Ladies and gentlemen: I am delighted to inform you that we are now officially classed as perverts. A dear friend was travelling in Yemen recently, and tried to access our blog. And, guess what? We’re banned! (So’s Informed Consent, but other spanking blogs were freely accessible).

Much as I disapprove of censorship – and regret that all those Yemeni spankos out there are deprived of our kinky thoughts – there’s something in me that’s actually quite fascinated that a blog that doesn’t mention sex or include naughty photos (too often!) can fall foul of the authorities. But I’m now thinking of getting T-shirts printed: “The Spanking Writers – officially the perviest spanking blog”.

This follows an amusing exercise a couple of weeks back, when I clicked onto a site that rated websites for the nature of their content, rather like movies – U, 18 and so on. It rated us as PG – “Parental Guidance” – which initially disappointed me as implying that our content is too tame. And then I realised – the rating engine was making a remarkable perceptive comment on our subject matter.

PS it later transpires that we’re banned in Dubai, too. I suggested to Haron that we might ask readers to let us know of any other places that ban us – but she sagely pointed out that if we’re banned there, then people won’t get to read this post!