Damn lies and statistics
For someone who is an accountant by trade, I’m completely hopeless at keeping an eye on our Fluffytek statistics. So it’s been about four or five months or so since we actually bothered to look at the bloggie stats, number of hits, regular readers and so forth. But I was feeling blue and at a bit of a loose end today, and I finally decided to crunch the numbers.
Holy crap! Where did all the people come from?! No I don’t believe in quoting figures, but wowee, do we love our lurkers or what?! Thank you little lurkers, from the heart of our bottoms. You certainly know how to cheer up a dodgy ol’ model. What I found particularly funny was the obvious huge spike in viewing figures after the day I posted my dodgy porn shots (sorry, I mean “tasteful art.” Of course it was. Whatever else could it be?) So, fellow nude bloggers, if you really want to boost those flagging viewing figures, nothing gives your blog that added "zing" quite like an extreme-close-up graphic shot of an old model’s nether regions.
I’ve also been collecting personal opinions from other female readers with whom I chat. Kind of a survey about what readers like and dislike about the blog. Now please note that the survey is not of experienced professional models, I’ve instead been talking to average everyday ladies (some of whom are friends of mine), who just read and look at the piccies for fun, usually with their hubbies, and then want to try out the same sort of experimental photography at home.
It seems that my frequent apologies for our slightly more edgy pictures have also been unnecessary. Not only do women have a much wider comfort zone for erotic art (which is obviously NOT porn because it’s b+w, of course) than you would ever have believed possible, but it appears many of our female readers look at this blog just before they toddle off to bed with their beloved one. i.e. this highly tasteful art nude blog is actually contributing to people’s nightly steamy sessions in the boudoir. Now this might be obvious to many of you, but it’s news to us I’m afraid. Of course we naturally assumed that men read the blog for the big boobies, but it seems the ladies read it for the (rather infrequent) steamy bits. In actual fact, several confessed to really loving the images of some of the more adventurous models (not of me, thank goodness!) posing in a more…erm…seductive manner, so to speak.
Now you’ll appreciate that Rich is in seventh heaven about this. He loves women, pretty much all of them if we’re being completely honest. His greatest pleasure is making women happy. So the idea of there being a high female bloggie demand for tasteful-yet-slightly-raunchier pictures of women groping themselves, has really made our Mr Fluffy’s day.
He wants you all to know that he’ll do his utmost to…er…spice up your love-lives by dedicating himself 100 percent to shooting steamier pictures this year…He says that “tasteful erotic” must be his new calling. “Gotta keep the readers happy!” he says.
Thanks for that folks. I mean…thank you SO MUCH for giving my husband the perfect excuse to shoot dodgy porn in the name of art.
And that’s the last time I ever do a bloggie survey.
"Statistics can be used as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination."
Andrew Lang
The delightful Amy, our first "higher" model. Apparently not our last.
Holy crap! Where did all the people come from?! No I don’t believe in quoting figures, but wowee, do we love our lurkers or what?! Thank you little lurkers, from the heart of our bottoms. You certainly know how to cheer up a dodgy ol’ model. What I found particularly funny was the obvious huge spike in viewing figures after the day I posted my dodgy porn shots (sorry, I mean “tasteful art.” Of course it was. Whatever else could it be?) So, fellow nude bloggers, if you really want to boost those flagging viewing figures, nothing gives your blog that added "zing" quite like an extreme-close-up graphic shot of an old model’s nether regions.
I’ve also been collecting personal opinions from other female readers with whom I chat. Kind of a survey about what readers like and dislike about the blog. Now please note that the survey is not of experienced professional models, I’ve instead been talking to average everyday ladies (some of whom are friends of mine), who just read and look at the piccies for fun, usually with their hubbies, and then want to try out the same sort of experimental photography at home.
It seems that my frequent apologies for our slightly more edgy pictures have also been unnecessary. Not only do women have a much wider comfort zone for erotic art (which is obviously NOT porn because it’s b+w, of course) than you would ever have believed possible, but it appears many of our female readers look at this blog just before they toddle off to bed with their beloved one. i.e. this highly tasteful art nude blog is actually contributing to people’s nightly steamy sessions in the boudoir. Now this might be obvious to many of you, but it’s news to us I’m afraid. Of course we naturally assumed that men read the blog for the big boobies, but it seems the ladies read it for the (rather infrequent) steamy bits. In actual fact, several confessed to really loving the images of some of the more adventurous models (not of me, thank goodness!) posing in a more…erm…seductive manner, so to speak.
