So, Google deleted all my blogs for unspecified reasons relating to their terms and condition. Having read them I was none the wiser and despite an appeal they would not explain the reason. The only thing I can think of is copyright infringement (others are seeing pictures deleted for the same reason), although, as someone said, many of my posts, being in the nature of reviews may have come under the fair use exception. Still, this time I will ensure that I only publish public domain pictures which means those that are produced by artists who died more than seventy years ago. Sadly, this means no more magazine pictorials, no more Pubic Wars, no more pin-up pictures and no more sculpture as, with the latter, the works may be in the public domain but the photographs of them are not. In referring to some of these I will include links to avoid this problem.
As in the case, just over two years ago, when Google threatened to tighten up what it called its 'porn' policy (in which they seem to include all nudes or erotic material, whatever its artistic merit) I was very grateful for the support from my readers, especially those who appealed to Google off their own bat. I am also very grateful to the lovely Scarlett Knight (not so sure about the blue hair, it makes you look like a cast member of Space: 1999) for publicising my new blogs, set up using my friend Angela's dormant account. Most of my initial traffic has been via Scarlett's links.
Links to all my new blogs are in the right sidebar as well as here and I will use this blog as my main one, highlighting new posts.
My recollections of my interaction with ladies since the early nineteen seventies have attracted many kind comments but I thought I had lost them as I wrote them direct onto Blogger not in Word first. Fortunately one of my readers, SB, had saved them. I am currently re-posting them although this process takes some time as I have to reformat them from the pdf versions line by line. I am picking up on some of my very many typos and spelling mistakes too, I hope! Getting up to date will take another weeks or so and then I can continue with new chronicles.
My erotic adventure story, set before the Great War has now all been re-posted, as I had the originals in Word. I have even posted two brand new chapters this week and there will be several more to come, to finish part one of the story, in the next month. Part two will take us on a long diversion down to Lord Hoxton's debauched birthday weekend celebrations at his Hampshire home.
I have found several sources for my old posts on this blog but can only do art or early photography ones. All the pictures have to be found on my system (not always as easy as it should be) so these can take some time too. There will be some new posts in due course. I know that most people preferred my Pubic Wars and magazine posts but I actually enjoyed the art ones most, In the future, I am going to experiment with a post by email, perhaps, for magazine pictorials, although the pictures will have to be smaller. I may have to use DropBox. I am writing to those people who wanted to subscribe to Venus Observations, two and a half years ago to, see if they might be interested in this.
I have started to put up some old posts on this too and will be adding more in the future, including more new ones.
Venus in Motion and Cavegirls in Fur Bikinis
Sadly, there is now way to continue with these due to copyright issues.
Finally, I was amused to see that a post in Venus Observations was listed as a source in an academic book on The Neo-Victorian Villain! Some of my real work is quoted in academic papers but this is a first for one of my blogs, I think!
