Hello Friends & Fans,
I’m not sure if you have noticed any interruption to your irregularly scheduled sexy posts here, but we ran into some technical glitches last week.
The problems arose from trying to install a paywall for select content. Turns out that, despite all the hype of how easy it is to use this software, it’s not really that easy at all! Everything crashed and we weren’t even able to access our own blog for a couple of days!!!
That is, until our knight came to our rescue. I won’t mention his name here, but he’s helped us out of a programming pickle before and he was so generous to come to our aid yet again to help us get the blog up and running again.
It is back (or at least we hope it is) and there are some changes. We’re new at this, so please be patient with us while we get the unwanted kinks out and keep the kinks that you all love to read.
Basically, we are implementing some pay-to-play software and so certain posts will require a $4.99/month subscription fee. Right now, we’re trying to figure out how to be selective with which posts have an admission fee. We really would like to hear your comments on this and let us know if there are any glitches. You can write to us at:
downloladown@gmail.com
In other news, we received the following email yesterday and, in true erotica blogger spirit, said we’d help out. So please read below and contribute if you can.
Many thanks to you all!!!!
Lo & HH
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As you probably know (we haven’t been subtle about it on Twitter), a bunch of erotica and sex writers are getting together in Montreal on Saturday 28th September for Smutathon 2019!
We’ll be writing for 12 hours straight to raise money for the National Network of Abortion Funds, and we need your help. We have a fundraising goal of $5,000, which is super-ambitious but also reflects the passion we have as a group for the protection and extension of abortion rights in the US (and beyond).
We don’t need to tell you how dire the situation is for abortion clinics and other sexual health services in Trump’s America. NNAF is doing incredible work supporting individual funds, providing advocacy support and leadership training, and finding what are often rapid and creative responses to the practical and legislative barriers imposed by politicians across the US.
As a prominent sex blogger and writer, we’re hoping you can help raise awareness of Smutathon both before next Saturday and throughout the event itself by doing some/all of the following:
· Giving us a shout-out on your blog this week, so we can explain our fundraising mission to your readers
· Promoting our fundraising page (https://secure.actblue.com/do
· Following and boosting our Twitter account (@smutathon2019) and website (www.smutathon.com)
· Sharing content on the day – we’ll be writing for 12 hours without a break, and there will be tonnes of great fiction, essays, and personal posts that we’d love people to read
· Getting involved! Maybe you have something you can donate to our sex toy raffle? Maybe you want to write with us next Saturday? Maybe you’re able to give directly to NNAF yourself, or to provide some original content for us to use with our donor base. We’re open to any and all ideas.
We know that our community is neither wealthy nor blessed with the time and bandwidth to say yes to every request. However, we truly believe in the potential of Smutathon to be a force for good, and in the necessity of supporting charities like NNAF – we’d love to have you on board!
Cheers,
The Smutathon Team