lexington Steele. Anally and lube-free).

Email Sam to submit a post for the latest bloggasm

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Richpizor, stud that he is, has written an article on Strip Poker for SugarHive that’s well worth checking out.

The hippness of poker among people under 50 is almost as worrying to me as the ongoing popularity of golf. These are games designed to be played by the slow-witted (i.e. golf – isn’t putting balls in holes physical therapy?) and the infirm (poker – five hours of thrilling sitting-down action).

Now who’s going to write something on that other SugarBank approved entertainment, spin the bottle?

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I owe you all an apology. A couple of weeks ago I talked about fixing SugarHive’s homepage to highlight noteworthy articles, and credit the people who submitted them. I didn’t.

I can’t say what kept me (I’ve sworn an oath) but I will say that the world’s a little safer thanks to what the Pentagon is now calling ‘The Copenhagen Incident’.

No need for thanks. It’s what I do.

I have (finally) tweaked the homepage, so let me know when you add an article (and that’s a hint). Not only will you make a contribution to this happy community of web-based wankers, but you’ll also get a ton of publicity for yourself via SugarBank, SugarHive and Podnography.

Email me about what you add (or anything else) here.

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Credit is better than money. Probably.

Ideas are like everyone’s penis but mine. Sometimes they just don’t work.

Last week I suggested we collaborate on a daily post to SugarHive. I thought a few hundred of us could knock out a great article each day and really get things moving. The silence which greeted the idea was deafening (aside from Ms. Kitka who’s clearly cuter and smarter than the rest of you – which I say despite never having met, or KitKat‘d her, which, given her name I could probably do)

So I’m going to follow the example laid down by parents everywhere and bribe you lazy fuckers. From now on, anyone who emails me a link to a new article they’ve written at SugarHive will get two things in return.

• A link from/credit on the SugarHive homepage lasting a day.
• A link to their site/blog/favorite charity and credit in a post here at SugarBank (you will earn the official title ‘Hero of the (Sexual) Revolution’)

In its first 16 days SugarHive has generated over 40,000 pageviews. That can only grow when there’s, you know – stuff to actually read up there. If you submit an article, a lot of cool people will find your site and recognize your rockstar status.

What are the rules?

1. The article has to be article length (it’s not fixed but think 300 words plus). If it’s too short it’s a stub and it doesn’t count.
2. The article has to be original – no cutting and pasting from Wikipedia, or "Jimbo’s Digital ‘How to Fuck Cows’ Guide". Cheaters will be bukkaked on.
3. You can write about anything you want, but it has to be relevant to the sexual theme of the wiki. Want to write about Jack Nicholson? Fine – just make sure it’s all about his sex scenes and who he puts his postman in.

You can write a new piece, and get linked, every day if you like. You can even write an article about your own website. Could this be any easier?

No. So c’mon, make my nipples hard let’s go…

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Yes, you may have another.

Since launch 10 days ago SugarHive, the world’s first sex wiki, has grown to over 1,000 pages and over 35,000 page views.

We rock.

A lot of the articles online are still stubs and I’d like to start building bigger articles. To fit in with the collaborative ethos of the whole wiki thing I thought I’d highlight a ’stub’ here every day, so that everyone who wants to can work on the same thing. In that way, as a team, we should be able to build long articles in just a day.

If this as astoundingly clever as I think it is? Maybe? That whole ‘Say NO! to Bush’ campaign supposed to get Democrats to shave off their pubes for the 2004 election never really got off the ground. I do make mistakes so, if you have a better idea let me know about it.

Today’s stub is Fetishes.

Add what you know (even if it’s just a line, a word or a correction). Let’s see how far we can get in a day and don’t forget that SugarHive’s pages are yours, be bold – you’re completely anonymous.

(NB: As of today you can also upload photo’s to SugarHive so feel free to make the pages look foxy.)

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I’ve created a Sexual Slang page at SugarHive and added a few of my favorite ways of referring to sexual organs and activities.

I look forward to being able to offend more people, more subtly, with the aid of your contribution.

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‘Fun’ is currently the most popular category at SugarHive, so I decided to make a contribution.

Check out this (in)complete list of fake movie titles here. Some of these should be made, other shouldn’t be repeated aloud and some are pulled from movies, books and TV.

As always, feel free to make improvements.

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The wiki’s backed up onto this.

On Sunday, as regular readers know, I completely stop caring about what people think.

Sunday is when all the lightweight blog-readers do whatever lightweights do. Embroider keyboard covers or some similar weak-ass shit. I’ve just set fire to an orphanage and now, I’m sitting down to a roast puppy-meat sandwich. I love Sundays.

