Horizontal Dance
I know it’s going to be hard to beat yesterday’s post, but I will certainly try.
Whenever you enter the website game there is usually at least one person telling you that the only way you can make quick money is through gambling, prescription drugs or porn. That’s why you get so many of those nice comment spams on your sites. Quick money stopped being intriguing a long time ago because it didn’t take long for me to understand you really have to work for your money (no shit right?).
Then I came across Fleshbot (NSFW) and was intrigued to find that an owner of other blogs (Nick Denton) and respected businessman (to some and not others) would start a site about porn. In a way, Fleshbot took the high road when discussing porn by adding humor and taking away the sleazy feeling some get from it. I was intrigued.
For the longest time I told people I was going to start a porn blog (adult blog, sex blog, babe blog, whatever) and most of the time people’s responses were along the lines of wondering why I hadn’t started one already. Long story short, on June 1 I launched Horizontal Dance (NSFW) to see what I could do in the forbidden industry.
Horizontal Dance is a mix of sexlog and babelog. I didn’t want to simply go the Fleshbot route of talking about porn and whatever else, I also wanted to post pictures of women that I liked because well, I like women. No, I do not take any of the pictures, I simply link to other galleries.
So how is it going? I’m not rich, but that was never the goal. I am certainly having fun with it and that was definitely my primary goal. Could it be better? Of course it could and I am sure it will improve as time goes by and I get a better feel of how the arena where my grandmother is going to tell my mother and kick my ass works. Is it part of 9rules? Of course not and it never will be. Are any 9rules team members involved? Nope, and I would never ask them to be either.
When I wrote an entry last week on Work Boxers I talked about what I am learning from porn, but I didn’t link to the site. In the comments Mr. Anonymous (you have to love when people show the courage to use their real names…) did some research (wasn’t very hard) and found the site I was referring to. So instead of causing a lot of commotion I decided to talk about it on my most open site (hell I could’ve just deleted the comment I guess).
In any case if that’s your thing I hope you enjoy it, if it isn’t stick with the 9rules Network, much better content anyways. If you want to write for it then just let me know. Might be the first group blog in that niche (no Fleshbot doesn’t count).
Hey, whatever floats your boat, or lifts… OK, wait, nevermind.
So you mean to say that you actually surf around to find links?
By Martin on July 21, 2005 12:24 pm
As someone with a degree of experience in the adult space (though new to blogging) I think you’ve made an excellent start.
The subtext for ‘get into porn, gambling or drugs’ is ‘drugs are sold to gesperate people’, ‘gamblers are addicts’ and ‘everyone in porn’s a moron’.
it’s not (100%) true. People normally think that porn is easy, forgetting that Amazon continues to patent ‘innovations’ the adult web had a decade ago and that there’s no single area with more competition.
More philisophically - porn is a ‘pure’ web play. Normally what’s being sold exists only online. Other sites and business’ use the web to deliver products or services that exist offline.
As I spend more time working on the web, that difference is becoming clearer. It makes thing harder (as there’s no excuse, no ‘ the website’s rubbish but the product’s great’ because the site is the product).
The rewards are greater too.
Kudos,
Sam.
By Sam Sugar on July 21, 2005 6:12 pm
Thanks for doing your part to the social downfall of America (and the world). *unsubscribe*
By Marcus on July 30, 2005 1:55 pm
So posting pictures of women posing by themselves constitutes a social downfall in American society? I never knew that. I thought it would have been the garbage on TV and drugs on the streets or maybe the porn that degrades them.
Now I know better. Thanks Marcus.
If you honestly believe that a site like this contributes to any downfall then your mind is really in the wrong place and you are living in the wrong world.
By Scrivs on August 1, 2005 12:55 pm
You know I’m feeling like this right now after reading that comment: If it offends you don’t read it. I’m sure whitespace doesn’t offend you. Why would someone unsubscribe to one site and stop visiting because of another?
It’s like me saying I hate Bud Light so I am going to boycott beer. Get your priorities crooked. God forbid Paul, who is 24 (I think), would want to look at naked women.
I assume that Marcus by your comment you are either a complete prude or too religious for your own good. I’m not going to go into my thoughts on the 4th branch of the government…but what truly is important about the concept of religion is that acceptance thing. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean you can’t accept it.
By Ryan Latham on August 2, 2005 10:52 pm
good layout and ideas
my site is http://www.rudekiss.com
By becka on September 7, 2005 11:56 am