Okay, so she was single and played the field. So what?! The fact was that she had it all – looks, a shape that her walk only accentuated, personality that could shift gears to suit the terrain of her companion’s mindspace and most importantly, she made no bones about being available – no strings! That she was good in bed was a foregone conclusion, but what bothered most of the guys that experienced her excellence was that she seemed so detached when the soiree was over and done with. They made all attempts to get back for more, but usually found that her attention was elsewhere and no amount of attempts to re-kindle the relationship bore fruit. She seemed like a ‘one night stand’ specialist.
But to digress for a moment – or to be more precise – to get to the crux of the intention of this number, a bit of an explanation: We’ve come up with posts that discuss and seek views on religion, politics, music, metaphysics, the morons in charge of governing us, the environment, Public Service, fiction, faction and other stuff – some of them, issues we think may have a bearing on our lives and state of the country. But for the most part, except for the handful of regulars, the only posts where the numbers soared have been ones where the title suggested either some personality known to our little blogosphere, or some suggestion of the profane. So what gives?
And so this was posted at the risk of pissing off a lot of folk who were attracted by its title and the opening lines – all I’m trying to do is put Mia’s theory to the test that the word ‘sex’ draws readers of blogs like bluebottles to shit. I’m sure some other bloggers have also made this point before, but Java just had to check it out for himself. So let’s see how it goes. And for those of you who expected some raunchy stuff, or maybe how to ‘get some’, or hope for some titillation – sorry bout dat!
I guess this phenomenon is not limited to Sri Lanka, so the question remains: What is it about sex that draws (in this context) readers to blogs like bluebottles to shit?
Any ideas???
And if you want to get back to the story started in the first paragraph, see https://javajones.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/and-who-can-argue-with-that/
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March 11, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Dili
Its SEX! no matter what the caste or creed, no matter what class or whatever other trivial imaginary social division, the one thing that unites all homo sapiens is a desire (expressed or unexpressed) for sex.
Somewhere in everyone’s head there’s something saying “go forth and multiply”. “spread the good gene” and so forth which means we just go after sex. Of course the fact that over the past few decades the (for want of a better word) “glorifying” of sex by media and whatnot might have had an effect in people being ever more intrigued and curious about the subject. I suspect that Hefner fellow and that lovely mansion he has might have something to do with it 😛
After being told through family, society and religion that we should stay away from sex and then being bombarded by all forms and variations of sex and sexy stuff from the rest of the world, its only natural we go after it. After all we always do what we are told NOT to do 🙂
And lets just get to the bottom of this. Java, isn’t it just the most fun you’ll ever have?? 😀
Isn’t it as simple, and as complicated, as that?
March 11, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Ian Selvarajah
Never forget that “Sex Sells”
I’ve also often wondered the same thing as I notice any blog title with the word “sex” or women always ends up in Kottu’s top posts. I was about to do something similar, but you’ve beat me to it! Let us know how your experiment turns out! 😉
March 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm
javajones
Dili – Sex is great – no argument there. What I was trying to figure out was about the attraction-factor that (for instance) a blog title has, simply by referring to it. After all, you don’t get off on reading a post about it surely?? Or even a personal encounter being described? I actually skipped past Mia’s post and only read it after tracking back from her comment on mine. I tend to skip stuff like that now (unless it is by one of the bloggers that I read regularly), since it is for the most part either misleading or not really worth spending the time on. So I guessed that there are a whole lot of folk out there who do not discriminate, but just go with the urge. Will be an interesting study you think?
Ian – Will do.
March 11, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Dili
I think, I agree, I applaud. 😀 I was trying to say what I thought was the reason behind our preoccupation with sex and therefore the massive hits on posts with sex in the title.
Speaking of which, how about publishing a hit count on this every so many hours/days?? Id love to see the results…
March 11, 2008 at 7:33 pm
chaarmax
Like Dili I’m interested to know how much of hype it has created compared to your avg post. I’m surprised that although it might have attracted loads of misguided clicks only a few have left comments..
I my self enjoy free hits from google from ppl searching for sri lankan sex.. and land here.
March 12, 2008 at 12:44 am
javajones
Dili
Chaarmax
Ian
Surprisingly, the previous post ‘This is love’, garnered nearly three times as many readers as ‘Sex’ did on the first day – and that was only around the 100 mark, so that gives us some food for thought.
Chaarmax – Comparisons? Started in Sept. 2006 and the ‘total views’ today stands at 20,581, which doesn’t make for much I’m sure. I find, however, that lots of old stuff is being read on a regular basis. For instance, there were 18 different posts read yesterday by various folk, and 83 different ones have been read in the past 30 days.
I’m wondering how the rest of you do? I’m sure that heavyweights like Indi, David Blacker, Ravana, RD, Darwin and Co., have huge numbers happening – judging just from the numbers of comments.
March 12, 2008 at 7:53 am
Mia
Hmm….. I was itching to write another post of the carnal variety but thought I mustn’t forget this is still SL and people could get shocked by such subjects written especially by a mother. If a man wrote something like that it would be a different matter. But a woman? Hell no!
