Friday, February 27, 2015

Google backs down....

Apparently Google has gotten flooded with negative feedback on their recent "ban on porn" stance:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-backtracks-on-explicit-blogger-content-ban/
Google has reversed the decision to ban explicit sexual content on Blogger.

On Friday, in an update by Social Product Support Manager Jessica Pelegio on Google's Product Forums, the tech giant said in light of feedback and concern relating to the "retroactive enforcement of the new policy," which would impact on bloggers who have held accounts for over 10 years, Google has reversed its decision to ban explicit content entirely from the network.
In addition, Pelegio said the reversal was due in part to the potential "negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities."
Instead, Google will "step up enforcement" around an existing policy which prohibits commercial porn.
Earlier this week, the online search giant informed users of the Blogger network who ran blogs behind an "adult content warning" page that all adult blogs would be removed from the public eye on March 23, 2015, leaving access only granted to registered users. The notice to Bloggers behind the "adult" door read:
"In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or presented where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.

The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the blog will be able to see the content we've made private."

In order to prevent their blogs from being removed from the public arena, users were told to delete "sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video." According to ZDNet's Violet Blue, blogs under the "adult" label are wide-ranging, and include LGBT diaries, transgender activists, romance book writers, sex toy reviewers, art nude photographers and sex news blogs, among others.
Therefore, should Google have gone ahead with the ban, it would not only be "standard" adult blogs which faced removal -- but a wide variety of community members and functions.
Google says that blog owners should continue to mark blogs which contain explicit content as "adult" so they can be placed behind a suitable "adult content" warning on the network.

Can't say I'm disappointed...or surprised, LOL.

Monday, February 23, 2015

New Blogger Policy...

So got this e-mail tonight:
Dear Blogger User,

We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content Policy that may affect your account.

In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.

The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the blog will be able to see the content we've made private.

Our records indicate that your account may be affected by this policy change. Please refrain from creating new content that would violate this policy. Also, we ask that you make any necessary changes to your existing blog to comply as soon as possible, so that you won't experience any interruptions in service. You may also choose to create an archive of your content via Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/blogger).

For more information, please read here (https://support.google.com/blogger?p=policy_update).

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
 Now I've tried to keep images that are "explicit" only linked to and such, so we'll see how it goes...but I may have to start looking at other blogging sites in the future.  First they're going to crack down on images, then probably other "sexually explicit" content...which erotica undoubtedly would fall under.  I have a feeling it's only a matter of time...

I've been looking at WordPress and even hosting my own site, but so far Blogger has served my purposes, so who knows.

Time will tell, but forewarned is forearmed and will just have to see what happens...

Sunday, February 22, 2015

2015 Teaser 10 - Galactic Spy

This story has been my first attempt at a long-term story.  Neither Annie nor Lapdancing were ever intended to be as long as they have become.  In fact, Lapdancing started off as simply a single chapter with no plans to continue.

But this story has been a long term personal project of mine, and is very near and dear to my heart.  I have completely deleted it at one point, only to rewrite it all again.  I hope to someday finish is and post it in its entirety, not leaking out a chapter at a time like my other stories.

It takes after Spacegirl and other Sci-Fi female plots.

The story involves Christine Walker, a young woman who recently lost both her parents and grandmother.  Being without support, she has had to quit college and look for a job, answering a vague job that did not state what was involved.

Interviewing for the job, she was told she was hired, and still not knowing what the job was, was led further into the building to discover everything she had known was wrong.  The universe was a vast place filled with alien beings, and earth was one of the more underdeveloped worlds.

She also learned that for some reason, alien beings were attracted to human women.  For hundreds of years they had been coming to earth to kidnap women for the galactic sex trade.

Because of this and other offenses, a galactic agency was formed to "police" the universe, although rarely have humans been offered a position.

Without spoiling much of the first part, that's it in a nutshell, so here is the teaser...completely asexual, but hopefully you'll enjoy it nonetheless!



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Update, News, and shift in priorities...

I haven't posted in a while, but a lot of things have been happening on the backend of real life and I wanted to share a couple of them.

First and foremost, I still plan to release the last few teasers this week.  I don't have an ETA but I want them all done and posted by the end of the weekend, so keep an eye out on that.

Secondly, one of the reasons I've been busy has been my 3D Graphics obsession/hobby.  I know many of you have privately contacted me on my FB name to see my work, and appreciate all the kind comments.  Apparently the work has not been in vain because I have been contacted by a 3D Graphics promotional group to join them.  It is not a monetary position, but I work on commissions in terms of getting the products I use in my images for free by the vendors.  They pay the group to create images advertising and spotlighting their works, give us their items, and we make the images.  They are then advertised all over the interwebz for that product.

I'm very excited.  One of my major stipulations was I did not want this to become a "job" and be pressured into making content.  I have seen way too many artists do this very same thing and suddenly they disappear from the art scene because all they are doing are promo images.  And as time goes by, their artwork dwindles to exactly the same thing over and over and over falling into a rut doing just promos instead of actual art.  This group is not pressuring me, and even if I only produce one piece a month they will be happy...so I'm looking forward not only to the work, but the actual exposure such advertising will bring!

Finally some other exciting news in the terms of erotica.  As many of you know who have stayed with me all this time, one of my goals is eventually to illustrate my stories and sell them online.  Imagine an illustrated version of Lapdancing Girlfriend where you yourself can see my version of Diamond battling Mr. DeWight for her sexual domination?  Much of it has been a factor of time, incentive, and plain ignorance at how to go about that type of thing.

