…. I do realize that a weblog is something that one should update once a day, ideally, and I seem to be on more of a once-per-year schedule, which is faintly ridiculous. However, I’m posting once again to announce the launch of a new feature I’ve been working on for the past while.

We used to have a photo gallery on this site, which was a popular feature, but a.) I didn’t update it often, and b.) it never seemed to me like it had a lot to do with blogging. Well, there are many blogs out there now that feature nothing but great photos of nudes every day – so it occurred to me, why not aggregate pictures from these posts the same way we aggregate headlines?

It’s up and running now. Check out our babelog aggregator and let me know what you think.

And one of these days, hopefully soon, I’ll get back to posting here more regularly. Watch this space.

Are your roses already starting to wilt and fade? Is that huge box of candy already half-gone, and down to mostly stickychewy caramels anyway? Is post-Valentine’s Regret already setting in?

Not to worry. We didn’t forget about you here at SexBlogs.org. Even though we’ve neglected you for about a year (sorry about that, by the way), we’re rolling out a whole suite of so-brand-spanking-new-we’re-still-spanking-them features just in time for the 14th:

• A new “tagcloud” for recent weblog posts, so you can see what the current hot topics are in the blogs we’re reading, right here at the top of our weblog page

• A new SexBlogs Directory, with about 300 weblogs listed so far, and we’ll be adding more, too. Broken down conveniently by category just for you.
• And of course, you can add your blog to the Directory, too.

. . . . Don’t be shy – what did you get us?

…. Well, for one month. If you’re female. But if that suits you, then Lustlab wants you bad:
We’re looking for a wanton hussy to write a new column. Can you write lurid tales of your Seattle sex adventures? If you can, we want you to keep an exclusive Lustlab blog for one month. Each month will feature a new hussy.
The best part? You get paid $50 week for one month.

Hello again, everyone. Sorry about the downtime – we were having some problems with the CGI scripts we’d written to run sexblogs.org, so we decided to join the 21st century instead and install WordPress instead. All of the content from the old weblog (minus the comments, unfortunately – sorry about that) has been transferred over to the new system.

What does this mean for you? Well, you can now search the weblog, view full archives by date, or subscribe to our RSS feed. It should also (*crosses fingers*) mean less comment-spam for us to clean up. And, most importantly, the page loads a hell of a lot faster now.

Welcome back. Let me know if you encounter any problems.

Microsoft has launched their new blogging tool, MSN Spaces, but some users are finding it a little too, well, restrictive …. As Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing asks in MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs, “If you can’t speak freely on a blog, what’s the point of having one?”

Using my existing MSN Passport account, I attempted to create a number of blogs, one after the other. The results of which titles passed and which were banned may surprise you – or at least generate a few Beavis-and-Butthead snorkles.

“Butt Sex is Awesome” and, my personal favorite, “Dick, Balls, Boobies, Goddammit,” all made it through, but “Pornography and The Law” and “Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov” are, apparently, too rude for school. I think I’ll pass on this particular blogging service.

So for a while now one of my favorite non-sex-related web hangouts has been del.icio.us, the “a social bookmarks manager” that lets users post links and tag them with keywords.

It was head-smackingly retro-obvious to me, then, that someone start a site like this:

porn-a-licious uses a similar engine to bring you a “collaborative pornographic collection.” Check it out and you’ll see what I mean.

Daze Reader turned four years old today. That’s quite a while for any weblog to be around. Happy birthday, Daze Reader! You don’t look a day over three.

In other sex blog news, I gather Susannah Breslin of the late lamented Reverse Cowgirl blog is finally back on the web at www.invisiblecowgirl.com. Excellent.

You’ve probably seen this linked elsewhere by now, but something about this site charms the hell out of me and I’ve got to post it:

So get ready to do it for your country. You need to register to vote soon if you’re going to do it; the deadline here in Washington is this Saturday, October 2nd. And check out the Votergasm site – they have a great sense of humor, some very amusing photos, and a cute little comic about it all.

Now here’s a lovely little bit of high weirdness from the Village Voice: they’ve dug up an old volume called Sammy Tubbs, the Boy Doctor, and Sponsie, the Troublesome Monkey. What is it, you might well ask? Simple:

…. Yeah. Complete with “line drawings of genitals, of Rand McNally road-map accuracy,” ringing endorsements of phrenology and miscegenation, and – wait for it – a singing vagina. All this brought to you by the man who gave the world such birth-control methods as the “electro-magnetic preventive machine” and fish bladder condoms.

I’m sure you all know that in ancient times, Olympic athletes competed in the nude. I don’t watch the Olympics much myself, but I’d probably find them a hell of a lot more interesting if that were still true.

If you’re wondering what that would be like, then go check out these videos at the page that asks the musical question, Does It Get Any Better Than Naked Gymnasts? They feature Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Milosovici, who were thrown off the Romanian Olympic Team for posing nude.

There’s the vault, the uneven bars, the floor exercise, the balance beam …. all of it somehow startlingly beautiful, really, to see the nude form in motion like this.