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I woke up this morning to discover that Twitter and the adult blogosphere are afire with news of Google’s latest dick move (I can think of no more polite phrase for it). Yesterday they apparently sent a mass email to all of their Blogger/Blogspot bloggers whose sites are flagged as adult (the ones with the click through warning before you can see the content) saying that they will “strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger” after June 30th (just four days from when they sent the letter).

ErosBlog has the complete email:

Important Update to Adult Content Policy on Blogger

You are receiving this message because you are the admin of a blog hosted on Blogger which is identified to have Adult content.

Please be advised that on June 30th 2013, we will be updating our Content Policy to strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger. After June 30th 2013, we will be enforcing this policy and will remove blogs which are adult in nature and are displaying advertisements to adult websites.

If your adult blog currently has advertisements which are adult in nature, you should remove them as soon as possible as to avoid any potential Terms of Service violation and/or content removals.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

This is HUGE bad news for the spanking blogosphere. It’s unclear how far Google will take “displaying advertisements to adult websites” — but who among us does not link to a spanking pay site from time to time? Does an Amazon affiliate link to a spanking ebook count? There are about fifteen spanking blogs in my sidebar hosted on BlogSpot, and many of them are at risk if they cannot completely overhaul and sanitize their links and banners in the next three days. Do not — I repeat, DO NOT — assume Google will only go after the horrible spammy porn blogs — Google does everything “algorithmically” which means their robot will cue your blog for deletion if it finds even one offending link in a five-year-old post. You can’t expect any advance warning and you can’t expect to appeal the deletion to a human being — Google does not hire humans to do this sort of work. If you host on blogspot.com, take this warning seriously. Can Google’s robots reliably tell the difference between an affiliate link and an unpaid link credit that you put in to a spanking paysite because you were posting one of their pictures? I would not count on it. I would not. What I tell you three times is true: I would not.

What’s more, if you’ve been doing this for awhile you doubtless know there are a ton of old spanking blogs (no longer updated) that linked to you years ago. Those links have been important to your page rank and search engine traffic even if the blog themselves are long dead. Who is going to update those long-dead blogs? Nobody, that’s who. And so many of them will be going away soon. Expect your traffic to decline accordingly.

According to the comments at ErosBlog, the link for backing up your Blogspot blog (so that you could, hopefully, move it to your own domain that you control) is here: Import And Export Blogs. A sex-toy blogger who is on this story has this advice for you, and I would take it word-for-word:

First things first: if you currently have a sex blog on Blogger, go back it up right this instant. Yes, now. Stop reading this, leave it in another tab, go into your Blogger dashboard and export your blog. The .XML file that you get will contain all your posts as well as the comments associated with them, but it won’t be of much use to you until you need to import it somewhere else. Still, GET IT. Also back up the Picasa album containing all your blog’s photos.

That’s vitally important. Once it’s gone, you can’t get it back. If you’ve got the XML file on your hard drive, getting your blog back online is fairly easy for someone who knows how (and if you have to, you could hire that person). Back up your blog, right now. Seriously.

One piece of advice for folks who are moving: consider not moving to another free blogging service. This sort of thing appears to be a trend; if the service you move to allows adult blogs this week, they might not allow them next week. (ErosBlog summarizes this corporate trend away from adult-friendly free services as “The Pornocalypse Comes For Us All.“) I’ve seen a bunch of spanking bloggers talking about moving to WordPress.com or Tumblr, but those are emphatically not adult friendly. Tumblr puts all its adult blogs in an invisible search ghetto, and tends to delete blogs with affiliate links even though the TOS only prohibit blogs deemed “primarily for affiliate purposes” or some such. And this kinky blogger’s bad experience with WordPress.com should be all the warning you need to stay away from them. Get your own domain and your own paid hosting account, people! It doesn’t have to be expensive and it’s the only way to be safe.

See Also:

• Human Raters At Google Rate Spanking Porn "Less Relevant"
• Adult Blogging Tips

Hey, everybody. As many of you know, Bethie runs a pair of spanking-oriented community/dating sites with thousands of members. They’re not free (server costs make that impossible) but they are much cheaper than the big corporate for-profit dating sites that advertise so heavily everywhere, and of course they are focused specifically for folks with spanking interest (whereas most of the big corporate ones are, at best, focused on the broader BDSM community.)