Well, the first step in that journey has begun!  One of my stories is going to be illustrated!  I have been contacted by an artist (I'll leave their identity unkown unless they want to announce it) to put to image one of my stories.  Oddly, it is not one of my well-known works, but actually one of my "yet to be finished" stories--they have read the teaser and are extremely interested in putting to comic/storybook Lifeguard Gets Wet, as well as the possibility of other chapters in that storyline.

So as I mentioned in the title, my priorities are shifting slightly.  I will be working mostly on Lifeguard to get the story out by May.  I know, I know, everybody who knows me is screaming "OMG, he said he would never give an ETA and set a date for a release again!"  LOL.  I burned myself out on Lapdancing 05 as many of you know trying to get it out at a specific time, and this is the same type of thing.  But the difference here is I will be paid for the work...money talks, hehehe.

So this past weekend and the upcoming weekends I will be working on the story of Penny, the young rich Southern belle who gets caught up in downtown Atlanta lifeguarding for the common man.

This is not simply an illustration of the story, like what I did with George Taskers Brandi Vavoom story, this will be putting the entire chapter into a storyboard/comic type presentation, so it can stand on its own as an illustrated story.  I am basically the plot-writer, and although will have some input on the scenes and such, once everything is done, the illustrations will belong to the artist to post where and how he wants.

One of the biggest things this will accomplish is getting my work known to another audience.  If people like the storyboard so much, they'll hopefully go and read the actual story.  And if they like that, they will read others.  The more the merrier.

The other thing this will do is get my head wrapped around actually moving forward with my illustration idea.  I hope the set timeline will get me more used to deadlines, as well as getting more stories out quicker.  I know last year was a disappointment to people in that I published NOTHING.  This year I promise will be different...and the first published story I will do will become Lifeguard.

That does not mean I won't be working on my other stories.  I always need a bit of change in writing so will undoubtedly work on my three main stories still on my agenda:  Lapdancing 06, Extenuating Circumstances, and What's in a Name.  Following that, Annie will get some long-overdue love.  That will be hopefully FIVE releases this year, and hopefully more...but we'll see.

Anyways, I am really excited to enter this partnership and promise good things to come!  Stay tuned for further information, as well as the remaining teasers that are long overdue!

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Teaser 2015 09 - Skyrim and the Journey of Cerise 03 - Whiterun

This is probably another of the most anticipated teasers...my Skyrim story.

This story has garnished a different following from that of both Annie and Lapdancing, and is without a doubt one of the most asked for sequels to be posted.  Although I have Chapters 03 (Whiterun) and 04 (Ivarstead) written, I still need to format the screenshots and insert the images before they can be posted...something that is a long and arduous process  :/

But at least there's this teaser, hehehe.

Our protagonist has arrived in Whiterun and has met with The Companions and offered to become one of them.  So we now join her in her first night at Jorrvaskr...



Teaser 2015 08 - Sister Cassandra

Sister Cassandra is a working title...I'm not sure whether that will be the final title or not.  As there are only a few pages written, I did not pull a random selection.  This is the very beginning, going through the preface and about 50% of what I've written thus far.

Where the story goes, I'm not yet certain, LOL...but the idea is in outline form and I'm hoping it to be sort of a fantasy/sci-fi type story...so hope it sparks some interest!

Teaser 2015 07 - Lifeguard Gets Wet

One thing these teasers are doing, is refreshing me with all the outstanding stories I have, LOL.  It's a quick way for me to edit various parts, but not focus on anything in particular, which is sort of what I need right now.  Although I don't necessarily have writer's block on what I am doing with Extenuating Circumstances, What's in a Name, and Lapdancing 06, I still need to distance my thoughts a bit so I can then focus on one of them...and these teasers are giving me that distancing.

This next teaser is one I started a while ago based upon a Literotica forum idea.  It is about a snooty Southern rich girl who is being punished by her well-to-do father and family by not being able to go on the annual summer vacation to The Hamptons.  The story starts out with the father catching his youngest of three daughters making out with a waiter at her debutant party.

Because she wants to grovel with the common folk beneath her family's station, the father decides she will instead have to get a summer job and live like the middle and lower class she seems to fancy.  As such, he sends her off to her former nanny in south Atlanta, to stay with her and find a job and realize how good she has it.

Our protagaonist, Penny, is overjoyed to spend time with her nanny, "Aunt Regina," an elderly large black woman who never took any of her father's shit.  Although the former nanny feels sorry for the young woman, she believe her father is correct in making her work the summer and finds a job as a lifeguard for her, as Penny was on the swim team in high school.

But first she must take lifeguard lessons...so this teaser starts off as she heads to her first day of training...


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

2015 Teaser 06 - Lapdancing Girlfriend Ch. 06

Probably the most anticipated teaser, LOL...I finally gave up editing the last quarter of this, so you may notice a change of style from the first three-quarters to the last part...but I got as tired of waiting to finish it as you probably did for me to do so, hehehe.

This is about mid-way into the chapter...that's all I'm saying so you'll have to figure out what's going on based on the other teasers I've given in the past, but I think you'll start to see some changes in Diamond's thinking in regards to all the sex she's being subjected to...

Enjoy!