"In the past months I have spoken with people at Playboy and Fleshbot about properties like that of..."

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In the past months I have spoken with people at Playboy and Fleshbot about properties like that of NakedCity, tossing around the incredible paradox posed by sex on the internet. The masses can't resist sex. Any story about sex on any publication goes through the roof with views. Sex sells, goes the tired saying, and when you look at it this way, it does.

But make a property devoted solely to sex and you find yourself in the precarious situation of being completely unable to show serious financial reward for your efforts. Sex, apparently, sells everything except advertising space and any hope of a decent search ranking.

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Walk of Shame? Baby, I Strut | Sex and the 405

Anaiis Flox writes about the Village Voice shuttering the blog Naked City - which for the folks who've known me a while may recall I edited from April - August 2008. 

I wrote two posts in October 2009 that are worth revisiting in this instance:

The End of the Sex Writer?
Commerce, Activism, and the Frivolous World of Sex