Her big news is that she recently changed her billing options so that she can now take VISA cards! There were a lot of would-be members who only had VISA, and so this has been a priority for quite awhile. If you were waiting for this, or haven’t had a look at the sites at all, now would be a great time to check them out:

SpankSeek: Where Spankos Meet For Fun, Friendship And Spankings!

BottomSeek: A Community For Male Spankees And The People Who Spank Them

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• SpankSeek Turns 500
• Bethie's New Spanking Community Site
• Is It Fun Spanking Boys?
• Spanking Personals For Male Spankees

Here’s a peculiar old whipping illustration for you:

Shall we call him Tarzan Of The Lash?

I’m never happy to see popular press articles about consenting spankings between adults, because most of these reporters seem congenitally unable to understand that what consenting adults agree to do cannot be “domestic abuse”. The big Daily Beast story on Christian Domestic Discipline is no exception, but (aside from reporting an ignorant “it’s sick and abusive” opinion from someone who runs a shelter for abused women but isn’t reported to have ever encountered a spanked woman there) the story is fairly balanced. It even gets to the skepticism that I myself have always harbored about the Christian flavor of domestic discipline; I’ve always felt that DD couples who deny a sexual element to the practice are being less than completely truthful, perhaps even with themselves:

What seems to be the most obvious explanation for CDD, one acknowledged by some domestic discipline advocates not tied to the Christian church, is that the practice is a means to justify the fulfillment of a sexual fetish. On a CDD blog, “Sue” writes, “Boy do I wish more of the women in DD would admit to this. It’s a sexual fetish. There’s nothing wrong with it, but they try to make it so much more than it is.”

But the moral constraints of the church make it difficult for couples to be honest about the sexual nature of their desire, says Paul Byerly, who with his wife runs The Marriage Bed, a site dedicated to sexuality and religion. Byerly, who calls CDD a “distortion of what God intended,” believes that “women, particularly in the Christian church tend to be sexually repressed.” Domestic discipline, he explains, could be “a way around that” — a chance to explore sexual desires while still nominally acting in the name of Jesus.

Still, CDDers themselves reject this pain-for-pleasure explanation. “The pure CDD people don’t go there,” says Vera, who is both in a domestic discipline relationship as well as into sex play. “A lot of folks think of Fifty Shades of Grey — but this is not that,” she says.

See Also:

• Spanking: The Gateway Fetish
• Christian Domestic Discipline
• Domestic Discipline Dynamics
• Domestic Discipline Discussion

It’s usually a bad idea to mock the governess when she has caning rights:

These young ladies clearly have a lot more deportment training ahead of them!

The cartoon is another by Max Safonov.

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• His Switch, Her Tears
• Chalk Marks And Cane Marks
• Punished In The Park
• Thigh Spankings
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If you have been following Pandora Blake’s recent frustrations with her billing services provider over some very petty objections to the content on her Dreams Of Spanking site, here’s her official announcement of the free site called Darker Dreams she’s created to give away the spanking porn the credit card companies won’t let her sell. Apparently you can’t talk about consent on the website where you sell porn, and you can’t fight with rubber swords in your porn, either:

Many commenters have remarked on how tame the scenes CCBill objected to are compared to porn you can find elsewhere on the web. Our silly sword-fighting scenes, for instance, all use fake weapons, such as rubber toy swords or capped fencil foils – and yet CCBill still found the “threat to life” implied by these duelling scenes too “realistic” to be allowed.

I purely love Pandora’s response to this:

Fuck capitalism: I’ll give it all away. Full length video downloads, image galleries, behind the scenes documentaries, associated writings, everything. Plus the comments, the blog posts, the performer bios, all the surrounding context that demonstrates the ethical production and enthusiastic content that went into the making of those scenes, because without that, it’s not representative of what I’m doing.

Free range porn, released into the wild! It’s an exhilarating, liberating prospect. Free economics: the last line of defence against the capitalist censors. If I’m not charging, there’s not a damn thing they can do about it.

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• Bedtime Spanking For Pandora Blake
• Gabrielle Spanking Xena
• The Complexity of Spanking Submission
• Barbarians & Spankings, Oh My!
• Captured & Whipped By Pirates

When you see this many buckled leather straps in play, you know that something is about to be happening where there is potential wiggling that needs to be prevented:

Caning, anybody? Oh, yeah:

Let’s get down to business!

From the most recent update at Device Bondage.

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• A Well-Framed Bottom For Caning
• In Chains For A Caning
• Cropping The Tattooed Lady
• Poke It, Then Cane It
• Rosebud And Red Welts