In 2004 the blog was coming of age.

Hundreds of thousands of people were signing up to use simple self-publishing software that allowed them to keep an online diary.

Not a diary kept in a drawer for the author's eyes only but a diary that could be read by the entire world...

The blogs that consistently attracted massive readerships were the anonymous, confessional sex diaries written by women.

From the Girl with a one track mind, Belle De Jour to Bitchy Jones, these incredibly graphic female sex blogs gave an explicit insight into the secret desires of women, revealing what they really wanted in a way that had never been seen before.

Anonymity ruled back in the heady first days of blogging but since these women were outed, forced into the spotlight by fusty old journalists on a witch hunt, a new breed of out and proud sex bloggers have been created in their place forcing the media to back off and shut up.

Jane Vincent is a "self-proclaimed slut and whore" that has created her own blog, 'Educated Slut', discussing her experiences with sex for pleasure and work. Admittedly she was outed as a prostitute before she decided on the blog (despite the fact that she never actually has full sex with her clients, just a lot of very very odd encounters) and has even started her own sex workers' collective so, she's used to being named and shamed and frankly, doesn't give a damn.

Audacia Ray also has her own blog that talks of her work in the sex industry – 'Waking Vixen'. Yes, it looks like a number of young, feminist, politically active and educated women are beginning to come out of the closet.

But what about your average girl? The ones like us with jobs and families that have no idea what we get up to behind closed doors? Are we proud to share our dirty secrets with the world and be identified by them?

Well yes, there's certainly a few emerging, shrugging off the right to anonymity and coming clean in full glare of the spotlight. Lisa Taylor for example, lays all bare and has no qualms sharing her sexploits in the same breath as discussing packed lunches for her kids and weeding tips.

But, it seems, there are certain rules to follow.

One is that you do not identify the partners with whom you indulge in your intimate affairs with – it is your choice to be out and proud, not theirs. The second is to have parents born in age when technology was thought of as evil and are scared witless by the internet. They are not likely to ever see your blog or believe that you even know how to use the web so idle chatter from gossipmongers won't faze them.

It take a certain sort of girl to say she does what she likes and likes what she does but, I've realised, I'm definitely not one of them. I wish I could be so open and would love to be part of this feminist revolution but I will just quietly support it in my own special way after all, what would my mother say?!