So had to refrain, with difficulty of course. My last post is still attracting good many readers.
March 12, 2008 at 8:02 am
RD
Well Java I don’t pay that much attention to my stats these days, but I have observed that posts about sex, girls or blogging always seem to get up on the kottu hitlists.
I’ve never quite got my head around which posts of my own will get a lot of readers and which ones won’t. It’s a mystery to me!
March 12, 2008 at 8:41 am
javajones
Oh c’mon Mia – do it! This is not just ‘Sri Lanka’ – it’s much more. And why the role–play assignments? Don’t be so hungup on the ‘woman’ title. Do yo thang.
Looking forward to it!
Cheers!
Hey RD – Yo don need to, maan – dey be up dere anyways.
What mystery? The thing about your posts (I think!) is that they are pretty much the ‘pimped-up diary’ you describe your blog to be, so most readers enjoy your style and checking up on your experiences – hence the ‘regulars’ and those that happen by – and stay. Keep on keepin on, bro!
March 12, 2008 at 10:35 am
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March 12, 2008 at 11:02 am
Dili
err… “….role–play assignments?” ??? 😛
March 12, 2008 at 11:03 am
Darwin
Just checked, I don’t notice a jump in stats when I write about sex or something naughty. It all remains at more or less the same volume of traffic which indicates that I have a few loyal readers that read my blog regardless of the topic of discussion.
I guess people like reading posts about sex because it’s a bit vicarious isnt it?
March 12, 2008 at 11:05 am
Nishadha
Sex or anything related to sex is good link bait , problem with testing with topics like these is you tend to loose readers. Its alright if you don’t want to expand your blog but if you want more readers this is a no no. What I would have done is give little analysis of sort of Mia’s post so although the reader is tricked you would have written something related to it.And I wouldn’t have mentioned this was a test as well 🙂 .
March 12, 2008 at 11:57 am
javajones
Darwin – that’s probably because you are not ‘out there’ on kottu anymore for all to check out the headline
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Vicarious? I guess – for most – maybe
Nishada – There’s not too many readers to lose! The ones that do get turned on by my stuff will probably be clicking on – because that’s how it works. The ones that were ‘tricked’ – if they can dig the concept they will understand the purpose. The ones who take offense and the truly frustrated ones – oh well – that’s just how it goes!
March 12, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Theena
I am yet to write a post with ‘sex’ on the title but I continue to recieve traffic for ‘Chennai fucking’ and ‘Good tamil sex fuck’.
Google works in mysterious ways.
March 12, 2008 at 1:52 pm
javajones
Theena – wonder what the connection / link could be? There must be SOMETHING, surely?!!! Would be interesting to find out.
March 12, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Ian Selvarajah
Thanks for the update! Fun to see that this has generated some discussion as well!! 🙂
Keep up the good blogging! I don’t comment often, because I’m not a literary artist, but I do read your stuff! Cheers!
March 12, 2008 at 4:23 pm
javajones
Thanks Ian. Update – 37 yesterday and 73 today for this – up to now. The ‘This is love???’ post got 126 up till now. Hard to say what that indicates yet!
Keep on readin!
March 12, 2008 at 5:01 pm
poetlost
It’s Google telling them that I am a “Good tamil sex fuck”.
March 12, 2008 at 5:16 pm
javajones
Theena – so are you? Or is it only when you’re in Chennai??
March 13, 2008 at 3:45 am
chaarmax
Theena : Where does the traffic drop? A particular post? or your Blog it self? If it’s a post.. then go through the post carefully. There must be something you missed out. Or like Java says.. you probably do it in Chennai.. 🙂
March 13, 2008 at 6:17 am
Theena
Java: Shit, man, I don’t want to blow my own trumpet.
Chaarmax: It leads to my post on Shakti in Chennai, one that was written in utter frustration at having missed the band’s performance despite being in the same city. Ergo, there’s liberal usage of ‘fuck’ and its derivatives.
March 13, 2008 at 6:20 am
Theena
I just realized that ‘blowing’ and ‘trumpet’ are likely to be misconstrued in the context of this discussion. 😀
March 13, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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March 14, 2008 at 11:50 am
Nishadha
I wasn’t talking about your loyal readers , those are the one who visit your blog often and trusts you and know that you write good stuff , i was talking more about new visitors the ones who haven’t being with this blog might thing you write nothing more than juicy topics
March 14, 2008 at 12:02 pm
javajones
Thanks Nishada, but I guess the ones that get turned off by just the one post don’t deserve any better.
What to do?
Cheers!
March 16, 2008 at 3:16 am
Gallicissa
Love your analogy ‘bluebottles to shit’. Off topic completely; it really works, doesn’t it?
March 16, 2008 at 6:13 am
javajones
Gallicissa – sure does!
March 22, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Pan/Thanatos
One thing I’ve noticed while browsing the blog-o-sphere… most blogs talking about sex are by women, and a good portion of comments come from men.
It seems like in many of these cases, the men look at it as another way to flirt. And what better outlet than a girl that’s being candid about it.
Just an observation.