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Sex Blogs and Diversity

2 March 06

A few days ago the lovely and talented Audacia sent me a couple of ethnorotica-related links. And that got me thinking (dangerous, I know)—where the fuck are all the non-white sex bloggers, at least when it comes to blogs in the English language? I thought, for certain, that a review of Naked Loft Party’s blogroll would turn up at least a few. But no. It’s a sea of lily-white, with maybe a couple exceptions. A cursory review of the blogrolls at the top sex blogs out there revealed more of the same.

The obvious question is why? I know plenty of non-white writers, plenty of non-white kinksters, plenty of non-white people who keep diaries, so why aren’t they, y’know, representing? Are white people, due to whatever sense of privilege they share, more likely to expose themselves in this way? I’m not posing this question merely to be inflammatory; I genuinely want to know.

The general blogosphere’s diversity problem is much discussed of course (it both amuses and terrifies me that Gawker has a special correspondent for brown-people issues), but I dare say the sexblogosphere’s diversity problem is even more pronounced. Okay, so we had the short-lived blogging career of the loathsome and mannish Jessica Cutler, but you know what they say about exceptions that prove the rule. The funny thing is the sex-positive types I know are generally a progressive bunch, so I ask again, what’s the fucking deal here?

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