Of money shots, shaved biscuits and sex with snails

Over at Quick Study and Infinite Thought and Crooked Timber, we've all been having a nifty, rambling and remarkably learned conversation about the aesthetics, taxonomy and narrative imperatives of porn. Join in, as they say at swingers' parties, and check out the Nude Maypole Snail Dance or whatever that Lewis Carroll-with-the-lid-off photo is at Infinite Thought.

Not that book/daddy would know anything about all that stuff. But as Scott McLemee has discovered once again, it is a great way to boost reader hits for your website. If you haven't already, see book/daddy on how Instant Post-Structuralist Erection can improve your love life and your website readership.

In fact, amid all of that cross-pollination, one poster claims to have found what may be the ultimate bit of web bait. This is depressing: It's the term, "Japanese schoolgirls."

November 19, 2007 5:08 PM |

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