New Companion Blog: Sounds Kinky-er

I’ve recently created a second blog, one intended to house posts with sexual and other “adult” content.  It is called Sounds Kinky-er, and you can find it here:

http://soundskinkyer.blogspot.com

Am I bowing to censorship demands here?  Am I making my blog over into something “family friendly”.  Um, no.  Look at the title of this blog: that isn’t going to change.  (In fact, no one has complained or commented on this.  It’s all my own decision.)

What I have found over the past year is that there are some sex-related and other edgy topics that I want to be able to write about, but which don’t fit comfortably next to posts about comic book movies and complaints about product design and thoughts about politics.  You could say that those don’t belong in the same blog as one another, too, but my real concern has been with someone visiting the blog via Facebook or Google, poking around, and getting a text-based eyeful of stuff that maybe wasn’t appropriate for them.

So I have found myself either jumping through hoops to making some content non-viewable (parts of my trip reports were colored to match the background, so you had to select the text to read what I wrote), and I have even refrained from writing about some topics.  Opening a new blog specifically intended for such topics — the new blog has a “This has adult content” front page warning for any visitor, which is enough to quell my concerns — will in theory free me to write on those subjects with more freedom and with less second-guessing of my content and word choices.

(But the new blog is not going to be loaded up with pics of naughty bits and perverse sex acts.  Sorry.  And it’s only going to be for the sex and similar sort of “adult” content.  Posts which deal with topics appropriate to adult-level maturity — including many non-sexual gay items — will stay right here.)

If you visit the companion blog now, you’ll find a number of posts which were originally on this site, ported over there.  As I add them there (I still have another couple dozen to go through at this point, including some trip reports), I’m zapping them here, leaving just the title and a redirect link.  A year from now, I’ll probably purge the stub posts from here, too.

I will still be posting links to new blog posts for both blogs to Facebook and other places, however.  I don’t want to make it harder for people to find my posts, just to make them more conscious of when the posts have adult content and able to opt out.