The response to SugarHive has been fantastic. In under a day we have gone from nothing to about 30 articles. I feel like a new parent, though the metaphor breaks down before you really start to think about it (don’t or you’ll watch it fall apart and I’ll seem stupid.)

Here are 25 cool things you can do with SugarHive (as soon as you make the pages which are missing of course).

• Post a review of an adult movie you’ve seen
• Research a fetish
• Look up treatment for an STD
• Contact talent agencies and model bookers
• Read about an adult website you want to join
• Read the biography of an adult performer
• See a list of all an adult performer’s movies
• Find lists of escort agency’s and the laws which govern them in your area
• Write about an adult website you’ve joined
• Post information regarding adult websites you own
• Find a good 2257 lawyer
• Discover the real ‘official’ website for your favorite performer
• Find a web host for adult content
• Research the history of sex movies
• Find local swingers clubs
• Research the history of sex websites
• Find tips on improving your sexual technique
• Get advice on safe sex
• Read about the latest sex toys
• Find strip clubs in any part of the world
• Get links to websites that deal with your fetish
• Research international sex laws
• Find a decent dirty joke
• Locate stores that sell imported sex comics
• Check up on a sexual urban legend

How many articles will be in the Hive on September 1st? Post your guesses here over the course of the next week, I’ll come up with a decent prize for whoever gets closest.

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The server’s in space when Alberto Gonzales has no jurisdiction.

A week ago, back when men were men and women were men too, I suggested that a sex wiki might be a cool thing to have. A few of you, and you know who you are, emailed me and said "Sam you are a fucking genius." I knew that already.  Now SugarHive.org (.com and .net) is here.

You’ll note – it’s devoid of content and that’s where you come in.

I’ve laid out a few sections, paid for the bandwidth and installed the software. Now we have to turn the idea into a resource. It can be whatever you need it to be.

I know some of you have ideas you want to post – that’s great, for anyone who doesn’t, here’s what you can do.

• SugarHive needs ’stubs’. A stub is a short article (it can be a single sentence) which contains some information, but is primarily a placeholder until a more detailed article can be written. Anyone can write a stub – it’s easy. “Fellatio describes oral copulation between a lucky man and his partners”. Actually, that’s a stub that needs fixing.

• Make corrections. SugarHive will be (screw it, is already) full of typos and mistakes. Anal but don’t want to write about anal? Fix other peoples mistakes. We’ll thank you for it.

• Police. Unfortunately some asshole is bound, at somepoint, to try and destroy some of the work we do at SugarHive. Undoing changes with MediaWiki (the wiki software we’re using) is easy. See any vandalism? Roll it back (or tell me about it).

SugarHive.org could become an important, deep and fun guide to the world of human sexuality. Please contribute something so we can make this idea a ‘thing’, it’ll be a cool thing I’m sure.

(NB: If you want to ensure that someone else isn’t working on the same article you are, let people know in the comments for this post. You can of course add to and amend anything on the wiki as it appears.)

Let’s go! (be bold – it’s your wiki)

PS. If there aren’t at least ten stubs and one full article online by tomorrow I’m turning SugarHive into a resource for beekeepers. Seriously.

PPS. Did you know it’s legal to have sex with animals in Sweden? That the most common furry lover is a horse? That you can get a license from the Swedish government to film animal porn? See – if you’d posted it to SugarHive you would. I had to learn that from the Bikini team (who left their horse at home).

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The book also contains images of tits and ass.

Dave Naz is one of my favorite girly photographers. You may have seen his books, or the work he does for adult magazines, if not I recommend the books – better models, better printing and more to see in general.

Naz specializes in shooting women in ways that make them seem as if they’ve just wandered into the room sans-makeup. There’s a cute, happy sexy thing going on in his stuff which is far harder to capture than the “swimming through a paddling pool filled with lukewarm cum”, thing that a lot of other people are going for.

Like breast-shaped airbags, his images are pure fantasy of course, but it’s hard not to believe that somewhere, women look like that.

I mention Dave because I’ve just discovered his blog. If you’re thinking about modeling nude for the first time, want to look great and want to work for someone professional, well regarded and lacking criminal convictions – Dave’s worth a call. If you want to see what good, modern porn looks like, or doubt it exists, check out his stuff. I still advise you to start a website (a blog to be specific) but working with a great shooter like Dave will only help.

Over the weekend, which I’m embarrassed to say saw me leaving the house not once, I got a couple of ‘Sam what the fuck is a wiki you geek motherfucker’ emails.

