Strict Julie Switches!

As some of you may have noticed, after almost a decade of blogging and more than 12M pageviews, I changed the banner title of my blog from Strict Julie Spanks! to Strict Julie Spanked! Most of my long-time readers will understand why...

My new reality...

Yes, there's no longer any point denying it, I am now more on the receiving end than on the giving end. Here is how my blog, which reflects my kinky life, has shifted over the years:

Back in the day it was the rare post which had a female subby theme, maybe 5%-10%. In 2016 it started ramping up. That was the year I got so excited by having my friend Tracy give me a paddling (Julie in for a Severe Paddling). There had been some mild subby play leading up to that, but that event is where I got really turned on by relinquishing control, and started getting more and more into it, as you can see by the chart which shows a fairly consistent rise up to around 2/3 of the posts with me being subby and 1/3 me being dommy. I think it's likely to stay around there, not by design, just because that's how I am.

I updated my blog and profile blurb to reflect my more subby-first, switchie status. I also, reluctantly, updated my age to early forties, though admitting only to a mental age of 19! Importantly, I also made the definitive statement that while I am a switch at play, I am also a real-life spanked wife at home. Oh, how writing that brings goose bumps to me!

I decided to make these changes after being inspired by PK Corey's life and works as described in The Work of PK Corey. PK is a woman in her mid sixties, a lifelong spanko who came out of the closet to her husband at age 50, and then just stopped caring who knew after she retired from her job as a schoolteacher and became a full-time writer of spanking fiction. She is still spanked by her husband. PK writes what she wants to read. We exchanged emails, and I was just inspired.

I thought about starting a new blog for subie stuff and keeping the old one for dommie stuff, but I'm pretty far down the one blog path already, and I switch very spontaneously, so why not be unique and be one of the only switchie blogs out there? Hence leaving "Strict" in the title along with "Spanked". A switchie title for a switchie blog.

I've noticed that many bloggers shelve their blogs before ten years, and maybe that's because they lose interest as there is just not that much more for them to say about the topic after ten years of blogging. That would have been true for me had I kept it strictly femdom. But the discovery of femsub was an exciting journey of discovery for me, and you all came along on that with me, and that certainly kept it fresh and sexy for me.

I'm not sure what the name change and acknowledgment of the orientation change will do for pageviews. All of us bloggers are at least a little bit pageview whores, and brand confusion is never a good thing. Already took a bit of a hit when I started writing some of my social commentary. Betwixt and between. Oh well! I figure I need to be honest to myself as a first priority, and people who are interested will drop by and be friends with me.

Thank you all for continuing on this journey with me!

Julie