A mystery solved

I read pretty widely, but if I just want a relaxing diversion my go-to genres are mysteries and police procedurals.

I have been puzzling over a mystery related to this blog for a few weeks. Let me give you the clues and see if you can solve it.

Now, to do this, I need to put a word in your mind without writing it down, for if I did that, it would skew any experiment you might want to try. So: many people, particularly light-skinned ones, most famously redheads, have small dots of pigment on their skin. In describing such a person one might say that he or she has... a word for a sprinkling of pigmented dots. And you might refer to one such dot as a… ok, remember that word.

The web service hosting this blog gives me tons of statistics about how people arrive here and where they come from (still trying to figure out my popularity in Egypt). If they follow a link from my story site, that gets counted. If they do a search and follow up a result, I get told what phrase they searched for.

And the most popular search term is…

that word porn

That startled me, since I don’t think of that word porn as an apt description of what I post here. But even stranger: use the site search option to search for that word, and there are no matches.

It doesn’t seem to make any sense at all. A mystery. To make matters even more perplexing: I tried a google search for the phrase, and my patience wore out on result page 25 — no link to here.

Well, just a minute ago, I figured it out — and it does make sense, ultimately.

Any detection fan out there want to try your hand at the case? I will publish the answer in a day or two.

— Frenulum