Years ago, when I started this blog, I had told myself that it does not matter, who reads my blog or if someone reads or not. I had told myself, I write for myself.
Then I found a widget for a "Hits counter" and I added it to my blog. Every time, I opened my blog, often I found myself checking how many persons had visted it and seeing the number of visits gave me a kick. I thought, yes, people do come here to read what I write, so I must be good.
Then a few months ago, I discovered Google analytics, a way to check, how many persons from which parts of the world came to my blog and what were they reading. And discovering this has delfated my ego a bit.
I found that new posts get 10-15 visits for a day, but there are a few posts on my blog that get get daily visits of 10-15 persons, people coming mostly through the search engines, and all these persons are looking for things connected with sex and sexuality. Many persons come looking for images in these posts about sex and models. The most popular posts are:
New Italian sex symbol is a cow?
Sonagachi prostitute and the yellow turbaned sarpanch
Sexuality in Pelagio Pelagi collection
Defining human sexualities
Sex and hypocrisy
Sex and the gods
Hiding the body
Italian sex symbols
I am no prude, and I think that sex is wonderful and an important part of our lives. Yet, to find that out of about 200 posts that I have written, all that can get readers are these few posts about sexuality (actually most of them are about art, sexual identities, sexual repression, and not explicitly about sex) does not feel very nice.
Anyway, I think that knowing what sells, what brings people, corrupts. I find myself thinking that perhaps I should write more such posts, so that more people come to read my blog, even while knowing that this is hogwash, people looking for sex are not likely to glance at any of the more serious stuff.
A sobering thought! What do you say?
