I remember a time when newspapers were about news.

Flemish newspapers have evolved into something like lifestyle magazines. They write about gastronomy, where to get the best champagne, travel, clothes, fitness and sex. They all have sections where you can read about the sexual antics of their readers.

I have nothing against that. There are articles about sex on this website as well. There will likely be more in the future. I just find it a bit bizarre that almost all Flemish newspapers are doing this now. They have almost become like Playboy, but without the nude pictures and – sadly – without the hard-hitting articles Playboy was known for, at least for a while.

I believe these articles are very popular. Maybe they are among the few articles that actually get read beyond the headline and the intro.

Also on this website the articles about sex are the most read. We don’t have the means to be a full blown newspaper, so we can’t compete with any major publication. We’re doing this on the side of making a living.

We are however considering to start writing mainly about sex, since we do like having readers.

Politically all we want to express is almost always already being expressed by people like Jimmy Dore, Lee Camp, Aaron Maté, Chris Hedges and others. And yes, they are just better at it than we are.

How would anyone interested in politics find his or her way to this obscure website?

The trick would be to write spunky erotic stories – realistic ànd arousing – and to slip in political discussion, via the dialogues between the überhorny, but philosophically inclined characters.

That may be a case of raising the bar, way way way too high. And it would require a much bigger effort. Lately we’ve been slacking on this website, cause almost nobody reads us anyway. That’s just the way things are. It’s incredibly hard to break through the noise. There is a lot of superficial shit out there, but we are also the first to acknowledge there are lots of incredibly creative people out there who make content that is catchier than what we have offered on this site so far.

We hope to grow in the future, but we don’t really know which direction to go in.

It’s rather depressing to write – sort of ok – political stuff and then to be completely ignored and see Twitterati getting loads of attention for repeating the same simple ideas, ad nauseam.

Just an honest musing triggered by seeing yet another Flemish newspaper peddling reports on sexual encounters.

Thoughts very welcome. Preferably without meanness.