Now you’ll appreciate that Rich is in seventh heaven about this. He loves women, pretty much all of them if we’re being completely honest. His greatest pleasure is making women happy. So the idea of there being a high female bloggie demand for tasteful-yet-slightly-raunchier pictures of women groping themselves, has really made our Mr Fluffy’s day.
He wants you all to know that he’ll do his utmost to…er…spice up your love-lives by dedicating himself 100 percent to shooting steamier pictures this year…He says that “tasteful erotic” must be his new calling. “Gotta keep the readers happy!” he says.
Thanks for that folks. I mean…thank you SO MUCH for giving my husband the perfect excuse to shoot dodgy porn in the name of art.
And that’s the last time I ever do a bloggie survey.
"Statistics can be used as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination."
Andrew Lang
The delightful Amy, our first "higher" model. Apparently not our last.
posted by Lin at 5:36 PM
5 Comments:
Interestingly, there is apparently no spinoff effect. My stats showed no significant difference on 2/1, when that "dodgy" posting was made. On the other hand, I had a spike on 2/8 for no discernible reason. To quote my favorite Shakespeare in Love character, "It's a mystery."
And, yes, I'm thinking about posting "Explicit Cords 4," just to see if the same thing occurs here with my rather modest daily readership.
My rule of thumb is people are quick ti bitch about what they dislike, so no news is good news. So if no one complained out the dodgey pics', oh I mean B&W fine arts prints then they like it. ;)
Oh Ya - Now we're talk'n.
A great pose. A beautiful smile with rich full lips and erect nipples. Made my day, no, evening it's definitely dark here in Chicago. You know you gotta look up from the screen once in a while.
And why stop the surveys. Rich was looking for "something" with his photography and art. Well it looks like you gave him a new direction. That's good, now he has something he can sink his teeth in...no, not good ..something that can get him excited....no... something that can get his juices flo...no not good either....something that can let him take his creative vision to a higher level. Whew.
As for your dodgy porn shots - Told ya were art at that post. Why the surprise women enjoy them. It seems to me that I heard once that more women rent porn than men. There was a good story in Focus magazine this month about Ruth Bernhard. Here is some excerpts that I think pertain to your post. The time frame is late 30's to 50's
"I felt that so many artists treated the female form badly, like it was an object that was tied up with their own sexual desires. I wanted to show the female form as filled with grace."
While enthusiastically agreeing that her nudes are sensual, Ruth maintains that her work is not sexual in nature. " I want all my photographs to be sensuous, whether they are glasses, or a pot, or a nude person, because I want them to be pleasing and exciting to the eye"
"I found a symmetry and beauty in the human form. Yet there are those who thought it was wrong for me to show a nude person. And I said to them all, That means the Lord made a terrible mistake when we were born nude. They did not like it, but it was the truth. But there are those people who will always find something wrong in the most innocent things. Why Edward Weston's still lifes were thought of as erotic. And I think there are very many highly exciting still lifes. But it depends on who is looking. There is no picture that is not influenced by the onlooker. One person can look at sea shell or a pepper as pornography and another person can look at a beautiful woman without clothes as a work of art. The distinction has very little to do with the picture in front of them, it is in the mind of the viewer."
So make them more edgy and let us see them and let each of us view them with what ever baggage we each carry.
Hope this wasn't to long.
D.L. Wood
Great news about the traffic. There are some blogs I have found over the last few months that should be required reading. Thanks to Lela for pointing me to yours and to you and Mr Fluffy for your wonderful insight into things.
Always,
David
David, glad to see you here at last. I've been very partial to your blog for a while now - good wisdom. I'd be beating down your door for coffee and a shoot if I lived near you.
Stephen I think my "spike" was largely due to the gratuitous horror effect, you know the "Holy cow! Look what she posted!" reaction. Your photographs, on the other hand, are way more subtle (and tasteful). Ooh, I love the explicit cords shots. I shall look forward to those.
Mr Wood, your posts are NEVER too long, and they are always gripping. We were hoping for a suitably witty response, and of course we weren't disappointed. Now I'll have to try and get hold of Focus magazine.
Consuming or not, you need your own blog, my dear. You'd have an awful lot of readers, you know.
(No I'm not going to give up nagging you about that. I recognise writing talent when I see it.)
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