One of my new ventures...

So let's see how this goes.

(and, by the way, the tagline--since you can't see it--is: REAL PEOPLE.  REAL SEX.  REAL CHRISTIAN)

I mean what's the point of being a producer with a blog if you can't 'test-drive' your ideas, right?

(and just let me say how mortified my wife is by this idea and by the fact that I've got a blog 

that people actually read which means people are actually going to see this...)

Take a deep breath Niki...

www.christiansex.ca

Is one of my new ventures.

The idea had a simple beginning.

We were doing marriage counseling for a couple in our Church and as part of that session we got to my favorite part--the part about sex.  I found it endlessly fascinating how these peers of mine, folks--like me--raised in a 'sex saturated' society would almost alway get all nervous and skittish when the 'sex talk' came around.

I mean it's not like they didn't think about it.  It's not like (many of them) weren't already having it.  It's not like they didn't want to talk about it.

They just never had.

(at least not in an honestly, openly, non-judgmentally Christian context...)

See, many (if not most) of them were raised by parents who NEVER talked about sex. As a consequence everything they learned about sex they learned from friends and from porn and from trial and error in their teens.

So, back to the couple.

The girl wants to ask a question.  Is real nervous about it.  Won't come out with it until we press her a bit.  Finally she asks the question that's been bugging her...

"Umm, well--ahh.  You know, uhh--what, umm, happens to the--err--'you know'...once you're--ahh...done?"

So painful.

My wife (who's horrified that I'm telling you this) looks her in the eye.

"It drips out of you.  Sometimes for days."

See?

Half o' y'all's bums just went tight and half o' y'all just went; "Exactly!  Why didn't anyone ever tell me that?"

See?

So I had this epiphany the other day while reading the trades.  The article was about the relentless migration of advertising dollars to the internet and I just realized that so much of the work I'm specialized at doing doesn't require a mainstream 'Broadcaster' now that the internet has virtually replaced it (at least for many of our peers).

I mean, Niki and I are pretty 'typical'.  We get the kids to bed.  We put our PJ's on.  We sit downstairs with CNN on in the background and our laptops on our respective laps.  Most of the cutting edge or really interesting stuff we watch, we watch online.

And the reaction to my blog lately and to the site for one of the TV shows I produce is demonstrating to me that I, yea even I, can generate traffic.

Imagine if your domain was christiansex.ca and the content on there was candid interviews like the ones from 'When Harry Met Sally' except that it was all about sex.  Great sex.  Honest sex. Real sex.  

Christian sex.

And imagine if the site was produced by an entertainment company and for entertainment/inspirational purposes and didn't have one particular denominational or dogmatic axe to grind but rather existed simply to inject an honest, healthy, passionate, funny, Christian perspective into the sexuality out there on the web.

Almost every other 'christiansex' extension is a porn site.  Mine will be the only one that's not.

Pretty cool right?

So, I'm looking for reaction.  I'd love to hear what you think.  I'd LOVE (if you're willing) for you to let your social networks know about this post (if you don't mind--I realize that's asking a lot...) to see if I can get some significant feedback.  I'm looking for Christian couples to do the interviews and I'm planning to share revenue with them.  I'm going to start branding and grassroots marketing very soon.

I thought that some of you might want to help.

Hit me.

(no, not Niki.  You.  And with your thoughts, reactions, suggestions...)

Thanks, for real.

T