In a nutshell:

"A wiki is a website which allows anyone to make changes and edits to its pages. In this way people can collaboratively add to, or edit, the wiki (website) to make corrections and improvements."

The power of a wiki is the large number of people involved. Even if individual contributions are small, when people start adding to a wiki it grows fast. I’ve been writing SugarBank for just over two months and there are now 92 articles here. SugarHive.org (our sex wiki) could have 90 articles in its first week.

Most wiki’s, like Wikipedia, would be impossible to build any other way (Wikipedia’s now ten times larger than Britannica). SugarHive will be a repository for everythign that thousands (hopefully) of people know about sex.

It could be something really special. Everything sex related you can think of in one place. A unique resource for education (for all those kids with parents who don’t tell them anything) and pleasure (pretty much everything that’s not educational).

We’re going to do it. I’m excited.

Oh yeah, I finished the mother-loving (a phrase first used by enslaved children to describe slave-owners with a notorious fondness for sleeping with the women in their family) podcast. Damn that was painful. It was like being taught French by the Foreign Legion (i.e. getting hit until you understand). More on that process, and where to (finally) hear it, very soon.

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They do it for the honey. So will we.

Yesterday I floated the idea of a Sex wiki (which couldn’t really sound less sexy) and have had a few interested responses so far.

Looking at the long list of domain’s I’ve registered, and realizing that as a free resource it’d be smart to use a .org URL, I have chosen SugarHive.org as the home for our hypothetical sex wiki.

Why SugarHive?

• Hive suggests collaboration, community and – under threat, the ability to sting you to death.
• Sugar, of course, suggests the enormous high-resolution picture of me and my pet Tiger, Cringer, which will grace every page.

Hosting adult content will not only take up masses of space, but wll also open SugarHive to all kinds of legal hassle. As I see it SugarHive should be a site about sex, that doesn’t contain sexually explicit images (a bit like SugarBank in that regard.) By banning porn postings at the site itself, we’ll avoid copyright theft issues and improve the quality of what people are posting overall. SugarHive won’t just become a dumping ground for stolen JPEG’s.

We need to decide on a basic site structure. What do you want to see?

An area for ‘Website info’ makes sense, where people can build pages that describe websites and blogs they run, or know about. That should also help keep promotional ‘pollution’ out of subject areas and give the community a chance to comment on sites they know.

It could be an interesting resource. I can imagine a page on a paysite which includes a section on the customer experience written by customers for example – a great spot to visit before you consider buying a membership.

I can also see sex-ed info, fetish info, performer/personality info (amateur and pro), a timeline of online sex (i.e. when sites launches and closed, who did what first etc.), a timeline of sex on film…

As I see it, anything sex related should have a home at SugarHive.

We should also decide which wiki system to use? I am a Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL guy and would love to slot into that. MediaWiki is the obvious choice as it’s behind WikiPedia and well supported. However – Twiki seems simpler and a bit hotter. Any expert opinions out there?

Please leave me comments on this. The level of interest, or lack of it, will determine if SugarHive ever sees the light of day.

Also, if you have a blog and like the SugarHive/sex-wiki idea – link/trackback to this post. The more people who are on-board with this the better, and easier, it’ll be.

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9Rules, so sexless it’s depressing.

Some of you may be familiar with the 9Rules network. It’s a group of blogs who’ve decided they’re great, and have got together to revel in mutual admiration.

If they have meetings, I bet they’re all like, “No seriously – your blog is amaaaazing,” or “You’re such a clear thinker. Why aren’t the corporations listening to bloggers?” Then they all do each other with tofu dildos.

Actually, 9Rules is pretty smart. They have built a network of blogs where quality’s guaranteed. Members swear some sort of blood-oath to share traffic through the central hub, and then benefit from the attention being ’special’ brings.

They recently took on their second wave of blogs (and when I say Second Wave I don’t mean the Arab terrorist group who tried to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, only to be thwarted by the amazingly tenacious Jack Bauer and his comrades at LA’s Counter Terrorist Unit.)

I read a number of blogs by 9Rules members, and there’s nothing adult (or even vaguely sexy) in there at all. That’s a pity – I’ve been looking for decent sexblogs to link too and there’s no easy way to find them.

So here’s my question – if 9Rules aren’t going to get into porn, do you think there’s any demand for a network of quality, no-filler sexblogs? (I do) A blog you could visit to find the best sexblogs online without wading though organic fertilizer? If you do – who should be in it?

(NB: I’m not referring to blogs like Fleshbot and Eros which find sexy stuff online. I mean a blog that would help you find quality sites like Fleshbot and Eros to start with).

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