The Sex Dream Memo

Memorandum on the Propriety of Sex-Dream Blogging

TO: THE INTERNETS
FROM: PETE HOLIDAY
CC: RACHEL WEHNER
DATE: 2005-05-23
SUBJECT: SEX-DREAM BLOGGING

The world of blogging, having neither a set of widely accepted, rigid style guidelines nor a governing body at times finds itself stepping beyond the pale of what a reasonable person would call acceptible. In fact, there are entire subjects which all but beg to be over done when blogged about. Sex dreams are just such a subject.

It must be noted that blogging about sex dreams is much preferable to blogging about actual sex, as it is quite clear that blogging about a sex dream can be intended to pass along any number of different emotions ranging from humor to pity but blogging about real, in-the-flesh sex can convey only one thing: “I’m dirty slut.” There are, of course, euphemistic ways of conveying such things (both that the author is a dirty slut and that the author had some sort of sexual contact) without actually resorting to blow-by-blow details, but the appropriateness of sex-blogging is beyond the scope of this communiqué.

The official policy on blogging sex dreams, for future reference, is, in general “Don’t. Just don’t.” There are exceptions, of course, mainly for those whose blogs are already very sexual in nature or for those authors that are already known to be dirty sluts. In other situations, one has to consider who might eventually find their blog¹. Furthermore, those authors known to be either a) highly virignal or b) in a ‘dry spell’ need to consider that their sex-dream blogging is going to look more “sad” than “edgy”.

In short, bloggers simply need to keep their sexual escapades (be they real or fantasy) off of their blogs. In addition to just being The Right Thing To Do™ It’s for their own good. So let’s just not do that any more, alright? Good.

 

 

¹ - for those who are new to the concepts of “people are nosey”, “the internet”, or “google knows everything”: the possible list of people who could very potentially find your blog is “everyone.”

Won’t someone think of the children!?