Blogs and Blogging

Years ago - now it seems like lifetimes - I started my first blog. It was pretty darn dull. Mostly a record of my CD addiction and the music I was compulsively buying. I’d already created a small website that was sort of a ten or so page personal ad: something to refer people who responded to my assorted profiles and personal ads around the web. So I decided to blog about the search. (Eventually I would have three: vanilla, kink bottom, kink top).

The best thing about the early blog was the online friends and acquaintance I made. Finding a lover I let the blog lapse. A few months later I started blogging about the relationship. Slowly the scope expanded.

Now I blog an awful lot, perhaps too much.

What do I get out of blogging about my sexuality?

Getting to know some nice folks - some of them very remarkable people - has been a continuing reward.

An ongoing delight is that in writing about my past I’ve come to recall much that I’d forgotten.

And in writing I slowly discover the truth about many things. Or at least new editions of personal truths. Some of those are rejected or refined: it appears to be a perpetual process.

• Fun
• Tedious
• Can’t think of anything to say (one of the purposes of this site is to help you)

• Keep it fresh with frequent new entries
• Write erratically or rarely
• Have really let the blog lapse

• Benefited
• Wasted your time
• Made yourself vulnerable
• Broadened your social circle
• Learned about yourself

• Exposed
• Violated
• Secure and safe

• Feel too lazy
• Don’t want the exposure
• Lack of time
• Feel you have nothing worth saying
• Others intimidate you because they seem so good at it

Do you wish you used a different blogging platform?

Do you wish you had, plan to get your own domain (or already have that)?

What goals do you have for your blog?

• Intimate sharing
• Expertise shared
• The pictures