Libertine: On the Prowl

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree

11:48, 2008-Jul-1 .. Posted in blog stuff .. 2 comments .. Link

The other day I got a curious email from one of the directors of a clearinghouse-type website that dealt with various types of health issues.

I was invited to join this site as a featured blogger for their new sexual health section. The writer of the email told me he'd been searching for the best "medical bloggers" and that he thought I was a "fantastic writer", and that he'd particularly liked my post about the paraplegic groom who'd been denied a church wedding.

I checked out the site and found it was a mainstream site with conventional viewpoints.

Though flattered, I was also extremely puzzled. I am in no way a "medical blogger". The only thing remotely medical I've ever written is to rant about our broken health insurance system. Indeed, the post he cited had only the most tenuous of connections to medical issues, as the focus of the article was not paraplegia, per se, but the unfairness of the Catholic Church.

I also suspected that when he extended his invitation to me that he'd not read any of my posts dealing with sex in any depth. I replied to him, expressing my puzzlement and I made it perfectly clear that I wasn't sure I'd fit in over there, given my decidedly alternative opinions on sexual matters. I told him that my moniker of "Libertine" wasn't just a nickname, but, rather, a description.

He's not replied back, so I guess I have my answer.

Oh, well.

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09:05, 2008-Jul-2 .. Posted by texican
That's a little strange. The medical blogger thing, not the fact that you were invited to join the site. I wonder if whoever saw your blog was just Googling certain medical terms and your post popped up, because it doesn't sound like they actually read it.

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01:27, 2008-Jul-2 .. Posted by littleMissConfused
That is a bit odd. That is why I don't have an e-mail link to my blog. I get enough crap in there with out some one reading my silly blog and sending stuff because of that.