The Lingerie Addict Says Goodbye

The Lingerie Addict, a weblog the place for greater than 14 years unmentionables weren’t solely talked about, but in addition the topic of considerate consideration, introduced on Sunday that it was ending publication.

Cora Harrington, the weblog’s founder and editor in chief, wrote in a publish that the weblog, which has been devoted solely to intimate attire since its creation, can be closing down operations on the finish of the month.

In her publish, Ms. Harrington cited a altering on-line panorama as one motive for closing up store.

“Many individuals don’t essentially discover data from blogs anymore,” she wrote, including that “the web — notably social platforms — have gotten extra hostile to my subject.”

“It’s a continuing uphill battle,” Ms. Harrington mentioned, “and one I’m more and more uninterested in combating.”

In an interview on Monday, Ms. Harrington mentioned that her content material had these days gotten extra engagement on platforms past the weblog, which she says has not too long ago averaged 75,000 to 80,000 guests a month, in contrast with the lots of of hundreds of month-to-month readers the weblog attracted in years previous.

Ms. Harrington, 37, additionally mentioned that she felt she had modified and grown as an individual since beginning the weblog in her early 20s.

“Fourteen years is a very very long time to run a web site,” she mentioned. “I’m not the identical particular person I used to be then.”

Ms. Harrington began The Lingerie Addict in April 2008 after discovering a ignorance in regards to the ins and outs of lingerie. Past simply housing her informational content material, like opinions, editorials and tutorials, she quickly noticed the platform’s potential as an inclusive nook of the web.

“The Lingerie Addict has all the time been about being a ‘body-snark-free zone’ the place we don’t discuss individuals’s our bodies, don’t decide individuals’s our bodies,” she mentioned. “It’s all the time been about being an inclusive setting for lingerie that’s welcoming to intercourse employees, to trans individuals, to queer individuals, to nonbinary individuals.”

The varied group Ms. Harrington fostered on-line by the weblog continues to be an energetic one, she mentioned. Whereas feedback have slowed on the positioning itself, interactions with and conversations round Ms. Harrington’s content material proceed to flourish on social media.

When she announced the news to her 80,000 followers on Twitter, Ms. Harrington was met with an outpouring of assist and reward for her final almost decade and a half of labor.

“This vocal and visual assist that I’m getting from hundreds of people who find themselves studying my work and have by no means felt the necessity to work together with me however are telling me now that what I did was significant, which means a lot me,” she mentioned.

Tekla Taylor, 31, a digital media supervisor in Alexandria, Va., who has been following the weblog since 2015 and is a member of The Lingerie Addict’s Fb group, expressed appreciation for Ms. Harrington’s work, including that “the archives are going to be a treasure for years to return.”

“As time goes on and the net will get extra fragmented and dominated by algorithmic social media platforms, a person web site or weblog that basically loves its subject material turns into much more significant,” they wrote on Twitter.

Ms. Harrington famous in her Sunday publish, titled “Saying Goodbye to The Lingerie Addict,” that whereas she deliberate to shut the feedback on all posts, the weblog’s archives, store and related Patreon would all stay open.

She hopes to take a while off earlier than starting work on her second e book and, finally, creating area for The Lingerie Addict in her life in a brand new means.

“I don’t wish to go away The Lingerie Addict behind. I don’t need it to return throughout like I’m dropping the whole lot associated to it,” Ms. Harrington mentioned. “The query is, ‘How do I transfer ahead in order that The Lingerie Addict is part of my life and never all?’ And that’s one thing I feel it’s going to take a little bit little bit of time to determine.”