Some years ago, in an attempt to generate traffic to the blog, I posted links and subject lines to attract the attention of people who were looking for photos from the "Nude Women of Curling" calendar. [see here, here, and here, for example].
It worked. Traffic to the blog is up this week during the Olympic curling, and about half the traffic seems to be from people searching for nude photos of female curlers.
When I saw the traffic was up, I was hoping it was because people were interested in my views on economics or on higher education or something in my recent posts.
Nope.
And traffic at the curling blog is high, too, despite the fact that I haven't posted anything there for a long time. Same reason.
Apparently sex sells (as if we didn't already know that).