Shocks and Trophies

I've not had the best of starts to 2010 with one thing and another. The worst was that one of my sons was assaulted a few days ago. He was attacked by five people who punched him repeatedly, determined to inflict as much damage as possible. Fortunately the police were pretty quickly on scene and those concerned were arrested. He was punched so hard that his lower lip had to be stitched back together. The most shocking aspect of this unprovoked attack is that the five people were women!! Whatever happened to the gentler sex? Or was that always a myth similar to the one that says men don't cry.

On a pleasanter note I found out today that I, or at least my alter ego, Cat (writer of The Jack and Danny Chronicles) has been nominated for a Tea Room discipline fiction Award. That was a surprise, so thank you very, very much to anyone that nominated me. I wrote for a lot of years under the Cat moniker and it's nice to know I'm still remembered.

Gay Blogs Under Attack?

Rumour has it that Blogger/Google or whoever, are taking a leaf out of Amazon's book and launching a blitz on adult gay blogs. Apparently lots of blogs have been subjected to censorship and even closed down for so called policy violations. Fair enough if those blogs are truly guilty of violations, but who is determining exactly what constitutes a policy violation, is it a violation simply to have a blog that has adult gay content? A blog called 'Jockspank' seems to be the latest victim of this gay cull and is currently 'under review.' The owners of Jockspank made it very clear that their content was adult in nature, they also strived to make clear that all models were aged 18 and over and that they did not condone and would not support any under age material or links to such. Jockspank was an excellent resource for discipline aficionados of every persuasion. As well as spanking erotica and fairly straightforward male glamour porn, it had intelligent articles and interviews. In short I found it to be an interesting magazine style blog and I hope it's back soon.