Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Man with a One Track Mind....

In my case, rather boringly, the thing on my mind is of course Tonbridge. Why what else did you think it might be?! Last night rather late was a really cheeky and entertaining programme on Channel 4 about sex bloggers, I think it was called Sex in the Naughties. I must admit to discovering the blog of one of these some time ago, having read about it in a newspaper. In fact Girl with a One Track Mind has been a link on Tonbridge blog almost from day one. I didn't realise that Abbey Lee (that's not her real name) had pretty much started the whole craze for sex blogging by her own online diaries. As she explained, they are pretty filthy, to say the least, but they are only on the sort of subject that is talked about by career girls in wine bars all over London, as other towns up and down the country. All she did was make it public, ok very public. Much of the programme was about whether or not she should have been able to stay anonymous; her cover was blown by the national press, who gave us all the usual spin about it being in the national interest to do so. Personally I think she takes the risk and would be naive to think that the press wouldn't come after her and her family if she had become hot news. Her site has now become quite tame next to some of the others featuring online diaries of call girls, fetishists, fem doms, you name it. If you really must have a look at them all then follow the links from her blog, which features her thoughts on last night's documentary on her latest posting. At the end of the programme I ended up saying good on you girl to gwaotm for her forthright views and her sticking one finger up to convention on the subject of female sexuality. But, as I'm finding out to a much lesser extent on this blog, it's a lot easier to be cutting, brash and blunt,when no one knows who you are....

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