Thank you.
I want to write about how I’m on the list of sex bloggers that Kinkly released at the beginning of this month. And about how I’m holding strong at #3 on their ranked overall list — not the annual one, but their database that calculates popularity. And about how this particular year I’m also on their Reader’s Choice list and on their erotica list and on their queer list. And those last two, I come in at number one.
They’ve been putting out this list for six years, so it isn’t new to me to be on it. I saw the results get posted, saw some chatter about it on social media, tweeted about it, emailed a few things about it, and then kept going. Honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to it. But about a week later, it kind of hit me. Wait … this site is ranked number one? In both the erotica category and the queer category? They’re saying that Sugarbutch is the best queer sex blog on the internet? And the best erotica blog?
What?!
Well … Thank you.
I think I want to write this, here, just to let myself sit in the discomfort of acknowledging that for a little bit longer. We don’t usually celebrate our wins enough, you know? And when it hit me, I really wanted to ensure that I “took it in,” somehow. Whatever that means, however you do that.
Sugarbutch is thirteen and a half years old, started in spring 2006 when I was 27. I have grown with it; it has grown with me. Pretty much all the major mistakes of my late twenties & all through my thirties are on here, archived. What I’m doing with it right now is my favorite version of it that has been yet — and, I still don’t know where it’ll go next. I have some ideas, but no set plan; just steering in a direction, aiming for a horizon, and I’ll fine-tune the plan as I go along. The internet is a completely different place now than it was when I started it. If I was starting a project now, this isn’t what I would do. So. I don’t know what’s next, but I’m chewing on it.
The patrons of Sugarbutch know I’ve been chewing on this — this is probably the fourth or fifth time I’ve written about it, and I still don’t have answers. I’m in a transition, though I think that transition is at least five years long, so it’s not immediate.
Being on the Kinkly list again, and being recognized as at the top of the class for what I do, and not being lumped in to all the general sex toy review blogs but being recognized for the particular skills and viewpoint that I bring, is just exhilarating. Thrilling. Gratifying. I’m so grateful. I’m so appreciative that you all keep reading and listening and being curious about the kinds of things I like to study and talk and write about.
So, back to where I started: thank you.
And because sex toy review blogs dominate the sex blog world these days, here are the two supplemental lists from Kinkly focusing on queer and erotica blogs. Check ’em out.
Top Erotica Blogs of 2019
- Sugarbutch Chronicles @MrSexsmith
- Tabitha Rayne @TabithaErotica
- A Shared Wife @ASharedWife
- On Queer Street@OnQueerStreet
- Scandarella @ella_scandal
- Cara_Sutra @TheCaraSutra
- Musings of a Smut Queen
- Dr. J. Author @DoctorJAuthor
- Anne Stagg @AnneStaggWrites
- Love, Violet@fireandhoney
Top LGBTQ Blogs of 2019
- Sugarbutch Chronicles @MrSexsmith
- Submissive Feminist @SubFeminist
- On Queer Street@OnQueerStreet
- Betty Butch @betty_butch
- The Big Gay Review @thebiggayreview
- Mx Nillin @MxNillin
- Queer Earthling @threatganglia00
- Anne Stagg @AnneStaggWrites
- Hedonish @hedonish
- Viva La Sexy @VivaLaSexyBlog
If you’re into this, you might also like to take a look at the queer sex blog list I compiled — this features sex blogs with a lot of queer erotica, if not all erotica.
