There are 2 axioms I have learned through life and blogging.
1. Sex sells
2. Pain brings in viewers
I’m a numbers guy, which is shocking to me. When writing research papers in grad school, I was far more confident writing qualitative papers (analysis) then quantitative (numbers based). Knowing how my blog is performing, viewership wise, is something that has always interested me.
I have 2 blogs, this one and a much more public one.
Here’s what I’ve learned.
• Posts that have sex as an obvious topic are read, a lot. If there’s even a hint of sexuality within the first two lines, I’m getting triple digit views.
• Posts that show extreme pain early on gets triple digit views.
• Grouchy posts are well received.
• Positive posts are not read.
• posts reporting incredible progress are not read.
I’ll bet you any amount of money that if I put a picture of a lingerie model on this post I’d get the most views ever. Should I put a picture of religious significance, very few looks.
Why does this matter?
It doesn’t matter at all. I found it interesting.
There’s going to be an experiment run with attaching pictures over the posts of today. You’ll know it when you see it.
My Journey Through Sex Addiction 
And here I was trying to figure out what a kitten had to do with sex and pain..lol. But you are correct. My post Dear Porn Star: Please Forgive me is my top read post. It has sex and pain in there of course. But my posts like From One Course To Another where I talk about raising my son differently than I was goes unread.
Crazy how that works out. I think a puppy is next.