Around the World in Eighty Lays: An Introduction

I'm absolutely thrilled by the amount of attention this is getting already. When I started this anonymous blog about sex at the world's most famous university, started a Twitter feed pointing everyone to it and offered interviews to the major student papers, I never dreamt it would get this popular! But now a week later, with four followers - that's almost one per post!

But with this level of exposure comes the risk of getting caught out. For example: for the past week, I've had the Daily Express on my doorstep. And, on the occasions when I've taken it in to read, I've realised that they're the kind of paper that would really take an interest.

Of course, by now, questions are flying thick and fast. People say:

"Belle,

Given that you're not an actual prostitute and so don't have a job from which to draw a regular supply of sex tales, don't you see this blog rapidly declining into a tedious collection of Oxbridge stereotypes, in lieu of any actual details of, like, sex?

Don't you think that by insisting you'd never be paid for sex, unlike Belle du Jour, then accepting payment from magazines on the back of this - ie, having lots of sex - you're blurring a whole lot of moral boundaries?

Don't you see a risk that the blog will start to dominate you, and soon when you'll drag a man home for sex, you'll try to tell yourself that it's all for you - but there'll be a nagging pull at the back of your mind telling you that this is for the fans, not you - no, this isn't what you want at all?

What about when he's inside you, and you long just to feel pleasure, but your mind keeps suggesting similies - 'like a horse? No. Like a mattress? No. Like a bear? That'll do. Put that in paragraph 2. Move the semicolon.'

Don't you think that now the glare of media attention has dulled and moved away, it's time to admit that you can't keep this going, that the Oxford name won't just paper over mediocrity, and that there's simply better hobbies one can have? And if not, how are you going to force life into this dead horse - how are you going to keep people interested? What fresh gimmick can you dream up to keep your desperate grip on this retreating limelight?"

Well, if you're thinking the answer to that last one is, 'list each of my various conquests by nationality with a smattering of cultural stereotypes thrown in', you won't be disappointed! More soon!

Belle,

xo