At first, The Art of Blowjob was all about creating beautiful porn and showing the sensuality of blowjobs, but we realized that the reaction from our members and fans were often ones of longing. While we love creating desire, we saw that many people saw our porn as aspirational, and we wanted to empower them to experience the kind of passion and excitement that they see in our updates. There is a lot that you can learn just by watching an erotic scene unfold on screen, especially with a partner, but we wanted to be more direct. We started up our educational blowjob video series in 2014 to a very positive response. We've been wanting to add another source of information on The Art of Blowjob in addition to the educational updates for some time, but we wanted it to be something of use and something that would serve to prop up education on a more personal level. While it's fairly straightforward to show tips and tricks in short narrated videos, it's a bit harder to get across more complex issues, so we wanted to put together a written series. Since we want to touch on a variety of issues, we decided to call these updates articles, including any non-fiction work to help our audience have fulfilling sexual experiences, rewarding relationships and just generally to get more in touch with their erotic selves. One of our main focuses on the site will be to bridge the gap from our educational series to real world experiences. You can know all about every blowjob technique, tip and trick under the sun and still have no idea how to get or give them in your life. This comes down to communication. We often discuss communication in the context of giving/getting feedback before, after or during a blowjob, but there's a lot of other forms of communication that help relationships, more casual encounters or anything in between. We'll be focusing on many things, including: how to identify and express desires, how to navigate fantasy vs. reality in porn and other sexual media, how to discuss limits and boundaries, how to negotiate differing wants and needs, how to achieve balance of give and take, how to deal with relationship inequalities, how to foster an environment of trust and respect, how to (re)ignite the spark… We could go on forever, we'll be taking suggestions for topics and we'll respond to the need for advice. Another issue we'll be addressing is self-esteem, especially with regards to body image. We'll be looking at issues impacting everyone, though we'll often be zeroing in on problems with men's physical and emotional self-esteem. Masculinity can be quite rigid, particularly with regards to sex and men's bodies. So many guys have anxiety about penis size, circumcision, erections, ejaculation, virility, sexual desires outside the norms of masculinity, living up to expectations of manliness… We want to create a space to talk about that, to take down the barriers that keep men from talking about their vulnerabilities and then build them back up with a realistic and positive view of themselves so that they can go out an live without being encumbered by too many insecurities. We want to help build sexual confidence, as this will foster general confidence as well. People who feel that they have the tools to understand sex and sexuality will be much more able to experience it fully. We'll build on topics tackled in the educational blowjob video series to broaden the discussion and address the subtleties that make it work, why it might not work for everyone and how to contend with it with a partner. We'll also take on other sexual topics, both with regards to blowjobs and in general, so that people have a better understanding of the inter- and intra-personal dynamics so they can gain confidence when exploring them. There'll also be articles about hot topics in sex, sexuality, porn and the sexy sides of our culture. Our articles will comment on them to add depth and nuance to what are sometimes reductive takes on complex issues. It's hard to parse sexual media, so let's do it together. We want to be more than just a website to get off to. We want to engage, inform, inspire and empower you to have the best relationship to sex, with others or with yourself. Come back every week, read what we have to say and then reward yourself with a video or two. After all, learning is fun, but so is masturbation!