All things considered the reason today has been designated Blogroll Amnesty Day isn’t as important as that there is such a day.

And if you’re not sure what it might be, here’s the idea, as articulated by non-sex blogger Mike of Mike the Mad Biologist

[T]he start of 2008 seems like a good time to have another Blogroll Amnesty Day. If you’re not on my blogroll, and I’m on yours, leave me a link below and I’ll add you (note: racists, creationists, and flat-out weirdos won’t be accepted).

Please put your blog name on one line, and the url on the second line, like so:
Mike the Mad Biologist
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/

or give me a line of html code, like so:
Mike the Mad Biologist

Thanks!

Source: Probably pretty obvious at this point

Ok, technically, I first heard about it from Blue Gal who in turn got it from another non-sex blogger, Stephen Herron of Drinking Liberally in New Milford, who in turn got it from Mike. And me? I was reminded today was the day from a post by M.Yu of the distinctly power-exchange-oriented The Jade Gate.

So! Same deal: If I am on your Blogroll and you notice that you are not on mine, tell me! I will add you. Heck… Add me to yours and I will add you to mine. Just drop a note in comments here.

Couple of things: Unlike Blue Gal, Stephen Herron, and Mike the B who aren’t part of the pink ghetto, as Melissa Gira calls sex bloggers, linking to me can be a bit stigmatizing. I totally get that even though I actually blog mostly about sexuality as it pertains to politics and gender there are quite a few sites that can’t comfortably link to me without rumbling their advertisers and/or colleagues and/or employers and/or partners, children, neighbors, and friends.

That’s ok. My original scheme when I stumbled across this domain name and saw it was available and thought it was too good a name to pass up was to start a totally non-sex oriented media-and-the-first-amendment site and make hay out of how often what would have been entirely innocuous content got firewalled or NannyNetted based on the name alone. But I didn’t do that, choosing instead to tackle sex head on (for what I believe are obvious reasons).

So, all this is preamble to saying how much I appreciate those of you of every blogging “denomination” who do link, quote, and blogroll me. Thank you. I’ll be honored to return the favor.

Note: Speaking of returning the favor, I’ve just added M.Yu’s The Jade Gate since, it turns out, he has me in his blog roll. Who’s next?

• M.Yu’s The Jade Gate
• Marianne’s Indescretion
• Prom Queen Subdued
• Elizaveta Mora’s Vespertine Erotica
• Tara Tainton
• Sungold’s Kittywampus
• Bunny’s Rabbit Gone Wrong
• Connecticut Man1 (why not?)
• R. Hayes’ Fors Clavigera
• Duke Orsineo’s Illyrical Despatches
• Cyrao Q’s Aiming to Arouse
• SnowdropExplodes
• Sugar Mag’s Random Thoughts

There’s still plenty of time…